What was the sexual orientation of George Eastman?

Answer 1

Earnest Hemingway lived in a time when sexual orientation was not publicly discussed, and he never made any statements about his.

Here are some other user comments:

• He was in love with a woman who did not regress his feelings.
• Because of his writing, one could assume he was bi ? I really don't know about that, but he was married twice so I'm sure he liked women.
• I don't think you have to go much further than his conversations with Gertrud Stein to establish beyond a reasonable doubt that he was gay and struggled with his identity until his tragic end. The sensitivity between the Major and the adjutant should be enough to dispel any doubts, the unstated being being the revelatory nine tenths of his feelings.
• he was actually married 4 times, and i wouldn't doubt his homosexualality.
• We can not definitively say whether Hemingway was gay or not. Hemingway married four times, often leaving his wife for another woman he would marry shortly afterwords (Hadley Richardson for Pauline Pfeiffer, Martha Gellhorn for Mary Welsh.) F. Scott Fitzgerald joked that Hemingway needed a new woman for every big book. Before his first marriage to Hadley, Hemingway was infatuated with Agnes von Kurowsky (who played the basis for Catherine Barkley from A Farewell to Arms) although their relationship was never consummated. While he did marry multiple times, this does not negate the possibility that he was gay as simply marrying a woman does not make you straight. There have been many men who have married women but been closeted gays. Some believe that his womanizing was him trying to compensate for how he truly felt. The public Hemingway was a brawler, hunter, drinker, while the private Hemingway has been described as "bookish," often times emotional. Hemingway's parents were deeply religious and I suspect that if he was gay this would only add to the shame that he felt around his family as they denounced his writing as immoral and vile. Androgyny seems to be a reoccurring theme in his writing as well. Unless a letter to/from a male lover is found, his closest friends and family come out for him, etc. we will never know.

Answer 2

Mr. Eastman was not a homosexual. There wasa claim in a book published sometime after 1960 claiming he was due to the fact that he never married. Mr. Eastman enjoyed the company of women, and asked a lady to marry him. She turned him down. As a result, George Eastman never pursued marriage again. The George Eastman House has many letters and journals written by Eastman, there you will find a good deal of information regarding his love life.

Answer 3

Hemingway was not considered gay. He married many women in his life. Although, he may have had sexual relations with men at times though.

Answer 4

While his art is widely discussed, nothing about his sexual orientation could be found, other than he liked being alone and never married.

Answer 5

He was heterosexual.