Gay tchaikovsky

Tchaikovsky’s letters provide ample evidence that he was indeed gay, and his family—or at least his brothers—were aware of it. The composer’s younger brothers, Modest and Anatoly, were twins who were ten years younger than him.

Gay men have taken to their hearts the music of Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky () because it is perceived (rightly or wrongly) to contain all the longing and despair of homosexual angst in a homophobic world.