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Ernest Hemingway's Sexuality Remains a Subject of Speculation Decades After His Death
When Ernest Hemingway died, he left behind literary works that would be read, acknowledged, and examined for years. And, although most still respect him for his work, others still have curiosities about Hemingway's sexuality and whether he was, in fact, queer. Hemingway himself never openly identified as gay during his life, but for some scholars, the proof was in many of his books.
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While it's never a good notion to speculate about someone's sexuality, Hemingway's life and reputed personality paved the way for many to wonder about him long after his death. The PBS documentary Hemingway explores his personal life and relationships, of which he had many. Now, people have even more questions about him.
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Was Ernest Hemingway gay?
Hemingway never "came out," in any sense of the phrase, but there are still many who assume he might have been gay, or simply identified as having been sexuality fluid. Qu
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F. Scott Fitzgerald, the literary wizard behind The Great Gatsby and Tender Is the Night, was married to a woman named Zelda (a talented painter and penner in her own right).
The couple’s relationship in the best of times could have been defined as intoxicating. They were the power couple of the roaring twenties with larger-than-life personalities, brilliant artistic talents and a joint fondness for throwing lavish parties that shook whatever city they were calling home.
But, in the worst of times, their affair was horrendously toxic, riddled with mutual infidelity, knock-down drag-out fights, extreme envy, alcoholism and low blows.
Literally.
During one of these bouts of the latter, Zelda said something to Scott that derailed him –– so much so that he consulted his friend and contemporary at the time, Ernest Hemingway.
In A Moveable Feast, Hemingway writes of the encounter.
At the time, the two were sitting in a Parisian cafe enjoying a cherry tart and a glass of wine when Fitzgerald confided in him…
“Zelda said that Hem and Scott I just finished a book about the life of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald called &#;Z.&#; It was interesting. Zelda&#;s hatred for Hemingway came across clamorous and clear. I know that it&#;s historically true. However, there&#;s a claim that Hemingway came on to her, which didn&#;t strike me as true based on all that I&#;ve peruse and Hem&#;s feelings toward/against her. And there&#;s another portion in which she wonders if her husband, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Hemingway were closet homosexuals who had an attraction to each other. I don&#;t know that much about F. Scott Fitzgerald, but there&#;s not anything in the volumes that I&#;ve study about Hemingway and his past that would even slightly recommend that. I&#;ve read all of the hypotheses that Hemingway went ultra-macho to compensate for gay feelings. I don&#;t see that but everyone can have an opinion. Those comments aside, I found that I had empathy for Zelda&#;s plight and her frustration in her life with F. Scott Fitzgerald. I also couldn&#;t help comparing Fitzgerald, of cou Ernest Hemingway and his three sons with blue marlin on the docks of Bimini, in The Bahamas. 20 July 20, Bullfight-lover. Giant game hunter. Deep sea fisher. Brawler. Boxer. Drinker. War hero. Ladies' male. Even for his moment, Ernest Hemingway was masculinity in hyperbole. The outsized writer of stripped-back prose was also, a recent documentary argues, an explorer of gender fluidity in the bedroom – both in his literature and his life. At a cultural moment which favours simplistic interpretations of iconic figures as villains or heroes, American filmmakers Ken Burns and Lynn Novick muddy the waters of the fallen literary star in Hemingway, their non-hagiographic, six-hour examination of the contradiction between the myth and the man. “For us it's about making things more complex,” Burns tells me, on a notify from his home in Walpole, New Hampshire. “Hemingway is monstrous at times and there's never a moment in the motion picture where we let him off the hook.” The writer’s epic and, ultimately, tragic life allowed him to create lit
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