My Contribution To 'Gay History Month'

Sir Roger Casement was a diplomat, social activist,
Irish hero and 'gay diarist' when such diaries
when homosexuality was an activity,
rather than an aspect of character,
and his homosexuality was a small part
of who he was with his intelligence and charisma.
With his death at the hands of the British state 
and his character slandered, still he 'outed'
the idea of an Ireland free of the British Empire,
much to the chagrin of Unionists today,
when at the time homosexuality,
remained mostly unknown outside
the Bloomsbury group of writers.