"If you read the diaries and private literature of the past it completely confirms that this division of gay and straight - with maybe a bisexual compartment - really only happened at the time of the trial of Oscar Wilde."Richard Mason interviewed in The Evening Standard.
It's astonishing how often ahistorical pseudo-intellectual absolute nonsense like this is trotted out - and goes unchallenged.
Here's historian Rictor Norton on The Myth Of The Modern Homosexual.
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