Pride month music observance!
It's important to remember that queer people have existed forever; many seem to forget that and just focus on queer people of the 20th Century and onward. In particular, some legends of classical music were definitely or likely gay - among the "likely" category are Chopin and Handel, but Tchaikovsky is fully in the definite category.
Here's an attempt at the beginning of his violin concerto on bass.

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