How Gay Was Sappho? | The New Yorker

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The persistent dream of a "gay utopia" is one of the nstants gay and lbian historil imaggs over the last 200 years.

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THE MYTH OF THE ANCIENT GREEK ‘GAY UTOPIA’

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.

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