And yet those of us who think he might actually have been interested in men are the "gossipy sensationalists,"
Ha, yes. That's a very good summary of the contortions historians went through to come up wit any other explanation than "gay". And not just historians. I mentioned that indignant comment to the online interview with a modern Fritz biographer where the commenter goes "no OLD FRITZ WAS NOT GAY AND NOR WERE ANY OF HIS BROTHERS ALL AUSTRIAN SLANDER SPREAD BY VOLTAIRE NO PRUSSIAN ROYAL WAS EVER GAY SO THERE!"
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Re: Crackfic
Date: 2019-11-09 06:05 am (UTC)And yet those of us who think he might actually have been interested in men are the "gossipy sensationalists,"
Ha, yes. That's a very good summary of the contortions historians went through to come up wit any other explanation than "gay". And not just historians. I mentioned that indignant comment to the online interview with a modern Fritz biographer where the commenter goes "no OLD FRITZ WAS NOT GAY AND NOR WERE ANY OF HIS BROTHERS ALL AUSTRIAN SLANDER SPREAD BY VOLTAIRE NO PRUSSIAN ROYAL WAS EVER GAY SO THERE!"