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	Benjamin Britten: Ripe for Reassesment? - http://www.musicweb.uk.net/classrev/2001/Sept01/Britten_Brewer.htm A survey of the musical output of the composer, with reflections on his sexuality.
	Maria Louise Pool (1841-1898) - http://www.burrows.com/poolbio.html Excerpts from a biography of the lesbian New England writer, unusually frank considering it was published in 1899.
	Baron Wilhelm Von Gloeden (1856-1931) - http://vongloedengayhistory.free.fr/ Incisive overview of the life and art of the pioneering German gay photographer, his lifelong affair with his favorite model, and the destruction of much of his collection at the hands of Benito Mussolini's fascists.
	Jane Harrison (1850-1928) - http://www.knittingcircle.org.uk/janeharrison.html Brief biography of Jane Harrison, British classical scholar and professor of archeology, and her lesbian love affair with one of her students, Hope Mirrlees (1887-1978).
	William Rufus de Vane King (1786-1853) - http://www.geocities.com/boybluetoo/rufey.html William Rufus King, Vice President of the United States and homosexual lover of President James Buchanan.

	Fabian S. Woodley - http://www.freewebs.com/ganymedes/ A tribute to a poet of the 1890-1930 'Uranian' movement. Includes all the poems from 'A Crown of Friendship'.
	Sophocles (497-406 BCE) - http://www.androphile.org/preview/Library/Biographies/Sophocles Short bio of the famous Athenian playwright, highlighting his gay affairs.
	Harmodius and Aristogiton - http://www.androphile.org/preview/Library/History/Harmodius The story of the pair of homosexual lovers from ancient Athens who were credited with the overthrow of the tyranny and the establishment of the democracy.
	Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-1768) - http://www.androphile.org/preview/Library/Biographies/Winckelmann/gayhistory/index.htm Detailed biography of homosexual writer and art critic Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-1768), illustrated with portraits of him.

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