So much extraordinary talent has come from the gay community and bisexuals over the course of history; Socrates, Plato ,da Vinci ,Shakespeare, Michelangelo, Proust, Walt Whitman.............and on and on ( same with lesbians). Whitman, that wild Bohemian, during the Civil War,witnessed large scale homosexuality amongst the soldiers in the battlefield( he toured many of those sites while the war was raging).He wondered if there was a link between homosexuality and democracy. He coined the word, " interwetting ", if you were wondering.