As any culture critic who is not a total philistine will tell you, Leonardo da Vinci was gay. Michelangelo? One look at his David gives him away. Socrates, Plato, Aristotle? Gay, gay, gay. Or maybe bi, or these days pre-trans. But still gay. Sappho of Lesbos, the original Sapphic Lesbian, wrote poetry about the beauty of women. Ipso facto, gay. As for Homer’s Achilles and his—ahem.