Kitchener. Was he gay?

Question

I’ve heard that the great Lord Kitchener was queer, and at the time of his death, he was buggering and/or being buggered by a young army officer called Captain Fitzgerald! I can’t believe it! Tell me it isn’t true!

Answer 1

Lord Kitchener (1850-1916)
He never married and appreciated porcelain, fine fabrics and interior decor, but it is disputed whether Horatio Kitchener was gay or was just more interested in empire than the opposite sex. The hero of Sudan and the Boer war, whose portrait encouraged millions to enlist for the first world war, was declared gay by many historians. Little was known about his sexual preferences, although a contemporary journalist remarked that Kitchener "has the failing acquired by most of the Egyptian officers, a taste for buggery".

CREDIT
Guardian News and Media Limited 2007

Answer 2

Kitchener Gay

Answer 3

Well Lord Kitchener did GO DOWN with the ship---


""In the spring of 1916 Asquith decided to send Kitchener to Russia in an attempt to rally the country in its fight against Germany. On 5th June 1916, Horatio Kitchener was drowned when the HMS Hampshire on which he was traveling to Russia, was struck a mine off the Orkneys.""
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWkitchener.htm

But aside from that aside from barracks chatter and wistful feelings on the part of those yearning for 'stoing Gay role models' nothing concrete has turned up. It should be stressed that a single man like Kitchener was expected to keep private life private and if that meant an aide or lackey provided creature comforts so be it. In other words people were oddly more tolerant then than now. Now everyone is expected to wear a label.

Here is another blurb...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/gayrights/story/0,,1418932,00.html
""Lord Kitchener (1850-1916)
He never married and appreciated porcelain, fine fabrics and interior decor, but it is disputed whether Horatio Kitchener was gay or was just more interested in empire than the opposite sex. The hero of Sudan and the Boer war, whose portrait encouraged millions to enlist for the first world war, was declared gay by many historians. Little was known about his sexual preferences, although a contemporary journalist remarked that Kitchener "has the failing acquired by most of the Egyptian officers, a taste for buggery".


Peace..

(if it makes ya feel better he would have been 'on Top' an officer must maintain decorum)

Answer 4

Possibly.

See : "Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener : Debate on Kitchener's sexuality" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Kitchener%2C_1st_Earl_Kitchener#Debate_on_Kitchener.27s_sexuality