The Tth About Beg Gay Ancient Egypt - Gayety

Contents:

• MEET ANCIENT EGYPT’S FIRST GAY COUPLE. ALLEGEDLY.
• COULD THIS BE THE FIRST RERD GAY COUPLE HISTORY?
• THE TTH ABOUT BEG GAY ANCIENT EGYPT

MEET ANCIENT EGYPT’S FIRST GAY COUPLE. ALLEGEDLY.

Built 2400 BCE their honor, the tomb is one of the largt and most tritely rated the Saqqara necropolis, and the credible prervatn of s ntents has also tablished an argument that the two, terred together an embrace, are the olst documented gay uple history (though they both still claim to turn 35 every year).

COULD THIS BE THE FIRST RERD GAY COUPLE HISTORY?

Homosexualy was not unmon Ancient Egypt, and clearly their relatnship was both approved of by the pharaoh and close enough to ll for -burial — though the exact nature of their partnership is bated by historians, who make var s based on the imagery the tomb.

” They are not the first to argue that the uple were siblgs rather than romantic partners, cg other panels the tombs that dite the men had wiv and children — though go whout sayg that maral or faial stat is not exclive to homosexual relatnships, socially sanctned or otherwise. In the cultur of the ancient world, there was no need for signatns such as LGBTQ+ bee there was no difference noted between what is now fed as "homosexual" and "heterosexual" relatnships. There are not even words the ancient languag which translate to the morn-day "homosexual" and "heterosexual" which were only ed 1869 CE.

The Greek term arsenoko, translated as "homosexual" the Bible for the first time 1946 CE, never existed until was ed by St.

THE TTH ABOUT BEG GAY ANCIENT EGYPT

Scholar Col Spencer not, "Bisexualy the male was accepted as natural and never drew adverse ment, but passive homosexualy ma the Egyptians feel uneasy. There was no ncept of a "homosexual" relatnship Egypt, only relatnships. The tale of Sodom and Gomorrah om the Book of Genis is also monly ced attacks on the gay muny, but even Church Fathers such as Sat Ambrose (d.