While this has been a highly entertaining thread to follow, if memory
serves correctly the query made in the original post has been all but
ignored, since the question was specifically about *homosexuality* in
music.

There is a suggestion of homosexuality in the Erlkonig, in the seduction
of the little boy...

Of course Tchaikovsky was gay, which I believe had an indirect but profound
influence on his music-making.  Homosexuality was a crime punishable by
death in czarist Russia...  there is speculation Tchaikosky intentionally
contracted cholera by drinking unboiled water, knowing that his orientation
was dangerously close to becoming public knowledge.  Tchaikovsky was a
chronically depressed individual, which no doubt was in part caused by the
difficult secret he kept, and which no doubt partially effected the mood
which permeates works like the 1st piano concerto and the last 3
symphonies, the last of which is plainly programmatic, perhaps
autobiographical.

For my contribution to what this thread has been, there is of course
Bolero...  13 or so minutes of rhythmic repetition, a brief climax, and
collapse.  (Ravel must not been the most exciting paramour.) Also, in the
"hat's off gentleman, a genius" review, there is a less famous reference:
"And in bar [12?] he kisses Zerlina on the D-flat." Chopin joked in a
letter that he wondered where a woman's D-flat was...  a joke which he
would make several references to in future letters; "D-flat" or "the D-flat
major" becoming a euphemism for sex or that part of of the female anatomy.

scandalously,
Michael Cooper ([log in to unmask])