Was Wittgenstein gay?
Recently, he began to take an interest in the personality of L. Wittgenstein. And I noticed that there are many biographies of him on various sites, but there is no information about the philosopher's personal life at all. I found this strange, and when I came across the film Wittgenstein, where the director, being a well-known LGBT activist, shows Ludwig as gay, while claiming that the fact of Wittgenstein's homosexuality is not supported by anything, I began to look for more or less adequate information. I came across a lot of things: an essay about Wittgenstein struggling with his depraved nature, rumors about how he filmed male prostitutes, his suspicious friendship with one person, etc.So who was Wittgenstein?
What difference did it make if he was gay or not? L. Wittgenstein is one of the greatest and smartest philosophers who anticipated some of the ideas from cognitive therapy. “By their fruits you will know them,” Jesus said. Wittgenstein's fruits are a powerful literary legacy. His personal life is a complex and controversial issue, but no one forbids referring to his biographies: several of them are already available in Russian.