Sexuality discussion I was surprised to see the Sexuality section I had created so arbitrarily removed I will not just revert that edit instead I will bring the text here so that if anyone has substantive disagreements with the material we can work them out before it is re added to the article The old version was simply slanted and incorrect to boot lumping discussions of his sexuality into the posthumous section despite the fact that allusions and accusations raged well before there was anything posthumous about the man Sexuality Bacon is widely acknowledged to have had romantic attachments to other males and is today considered to have had homosexual tastes Among the many modern authors acknowledging this aspect of his life are A L Rowse A L Rowse Homosexuals in History New York Carroll Garf 1977 page 44 Rictor Norton Rictor Norton Sir Francis Bacon The Great Queens of History updated 8 Jan 2000 Alan Stewart Jardine Lisa Stewart Alan Hostage To Fortune The Troubled Life of Francis Bacon Hill Wang 1999 page 148 Louis Crompton Homosexuality and Civilization pp388 391 and Joseph Cady Nieves Mathews is among the few modern writers to take an opposing view Mathews Nieves Francis Bacon The History of a Character Assassination Yale University Press 1996 claiming that the sources are not conclusive 1 a quote from the private diary of Simonds D Ewes Bacon s enemy in Parliament but considered to be a responsible and scrupulous lawyer 2 a quote from Brief Lives by John Aubrey written after Bacon s passing he was a pederast and had ganimeds and favourites 3 and a note by Ann Bacon in which she expressed disapproval of the friends Francis and Anthony were associating with since one was a Papist and money was owned to her sons that bloody Percy who Bacon kept as a coach companion and bed companion Coaches were one of the few private spaces at the time thus the term coach companion is a clear reference to sexual doings