New book says Communist China's first premier Zhou Enlai was probably gay
BEIJING: A book to be published in Hong Kong in the new year says Zhou Enlai, Communist China's much-respected first premier, was
probably gay despite his long marriage, and had once been in love with a male schoolmate two years his junior.
It is a contention certain to be controversial in China,
where the Communist Party likes to maintain its top leaders are more or less morally irreproachable and where homosexuality is frowned upon, though no longer officially repressed.
The Hong Kong-based author, Tsoi Wing-mui, is a former editor at a liberal political magazine there who has written about gay-themed subjects before though this is her first book.
She re-read already publicly available letters and diaries Zhou and his wife, Deng Yingchao, wrote, including ones that
detailed Zhou's fondness for a schoolmate and emotional detachment from his wife, to conclude that Zhou was probably gay.
"Zhou Enlai was a gay politician who had the misfortune of being born 100 years early," Tsoi writes in her book.
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This is so sad
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It's unfortunate how so many historical figures were probably gay but had to repress their feelings due to society's beliefs at the time.
) hinting to the possibility that Lincoln was gay 
