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The memoirs of George Gordon Noel Byron, sixth baron Byron of Rochdale, Lord Byron, were considered so scandalous that they were burned upon his death. However there’s still plenty of evidence that the foremost poet of the Romantic movement was bisexual. Of a fellow student at Trinity College, John Edleston, Byron wrote, "I certainly love him more than any human being." Of young Lord Clare: "I never hear the word ‘Clare’ without a beating of The heart even now." And of French-Greek youth Nicolo Giraud: "[he is] The most beautiful being I have ever beheld."In a letter to John Cam Hobhouse about Giraud, on August 23rd, 1810, Byron wrote, "It is about two hours since, that, after informing me he was most desirous to follow him (that is me) over the world, he concluded by telling me it was proper for us not only to live, but morire insieme [to die together]. The latter I hope to avoid—as much of the former as he pleases."
Byron was a man of action with a prodigious sexual appetite. His lovers included young Lords Clare and Dorset while at school, and youthful valets and handsome fifteen-year-old Greek boys later in life. Much of Byron’s early poetry was inspired by his love for these boys.
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, later George Gordon Noel, 6th Baron Byron, FRS (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), commonly known simply as Lord Byron, was an English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement. Among Byron's best-known works are the lengthy narrative poems Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and the short lyric "She Walks in Beauty." He is regarded as one of the greatest British poets and remains widely read and influential.
He travelled to fight against the Ottoman Empire in the Greek War of Independence, for which Greeks revere him as a national hero. He died at age 36 from a fever contracted while in Missolonghi in Greece.
Byron was celebrated in life for aristocratic excesses, including huge debts, numerous love affairs, rumours of a scandalous incestuous liaison with his half-sister, and self-imposed exile. It has been speculated that he suffered from bipolar I disorder.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Byron
( Further Readings )
I asked to all the authors joining the GayRomLit convention in Atlanta in October (
The first thing I noticed of this book was how sexy the cover was. When I was browsing the author’s website, I read how the author’s mother was reading this novel (in print) in a doctor’s waiting room, and some other lady commented on the cover and she proudly said it was her son’s novel. I thought that was sweet but I also thought how daring! With that very sexy, and very male on male cover. Good for her and good for her son to have such a mother. In any case I had the feeling this novel was pushing the boundaries of erotica, and that was a wrong impression. Oh, don’t get me wrong, there is sex in the story, and it’s a ménages a trois, already a daring subject per se, but sincerely the erotica part of the story is not the main purpose of the novel. 
Ghosts in the Wind by Marguerite Labbe 
There are not many novels set at the beginning of the XX century and dealing with homosexuality, but the few I read gave a chance of happiness to the heroes that at first I wasn’t thinking possible. But indeed, hidden in the layers of history, there are many of these stories, of “roommates” who never married, of old bachelors who shared an house, of men who married but still had a special relationship with their best friend. They are the gay men of the past, sometime emerging from vintage photo-shoot, posing in their best Sunday attire and conveying from those pictures all the love they felt for each other.