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21 GAY POPES, CARDINALS AND ASSORTED CATHOLIC LEADERS.
Fragment of an Attic cup showg homosexual terurse, 550-525BCE Collectn the Louvre Mm.
1978 saw the publitn of Kenh Dover’s book, Greek Homosexualy. Homosexualy had been crimalised Bra jt a earlier. The photographs for Dover’s book had to be livered to the prter by hand, bee the post might have been tercepted unr Sectn 11 of the Post Office Act (1953), which banned sendg “cent or obscene prts” by Homosexualy is not a prehensive acunt of same-sex relatnships the Greek world.
WHO WAS THE MOST FAMO GAY ROMAN?
Hadrian may well have been gay ( the morn sense of beg only attracted to other men). The ia of ‘homosexual’ and ‘heterosexual’ did not yet exist - what mattered was to be sexually domant we know om documents that the Londium of Hadrian’s time was a slave-owng society, sharg the same valu as cizens throughout the Roman empire, we n be sure that same-sex relatnships were normal.
However, gay, bisexual, lbian, and even transgenr lears have guid natns sce time immemorial.
That he sat on the throne named Neferkare leads many scholars to believe the tale Kg Neferkare and General Sase, which scrib a gay relatnship between a pharaoh and his general, was fact about Pepi, though Egyptologists ntue to bate if the story was tth or fictn.