Editing Steven Runciman (section)

===Homosexuality===
Runciman was [[homosexual]].<ref name="Dinshaw">{{Cite book |last=Dinshaw |first=Minoo |url={{GBurl|vh5WMQAACAAJ}} |title=Outlandish Knight: The Byzantine Life of Steven Runciman |date=2017 |publisher=[[Penguin Group|Penguin Books, Limited]] |isbn=978-0-14-197947-2 |language=en}}</ref> There is little evidence of a long-term lover, but Runciman boasted of a number of casual sexual encounters, and told a friend in later life: "I have the temperament of a [[harlot]], and so am free of emotional complications." Nevertheless, Runciman was discreet about his homosexuality, partly perhaps because of religious feelings that homosexuality was "an inarguable offence against God". Runciman also felt that his sexuality had potentially held back his career. [[Max Mallowan]] related a conversation in which Runciman told him "that he felt his life had been a failure because of his gayness".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Malcolm |first=Noel |author-link=Noel Malcolm |date=2016-10-05 |title="I have the temperament of a harlot": on the life of Steven Runciman |url=https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/poetry/2016/10/i-have-temperament-harlot-life-steven-runciman |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220106013508/https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/poetry/2016/10/i-have-temperament-harlot-life-steven-runciman |archive-date=2022-01-06 |access-date=2019-02-07 |website=[[New Statesman]] |language=en}}</ref>