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But along with political activists and social revolutionaries, there were a number of entertainers who, in the decades surrounding the rebellion, brought a clear, if often exaggerated, gay presence into American homes. Most did not “come out” officially, but there was no need.
Although the lines from Shakespeare concern the mutual love between the speaker -- Polixenes, King of Bohemia; and Leontes, King of Sicilia -- when both were boys, Duvert's "When Jonathan Died" shows that a "boy eternal" can be any age.