# Is the composer, Franz Schubert gay?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 16, 2011, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-composer-franz-schubert-gay/578661 "2011-04-16T22:54:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![si\_blakely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@si\_blakely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/si_blakely)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2016, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-composer-franz-schubert-gay/578661/21 "2016-05-07T20:18:33Z")

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julien.gide - your post incorrectly places the word “pedophilia” where you intended to use “pederasty”. You might want to ask a moderator to fix that for you, as the error undermines your explanation.

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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2016, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-composer-franz-schubert-gay/578661/22 "2016-05-07T23:16:08Z")

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If Franz Schubert were sexually active today . . . he’d definitely be, like this thread, a zombie.

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**Author:** ![Me\_Billy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e480ec/32.png) [@Me\_Billy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Me_Billy)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2016, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-composer-franz-schubert-gay/578661/23 "2016-05-08T15:04:54Z")

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If you look at pictures on [craigslist.org](http://craigslist.org) / Personals / Casual Encounters / M4M, you will see that a high percentage of men who are wanting encounters with other men are not feminine in the least. Many of them are even married or claim to be “straight”. (Straight to bed is more like it!)

Anyway “feminine” behavior is not a good indicator as to if a man is gay or not.

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**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2016, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-composer-franz-schubert-gay/578661/24 "2016-05-09T19:38:03Z")

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> [@Jackmannii](#):
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> Schubert is like, dead, totally.
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> So we’re definitely talking safe sex here.

If someone plays his music, is that safe sax?

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