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1. Keynes was also openly gay

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Sat Apr 5, 2025, 02:09 PM

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Keynes's early romantic and sexual relationships were exclusively with men.[154] Keynes had been in relationships while at Eton and Cambridge; significant among these early partners were Dilly Knox and Daniel Macmillan.[23]: 27 [155] Keynes was open about his affairs, and from 1901 to 1915 kept separate diaries in which he tabulated his many sexual encounters.[156][157] Keynes's relationship and later close friendship with Macmillan was to be fortunate, as Macmillan's company first published his tract Economic Consequences of the Peace.[23]: 18

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