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Public
Scandals Part 2 is the second installment in a three-part series. Use these
links to view Part 1
or Part 3. |
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Pope
Julius III
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 Henry Cowell
(1897-1965) was an important musical innovator who sought to create an
ultramodern style that synthesized Western, Asian, and African music.
His career was severely damaged when he was convicted and imprisoned
for having sex with a seventeen-year-old male. |
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Jérôme Duquesnoy
(1602-1654) was one of the most renowned sculptors of the seventeenth
century, but for decades after his death he was best known for his
execution for sodomy. |
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 Philipp zu Eulenburg
(1857-1921) was a political advisor and favorite of Kaiser Wilhelm II
of Germany. Eulenburg's involvement with a circle of homosexual men led
to public scandal and his estrangement from the Kaiser. |
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 Barney Frank
(b. 1940), an openly gay Democratic congressman from Massachusetts,
was first elected
in 1980. He was beset by scandal in 1989 when the
Washington Times revealed that his male housekeeper was a convicted
felon and operated a prostitution ring while working for the
congressman. Frank survived the scandal and continues to represent the
Fourth Congressional District of Massachusetts. |
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 King Gustav V of
Sweden (1858-1950) was the last Swedish king to exert direct
power over his government. After his death, Swedes were shocked to
learn that Gustav was bisexual and that the royal family paid an
enormous sum to one of his male lovers in a cover-up. |
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 Pope Joan
was said to have lived in the ninth century. She was thought to have
been a woman who lived as a man in order to rise in the church
hierarchy to eventually become Pope John VIII. The story captured the
imaginations of Europeans for hundreds of years. |
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Pope Julius III
(1487-1555) appointed Innocenzo, his fifteen-year-old male lover, to
church office and eventually named him cardinal creating one of the
most notorious homosexual scandals in the history of the
papacy. |
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 Friedrich Alfred Krupp
(1854-1902), heir to the German armament company, was accused of
betraying his birthright by pursuing homosexual pleasures in the south
of Italy. After the scandal became public, Krupp died under
circumstances that remain mysterious. |
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 Jean-Baptiste
Lully (1632-1687), a composer who served as Master of the
King's Music under Louis XIV of France, had an immense impact on opera
throughout Europe. After an affair with a male "music page" was
exposed, Lully was expelled from the court. |
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