homophobic. But it seems to me there needs to be 
some more research into this. But from what I’ve 
seen in a wonderful recent biography of his, if he 
was homophobic, it was the homophobia of a man 
who was so attracted to other men, that he feared 
in himself, that is, it doesn’t seem to be to be the 
kind of homophobia of the far right, the kind of 
simple hatred. It’s a highly complex homophobia, if 
it’s there. It is a homophobia of a man who’s 
totally under the control of women. He was under 
the control of very powerful women throughout 
his life, from his mother, to his wife, and so on. So I 
think that it would be quite unfair to just take our 
contemporary term homophobia and transport it