I think it's a matter of how much, how often. Shakespeare was arguably gay, or gay on Tuesdays. Marlowe was gay every day of the week. Shakespeare sounds like a Tory, Marlowe is surely a leftie. But these things do not define their art . Auden wrote a couple of love poems everybody knows. But you don't have to be gay to like them. Auden started left, ended right. But we lovers of his poetry don't care.
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