Blossomed furze - the furze plant is in flower
Unprofitably gay - nothing is gained by the beauty of the flowers
The teacher's classroom is the hedgerow - the hedge schools, where the gain is in the learning not the flowers - pretty as they may be.
beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way with blossomed furtze unprofitably gay
No. His partner is the poet Grace Nichols.
Yes, Federico Garcia Lorca was a gay Spanish poet and playwright.
The sexual orientation of this female director and poet is not publicly known.
If you're talking about the poet e. e. cummings, yes.
Robert was quoted in an interview that he is "bi-curious."
Yes, Little Ashes. But Salvador Dali was a surrealist painter.
There is a misunderstanding that John Gay wrote an opera called The Beggar's Opera. This is not the case. Gay was born in Barnstaple, Devon , England and was a poet, not a composer. The words to The Beggar's Opera were written by Gay but the music was by Pepusch ( a German composer )
Samuel Delany was a black gay science fiction author. He wrote  Dark Reflections which had a gay black poet.
African American writer-poet Langston Hughes. For years had a romatic relationship with his (late) "assistant," Raoul Abdul.
It has generally been assumed that Walt Whitman was either gay or bisexual, simply from reading his works. Evidence from personal accounts, including Oscar Wilde and several other long-time friends or companions.
as gay as a maypole. The popular phrase, is the "As queer as a Key" refers to Francis Scott Key. He was a member of an openly gay drinking club, one of the first to be established in the United States.