Fractionals

Just got Zarathustra's Secret by Joachim Kohler, from, the library. I didn't get it to agree with, and it looks like I won't be. The book's main assertion, based on the preface and introduction, is that Nietzsche was gay, and Nietzsche's philosophy is not only inextricable from that fact (true), but that his repressed homosexuality was ultimately all Nietzsche was about. Which is absurd. The basic form of these arguments always goes like this: He was gay, and his writing was informed by being gay, and so it is not valuable for us as a whole (Nietzsche's case is a little trickier, and I think Kohler would argue that even queer people would not be able to get anything worthwhile from Nietzsche). The problem is that that kind of thinking is basically either prejudical to homosexuals (he was gay, what he says has no revelance to us) or to heterosexuals (we're not gay, we can't understand what he was saying). I agree that Nietzsche's sexuality, whatever it was, had an effect on his mental life. But I reject the idea that his sexuality renders him somehow irrevelant to the rest of us.