COVID-19 is not a sexually transmitted disease, but it hampers all forms of human contact and is cruelly depriving. This is a moment for everyone, whatever their sexual orientation, to acknowledge how diminished life is when touch, closeness and affection is risky and unsafe, whether due to oppression or infection - Ludvig-van.com writes in a spot-on introduction of the article about the homosexuality of Leonard Bernstein and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.