Leonardo da vinci was gay

A controversial essay by Freud in , entitled “Leonardo da Vinci and A Memory of His Childhood,” psychoanalyses the artist, positing that he was gay, but celibate.

Was Leonardo da Vinci gay or asexual? So far as Leonardo da Vinci is concerned, the document is the only specific written evidence from his own lifetime that we have concerning the artist’s sexuality. Even that allegation, of course, may have been speculative or malicious.