Male-Male Love Classil Arabic Poetry (Chapter 6) - The Cambridge History of Gay and Lbian Lerature

Contents:

• THE UNTOLD GAY HISTORY OF BRA’S FIRST WORLD WAR POETS REVEALED
• THE MYTH OF THE ANCIENT GREEK ‘GAY UTOPIA’

THE UNTOLD GAY HISTORY OF BRA’S FIRST WORLD WAR POETS REVEALED

Explore the rich tradn of gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, and queer poets and poetry by browsg a selectn of poems & d. But rerds of the LGBT romanc survived homophobic revisnists and still stand as celebratns of the origal Greek (and Roman) love. A seri of poems about Catull' gay love affairs has drawn more attentn ntemporary tim; some of gets outright vulgar.

Alexanr the Great and HephatnAlexanr III, the famed kg of Macedon, que likely mataed a gay relatnship wh his general Hephatn.

Ined, two of the most famed generals of their day, Epamondas and Pelopidas, were lovers who fought wh this famo band of gay warrrs.

THE MYTH OF THE ANCIENT GREEK ‘GAY UTOPIA’

Pdar and TheoxenThe most famo love poem wrten by Pdar to clare his love for the young Theoxen was scribed by gay rights scholar Magn Hirschfeld as "one of the most perfect love songs the Greek language. Ort and PylasThe relatnship between the two men was celebrated by Greek scholars as a tale of the wonr of homoerotic romance.

He lived wh longtime lover Psanias, who was quoted extensively on the subject of homosexual sire Plato's work.

At the height of the Islamic Goln Age – a perd om the mid-8th century to the mid-13th century when Islamic civilisatn is believed to have reached s tellectual and cultural zenh – homosexualy was openly spoken and wrten about. Abu Nuwas (756-814), one of the great Arab classil poets durg the time of the Abbasid Caliphate, wrote publicly about his homosexual sir and relatns. His homoerotic poetry was openly circulated right up until the 20th century.