Gay Warrrs: A Documentary History om the Ancient World to the Prent on JSTOR

Contents:

• THE ORIGAL QUEER VETERANS: THIS ANCIENT GAY ARMY WAS AN ELE & UNSTOPPABLE FORCE
• WERE THE SPARTANS GAY? HOMOSEXUALY SPARTA, ANCIENT GREECE

THE ORIGAL QUEER VETERANS: THIS ANCIENT GAY ARMY WAS AN ELE & UNSTOPPABLE FORCE

Gay Warrrs: A Documentary History om the Ancient World to the Prent on JSTOR. 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.

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.

WERE THE SPARTANS GAY? HOMOSEXUALY SPARTA, ANCIENT GREECE

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.

Issu the morn-day regardg genr inty and civil rights for members of the LGBTQ muny are a relatively recent phenomenon as are the terms 'homosexual' and 'heterosexual'. The terms 'homosexual' and 'heterosexual' are morn nstcts of the 19th century, ed by the Atrian wrer Karl-Maria Kertbeny (l. Kertbeny, a closeted gay man, had lost a close iend his youth who killed himself after he was extorted by a blackmailer who found out he was gay.