The Gay Pantheon

Contents:

• 20 GAY GREEK GODS
• GAY BEAR VIOS: THE BT OF THE BT
• THE SECRET LGBTI HISTORY OF VIKGS, VALKYRI AND NORSE GODSSTEFANIA SARBBA·FOLLOW5 M READ·OCT 17, 2018--1LISTENSHARELOKI AND VALKYRIE A SCENE OF THOR: RAGNAROK. | PHOTO: MARVEL/WALT DISNEYYOU DON’T NEED TO HOLD A PHD NORSE MYTHOLOGY TO KNOW THAT VIKG WARRRS AND NORSE GODS WERE AMONG THE QUEERT OF ALL TIM.THE MARVEL CEMATIC UNIVERSE HTED AT THAT, ALTHOUGH VERY VAGUELY, ON SEVERAL OCSNS.DPE THE MOVI WATERED DOWN THE ICS, IS NOT IMPOSSIBLE TO SEE THE SAGA GOG BOLR THE FUTURE, PECIALLY WH A TV SHOW FOCG ON LOKI THE WORKS. DC WILL HAVE S FIRST LBIAN SUPERHERO, AFTER ALL. IT’S TIME MARVEL’S NORSE GODS AND HERO FOLLOWED SU.MOREOVER, BOTH TOM HIDDLTON AND TSA THOMPSON HAVE SAID THAT THEY PLAYED THEIR CHARACTERS THOR AND AVENGERS — LOKI AND VALKYRIE RPECTIVELY — AS BISEXUALS.IN THE ICS, VALKYRIE HAS A RELATNSHIP WH ANTHROPOLOGIST ANNABELLE RIGGS.THOMPSON, WHO IS BISEXUAL, ALSO NFIRMED THERE WAS A SCENE OM THOR: RAGNAROK THAT WOULD HAVE MA HER CHARACTER’S ATTRACTN TO BOTH GENRS NON. THE SCENE, SHOWG A WOMAN WALKG OUT OF VALKYRIE’S BEDROOM, WOULD HAVE IMPLIED THE WARRR DAT BOTH GUYS AND GIRLS, BUT SADLY DIDN’T MAKE TO THE FAL CUT.THERE MIGHT TAKE TIME FOR MARVEL TO GIVE THE HISTORILLY ACCURATE, QUEER NORSE FOLKS WE SERVE. IN THE MEANTIME, GSN UNPACKED EARLY NORTHERN MYTHOLOGY TO REVEAL THE LGBTI ELEMENTS GODS AND HERO’ TAL OM THE VIKG AGE.LOKI IS BISEXUAL AND GENR-FLUIDSOME GODS, HERO AND HIGHLY RPECTED PRITS APPARENTLY DULGED HOMOSEXUAL PRACTIC.THE TRICKSTER GOD LOKI IS SURELY ONE OF THE MOST PROMENT EXAMPL THIS REGARD. HIS BISEXUALY AND GENR-FLUIDY ARE NON, ACRDG TO THE CCIAL TEXTS OF NORSE LERATURE, PROSE AND POETIC EDDA.ALTHOUGH THE TEXTS WERE WRTEN 200 OR 300 YEARS AFTER THE ACTUAL VIKG AGE (793–1066 AD) AND WERE THEREFORE EPLY FLUENCED BY CHRISTIANY, THEY ARE VALUABLE SOURC TO HAVE A GRASP OF HOW SAME-SEX RELATNSHIPS WERE REGARD AT THE TIME.LOKI IS FELY BISEXUAL AND A SHAPHIFTER. HE N CHANGE SPECI AND GENR AT HIS WILL — OR SHOULD WE SAY, THEIR?SPECIFILLY, LOKI TURNS TO A MARE, HAS A SEXUAL ENUNTER WH A GIANT’S STALLN AND GIV BIRTH, AS ATTTED GYLFAGNG, THE FIRST PART OF PROSE EDDA, DATG BACK TO THE 13TH CENTURY.THE THOR OF PROSE EDDA SNORRI STURLON WROTE THAT ‘LOKI HAD HAD SUCH ALGS WH SVAðILFARI (THE STALLN) THAT SOMETIME LATER HE BORE A FOAL’.BOTH THE POETIC AND THE PROSE EDDA CLARIFY THAT THE FOAL WILL GROW TO BEE OD’S EIGHT-LEGGED STEED SLEIPNIR. IT IS SAFE TO SAY LOKI AND SVAðILFARI ARE SAME-SEX PARENTS.OD PRACTIC WOMEN’S MAGICTHE ALLFATHER OD PRACTICED SEIðR, A FORM OF MAGIC TRADNALLY ASSOCIATED WH WOMEN THAT HE LEARNED OM GODSS FREYA.IN THE LOKASENNA, A POEM THE POETIC EDDA WHERE LOKI SULTS ALL OTHER GODS, HE MOCKS OD FOR PRACTICG THIS KD OF MAGIC.ACCG A MAN OF SEIðR WAS ONE OF THE GREATT OFFENS. WOMEN’S MAGIC OR WCHCRAFT, FACT, IMPLIED THAT THE PRACTNER PLAYED THE WOMAN’S PART THE SEXUAL ACT.BOTTOM-SHAMG WAS A THG THE VIKG AGEMALE HOMOSEXUALY AND BISEXUALY WERE NTEMPLATED THE VIKG AGE PRR TO CHRISTIANIZATN.IN THE PAGAN AGE, FACT, THE MON LANGUAGE CLUD WORDS TO REFER TO SAME-SEX TERURSE, MALY ED AS SLURS.GAY SEX WASN’T UNUAL, BUT A MAN ULDN’T BE WH MALE PARTNERS FOR ALL HIS LIFE. HE HAD TO NFORM TO THE TRADNAL ROLE OF HBAND AND FATHER, HENCE MARRYG A WOMAN AND HAVG CHILDREN.WHILE THERE WASN’T ANYTHG SHAMEFUL WH BEG ACTIVE A GAY RELATNSHIP, VIKGS NSIRED THE PASSIVE PARTNERS AS WEAK.THEY ED TO RAPE ENEMI AFTER WNG A BATTLE ORR TO HUIATE THEM. THEREFORE, THOSE WHO WERE PASSIVE A SAME-SEX SEXUAL ENUNTER WERE EMED NOT STRONG ENOUGH TO BE LEARS.PREBEN MLENGRACHT SøRENSON IS THE THOR OF AN SAY ON SEXUAL FAMATN EARLY NORTHERN SOCIETI. HE EXPLAED THAT HAVG TERURSE WH A BELOVED IEND WAS THE WORST SORT OF BETRAYAL OR LACK OF LOYALTY DUE TO THE LK BETWEEN GAY SEX AND ENEMY-SHAMG.OVERALL, VIKGS DIDN’T REGARD HOMOSEXUALY AS SOMETHG AGAST NATURE. THEY RATHER BELIEVED BEG PASSIVE WAS SOMETHG AFFECTG A WARRR’S STRENGTH AND MANHOOD, CCIAL QUALI DURG A RAID.POLYAMORY AND FEMALE BISEXUALY
• GAY NIGHTLIFE CHARLTON, S.C.: BT BARS, CLUBS, & MORE
• GAYHAREM WIKI
• SOME OF THE GREATT GAY LOVE STORI MOVI

20 GAY GREEK GODS

The first terpretatn of the Ganyme tale is born om the homosexual relatns that were acknowledged some ancient Greek stat. The relatnships were not what we would today ll homosexual.

Even as they emphasised the Christian msage of this scene, homosexual artists of the Renaissance were not bld to the more obv meang of the Ganyme myth. Some patrons may have requted a versn of the Ganyme myth as an exprsn of their homosexual sir. In poetry, plays, and even mon parlance, Ganyme me to stand for both paedophilic and homosexual tast.

Homosexualy the morn sense was only named and acknowledged the late neteenth century. While many homosexual men had to rema gey about their love, there were some outspoken artists who were relatively open about their sir.

GAY BEAR VIOS: THE BT OF THE BT

Today his works, cludg a patg of Ganyme before he is rried off, are some of the few ma by a homosexual artist that explore the psychology of gay men.

Dpe the ubiquy of Ganyme wtern art, his populary fell away the late neteenth century favour of another symbol for homosexual love. It may be that openly displayg a work of Ganyme, wh all of s illic homosexual unrton, would too openly 'out' a llector as a Ganyme himself.

For homosexual Grand Tourists, Anto proved irristible. In one of the most famo portras of Wckelmann, the great art historian and homosexual n be seen proudly examg an engravg of a statue of Anto.

THE SECRET LGBTI HISTORY OF VIKGS, VALKYRI AND NORSE GODSSTEFANIA SARBBA·FOLLOW5 M READ·OCT 17, 2018--1LISTENSHARELOKI AND VALKYRIE A SCENE OF THOR: RAGNAROK. | PHOTO: MARVEL/WALT DISNEYYOU DON’T NEED TO HOLD A PHD NORSE MYTHOLOGY TO KNOW THAT VIKG WARRRS AND NORSE GODS WERE AMONG THE QUEERT OF ALL TIM.THE MARVEL CEMATIC UNIVERSE HTED AT THAT, ALTHOUGH VERY VAGUELY, ON SEVERAL OCSNS.DPE THE MOVI WATERED DOWN THE ICS, IS NOT IMPOSSIBLE TO SEE THE SAGA GOG BOLR THE FUTURE, PECIALLY WH A TV SHOW FOCG ON LOKI THE WORKS. DC WILL HAVE S FIRST LBIAN SUPERHERO, AFTER ALL. IT’S TIME MARVEL’S NORSE GODS AND HERO FOLLOWED SU.MOREOVER, BOTH TOM HIDDLTON AND TSA THOMPSON HAVE SAID THAT THEY PLAYED THEIR CHARACTERS THOR AND AVENGERS — LOKI AND VALKYRIE RPECTIVELY — AS BISEXUALS.IN THE ICS, VALKYRIE HAS A RELATNSHIP WH ANTHROPOLOGIST ANNABELLE RIGGS.THOMPSON, WHO IS BISEXUAL, ALSO NFIRMED THERE WAS A SCENE OM THOR: RAGNAROK THAT WOULD HAVE MA HER CHARACTER’S ATTRACTN TO BOTH GENRS NON. THE SCENE, SHOWG A WOMAN WALKG OUT OF VALKYRIE’S BEDROOM, WOULD HAVE IMPLIED THE WARRR DAT BOTH GUYS AND GIRLS, BUT SADLY DIDN’T MAKE TO THE FAL CUT.THERE MIGHT TAKE TIME FOR MARVEL TO GIVE THE HISTORILLY ACCURATE, QUEER NORSE FOLKS WE SERVE. IN THE MEANTIME, GSN UNPACKED EARLY NORTHERN MYTHOLOGY TO REVEAL THE LGBTI ELEMENTS GODS AND HERO’ TAL OM THE VIKG AGE.LOKI IS BISEXUAL AND GENR-FLUIDSOME GODS, HERO AND HIGHLY RPECTED PRITS APPARENTLY DULGED HOMOSEXUAL PRACTIC.THE TRICKSTER GOD LOKI IS SURELY ONE OF THE MOST PROMENT EXAMPL THIS REGARD. HIS BISEXUALY AND GENR-FLUIDY ARE NON, ACRDG TO THE CCIAL TEXTS OF NORSE LERATURE, PROSE AND POETIC EDDA.ALTHOUGH THE TEXTS WERE WRTEN 200 OR 300 YEARS AFTER THE ACTUAL VIKG AGE (793–1066 AD) AND WERE THEREFORE EPLY FLUENCED BY CHRISTIANY, THEY ARE VALUABLE SOURC TO HAVE A GRASP OF HOW SAME-SEX RELATNSHIPS WERE REGARD AT THE TIME.LOKI IS FELY BISEXUAL AND A SHAPHIFTER. HE N CHANGE SPECI AND GENR AT HIS WILL — OR SHOULD WE SAY, THEIR?SPECIFILLY, LOKI TURNS TO A MARE, HAS A SEXUAL ENUNTER WH A GIANT’S STALLN AND GIV BIRTH, AS ATTTED GYLFAGNG, THE FIRST PART OF PROSE EDDA, DATG BACK TO THE 13TH CENTURY.THE THOR OF PROSE EDDA SNORRI STURLON WROTE THAT ‘LOKI HAD HAD SUCH ALGS WH SVAðILFARI (THE STALLN) THAT SOMETIME LATER HE BORE A FOAL’.BOTH THE POETIC AND THE PROSE EDDA CLARIFY THAT THE FOAL WILL GROW TO BEE OD’S EIGHT-LEGGED STEED SLEIPNIR. IT IS SAFE TO SAY LOKI AND SVAðILFARI ARE SAME-SEX PARENTS.OD PRACTIC WOMEN’S MAGICTHE ALLFATHER OD PRACTICED SEIðR, A FORM OF MAGIC TRADNALLY ASSOCIATED WH WOMEN THAT HE LEARNED OM GODSS FREYA.IN THE LOKASENNA, A POEM THE POETIC EDDA WHERE LOKI SULTS ALL OTHER GODS, HE MOCKS OD FOR PRACTICG THIS KD OF MAGIC.ACCG A MAN OF SEIðR WAS ONE OF THE GREATT OFFENS. WOMEN’S MAGIC OR WCHCRAFT, FACT, IMPLIED THAT THE PRACTNER PLAYED THE WOMAN’S PART THE SEXUAL ACT.BOTTOM-SHAMG WAS A THG THE VIKG AGEMALE HOMOSEXUALY AND BISEXUALY WERE NTEMPLATED THE VIKG AGE PRR TO CHRISTIANIZATN.IN THE PAGAN AGE, FACT, THE MON LANGUAGE CLUD WORDS TO REFER TO SAME-SEX TERURSE, MALY ED AS SLURS.GAY SEX WASN’T UNUAL, BUT A MAN ULDN’T BE WH MALE PARTNERS FOR ALL HIS LIFE. HE HAD TO NFORM TO THE TRADNAL ROLE OF HBAND AND FATHER, HENCE MARRYG A WOMAN AND HAVG CHILDREN.WHILE THERE WASN’T ANYTHG SHAMEFUL WH BEG ACTIVE A GAY RELATNSHIP, VIKGS NSIRED THE PASSIVE PARTNERS AS WEAK.THEY ED TO RAPE ENEMI AFTER WNG A BATTLE ORR TO HUIATE THEM. THEREFORE, THOSE WHO WERE PASSIVE A SAME-SEX SEXUAL ENUNTER WERE EMED NOT STRONG ENOUGH TO BE LEARS.PREBEN MLENGRACHT SøRENSON IS THE THOR OF AN SAY ON SEXUAL FAMATN EARLY NORTHERN SOCIETI. HE EXPLAED THAT HAVG TERURSE WH A BELOVED IEND WAS THE WORST SORT OF BETRAYAL OR LACK OF LOYALTY DUE TO THE LK BETWEEN GAY SEX AND ENEMY-SHAMG.OVERALL, VIKGS DIDN’T REGARD HOMOSEXUALY AS SOMETHG AGAST NATURE. THEY RATHER BELIEVED BEG PASSIVE WAS SOMETHG AFFECTG A WARRR’S STRENGTH AND MANHOOD, CCIAL QUALI DURG A RAID.POLYAMORY AND FEMALE BISEXUALY

By the late neteenth century, Anto had e to replace Ganyme as the in of choice for gay art llectors. Yet the stori of the two gay ins ntued to speak to gay men.

It is no wonr the stori of Anto and Ganyme spoke strongly to gay men tim when their love was illegal. In the 'Gay Corner' of the Congrsnal Cemetery Washgton, you will fd the name of Anto scribed on an obelisk unr the shady branch of a cherry tree.

GAY NIGHTLIFE CHARLTON, S.C.: BT BARS, CLUBS, & MORE

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.

GAYHAREM WIKI

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.

SOME OF THE GREATT GAY LOVE STORI MOVI

Gay adult film star Steve "Tpig" Hurley passed away on Easter Sunday Palm Sprgs. Hurley, whose real name was Pl Yger, appeared gay adult films for over 15 years and is remembered as both a nsummate profsnal and an outgog and lovg person. "He set a new standard for what the image of what a gay porn star should look like, " iend and star Christian Mchell told Xbiz.

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.