How Gay Is This? :: Has General Discsns

Contents:

• 20 GAY GREEK GODS
• CHARL BARKLEY FENDS LGBTQIA+ MUNY, BUD LIGHT EXPLETIVE-FILLED RANT: ‘IF YOU’RE GAY, GOD BLS YOU’
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• MEET THE GAY GODS!

20 GAY GREEK GODS

A gay cupbearer on Mount Olymp? While tolerance is often prented as a sign of civilizatn's advancement, a readg of Greek mythology reveals greater acceptance of homosexualy ancient Athens than n be boasted wh today's world religns. The LGBT Greek gods and migods prove gay culture is no morn ventn.

While Homer never explicly stat a gay relatnship between Achill and sikick Patrocl, many scholars read a romantic nnectn between the two, as only Patrocl ever drew out a passnate si to the famoly arrogant warrr. Rearcher Johanna Hypatia-Cybelaia wr that lbian and gay vote worshipped her as Artemis Orthia, and that lbian port Pamphilia referred to the godss hymn as Artemis Pergaea.

Above: Athena, center, a mural by John Sger SargentAphrodeWhile the godss of love is not intified promently as lbian herself, the Greek poet Sappho (as sapphic) of Lbos (y, as lbian) told many homoerotic tal and named Aphrode as the greatt patron and ally of lbians and homosexuals wh the Greek pantheon of gods. Above: Enrique Simo, El Juic Paris (1904)ErosWhile the bt-known myths of Eros pict the son of Aphrode as a fertily god -- the versn that proved spiratnal to the popularized Roman god Cupid -- later Greek myths portrayed Eros as one of several wged erot, and the one regard as a protector of homosexual culture, acrdg to rearch the scholarly book Among Women: From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic the Ancient World. Here’s a list of bisexual, gay and LGBT occult personali—om ancient mythology to the morn era.

CHARL BARKLEY FENDS LGBTQIA+ MUNY, BUD LIGHT EXPLETIVE-FILLED RANT: ‘IF YOU’RE GAY, GOD BLS YOU’

In one rnchy tale, Set and Hos, both claimants to Osiris’ throne, e gay sex as a means to tablish superry over each other. In Greek myths, the gods exprs their virily heterosexual as well as homosexual relatnships. Some passag are pecially homoerotic or ht at LGBT inty:.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

His fame shield him om accatns of sodomy, but his wrgs suggt that he was a closeted homosexual, or at least had homoerotic tennci. ” He was also acced of homosexual practic several German-language journals.

While tolerance is often prented as a sign of civilizatn's progrs, a readg of Greek mythology reveals greater acceptance of homosexualy ancient Athens than n be seen wh today's world religns. Many scholars today suggt that while all matters of sex were treated as somewhat taboo, tolerance of homosexualy seemed such a foreign ncept that no rerds show the practice as forbidn. This may dite a certa negative sentiment about gay inty.

MEET THE GAY GODS!

But many stori show that while Seth uld be lled a villao figure, his homosexualy was not what ma him so. In one tale documented well Richard Parkson's Homosexual Dire and Middle Kgdom Lerature, Hos is eher raped or sced to a sexual enunter.

Intertgly, the tale shows that ancient Egyptian culture didn't look down on homosexualy -- somethg heroic Hos engaged himself -- so much as held beg subjugated low teem.

NephthysWhile there are fewer tal Egyptian history and mythology about female than male homosexualy, many nsired the godss Nephthys to be a lbian. Scholars have bated whether the stori of Nephthys, who did bear one son by Osiris, show that the culture held lbians greater teem than gay men, bee they uld still be fertile spe their sexual orientatn. The mother godss and a protector of children, she also red for society's downtrodn, which may be why gay prits ancient Egypt worshipped the y.