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"In all I read about him, Thoreau never really became more than the wooden icon who tramped the woods and wrote brilliant essays. Eternity may not the chance repeat, But I must tread my single way alone, In sad remembrance that we once did meet, And know that bliss irrevocably gone.

For many years afterward, Concord folk viewed Henry Thoreau with suspicion. Henry David Thoreau Famed writer Henry David Thoreau, known for Walden () and A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers () and many other writings was possibly a member of the LGBTQ community.

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Wrote Marylynne Diggs in The Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage: “Biographers remain undecided about Thoreau’s sexuality. Edward rowed back to town for help, and Henry ran through the woods to call for assistance, but then observed the progress of the fire from Fairhaven Cliff while waiting for more help to arrive.

There had been no rain for weeks, and a spark from their fire set the dry grass ablaze. But he was a living, breathing, gay man who yearned for love " A few bold scholars have explored the mystery of Henry David Thoreau's love life, but author John Schuyler Bishop has now written a novel about it, appropriately titled Thoreau in Love.

Briefly returning home to Concord, he soon returned to California and joined the Gold Rush. There are many passages in which Thoreau notes with approval the physiques of men and boys whom he encounters, with never a mention of women.

“Let every sheep keep its skin,” said he.

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Edward was five and a half years younger than Thoreau. But after a short stay, he returned home and dutifully completed his undergraduate degree at Harvard. So was I taken unawares by this, I quite forgot my homage to confess; Yet now am forced to know, though hard it is, I might have loved him, had I loved him less.

It is well known that the Gold Rush attracted a transient population of young men who, once in California, were less likely to conform to social and sexual mores than in their hometowns. Emerson recorded in his journal that Thoreau blushed when he passed through the Emerson kitchen under the gaze of female servants.

Although Henry David Thoreau () has often been described as lacking in sexual drive or at most a rather reluctant heterosexual, a close study of his life and writings indicates the presence of a pronounced vein of homoeroticism--although there seems to be no concrete evidence of any homosex.

I suspect that he thought of her as a caring mother figure. Henry David Thoreau (July 12, – May 6, ) was an American essayist, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian. They shared a love for her husband and were disappointed by his inability to return the affection that they and others craved.

According to the Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Culture, “Biographers remain undecided about Thoreau’s sexuality. There have also been suggestions of a love affair between Thoreau and Lidian Emerson, fifteen years his senior, during the time when Ralph Waldo was away in England.

California was seen as a place of high adventure for many young men, a place to break away, to begin anew. Do you really think I’d leave you because you had a crush on a woodchopper? Despite their efforts to dowse the fire, a warm south wind fanned the flames and quickly spread them through neighboring fields.

There is no evidence of an attraction to any other women. It may have been a convenient place of escape for Edward, too, while struggling with his sexual identity and deciding whether to follow in the family profession.

Katz does not imply an intimate relationship with Wheeler other than to suggest that a poem written the following year may have been gay by their friendship. Edward followed in the footsteps of his father and others in his family and began the study of law at Harvard, gay later earned his law degree from Columbia and was theoreau to the bar in New York inwhen he was 25 years old.

He was close to his sisters and his mother as well as to Lidian. Thoreau later approached the Flints, who owned much of the land around that and another pond in the area, asking permission to build a similar cabin for himself on their property. We two were one while we did sympathize, So could we not the simplest bargain drive; And what avails it now that we are wise, If absence doth this doubleness contrive?

Thoreau grew up in Concord, then decamped for Harvard, where, among other things, he was a member of what eventually became the Hasty Pudding Club, and—according to legend—refused to pay the five-dollar fee for a diploma. Doubtless she thought of him fondly as the affectionate playmate and caregiver to her children and as the household handyman rather than as an theoreau of sexual desire.

If I but love that virtue which he is, Though it be scented in the morning air, Still shall we be truest acquaintances, Nor mortals know a sympathy more rare.