Doesn't it hide a series of allusions to his own secretive experiences with a homosexual love that dared not speak its name?

In the ancient Assyrian society, there was nothing amiss with homosexual love between men.

Religiously, there was nothing amiss with homosexual love between men.

It also makes for a more efficient description of the subtle ways in which homosexual love was expressed.

Most critics believe that these poems are Whitman's clearest expressions in print of his ideas about homosexual love.

Some critics have argued that a general shift from heterosexual to homosexual love can be observed through the course of his writing career.

The government has put a blanket ban on any descriptions of homosexual love.

He experienced his first homosexual love for one of his students.