Lawrence of Arabia

 He was gay but was he homosexual? 

"I loved you, so I drew these tides of men into my hands and wrote my will across the sky in stars

To gain you Freedom, the seven-pillared worthy house, that your eyes might be shining for me, When I came."

Lawrence of Arabia was born on this day in 1888.  The homoerotic passage above is from Seven Pillars of Wisdom, an autobiography by T. E. Lawrence.

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