Among the pyramids we vis on our upg Egypt cise li the necropolis Sakkara. Here awas the tomb of (likely) Egypt's first gay ernors: Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum.
Contents:
- THE TTH ABOUT BEG GAY ANCIENT EGYPT
- MEET ANCIENT EGYPT’S FIRST GAY COUPLE. ALLEGEDLY.
- THE OLST GAYS HISTORY
THE TTH ABOUT BEG GAY ANCIENT EGYPT
This might sound like the set-up for a terrible gay remake of Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, but at the time, groomg the Pharoah was revered labor. And the Book of Dreams (cir 1200 BCE), different fat are laid out for the woman who has sex wh a married woman vers the one who has sex wh a sgle and all, would be historilly accurate to talk about “gay Ancient Egyptians, ” Lacey hastens to clarify, for two reasons.
MEET ANCIENT EGYPT’S FIRST GAY COUPLE. ALLEGEDLY.
Lacey tells me that there is a persistent mor among scholars who study Nubia that “there were entirely homosexual groups of men livg the kgdom of Kh, ” though no one has ever isolated the source of those mors, or proven or disproven them. 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. 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 OLST GAYS HISTORY
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. Although homosexual relatnships were, of urse, regnized prr to Kertbeny, he was among the first to argue that one’s sexual preference and genr inty was nate – not a choice – and that a gay man should not be equated wh effemacy by potg to great hero of antiquy who were gay.