Is Achill Gay? | OptimistMds

Contents:

• WAS ACHILL GAY? WHAT WE KNOW FROM CLASSIL LERATURE
• THE PROFOUND GAY LOVE STORI OF THE OLD GUARD AND SONG OF ACHILL
• ACHILL: A GAY NOVEL
• WAS ACHILL GAY? TWTER ERS BATE AFTER RURFACED 2011 BOOK!
• IS ACHILL GAY?

WAS ACHILL GAY? WHAT WE KNOW FROM CLASSIL LERATURE

Much of the ntemporary LGBTQ+ lerature we are exposed to today mak beg gay the only thg the book is about. Gay people didn’t jt happen to show up the past 100 years. It serv as a great example of LGBTQ+ reprentatn that approach and treats gay romance the same way straight romance would be wrten about.

THE PROFOUND GAY LOVE STORI OF THE OLD GUARD AND SONG OF ACHILL

The Song of Achill tak this story and foc on Achill and his iend/lover Patrocl, fully embracg the homosexualy of their relatnship that so many other retellgs ignore. Please be aware, however, there is some vlence this story, as well as homophobia at some plac.

One of the most asked qutns of all time is: was Achill gay? One of the ma arguments that suggt he might have been gay is the exprsn of love between Achill and his clost iend Patrocl, who he had known sce childhood. Some thk he was bisexual, sce there is evince of his romantic attachments to both men and women, while others see his ep attachment to Patrocl as a nfirmatn that he was gay.

Joe and Nicky aren’t the ma protagonists director Ga Prce-Bythewood’s film, but sce the film’s release on July 10, they’re the characters who have garnered a lot of attentn bee of how rare is that gay men are featured actn movi.

ACHILL: A GAY NOVEL

That The Old Guard’s Joe and Nicky are unapologetic about their love allows queer people, and gay men particular, the opportuny to see that throughout all of history, we’ve been there all along — and such a mastream, typilly heteronormative medium, no ls.

At s heart is a simple msage: that straight people might not ever fully unrstand what ’s like to be gay and to fd love. Beyond that not-great movie, Achill and Patrocl’s homosexualy has been bated over and over, ually g down to dissectg ancient Greek culture and the semantics of “gay”.

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WAS ACHILL GAY? TWTER ERS BATE AFTER RURFACED 2011 BOOK!

Was Achill gay? Achill is a key character Homer’s, the character is trendg for another reason as social media ers have been talkg about the book Song of Achill, promptg the qutn among many of them – ‘Was Achill gay’? SEE ALSO: Chrissy Teigen’s new tattoo explaed Achill agast Hector, by Nikos Karakasidis on FlickrTwter ers bate over Song of AchillIt don’t take too long for Twter ers to turn a book, movie or TV seri to a viral topic – and soon many ers start havg long the reason that the character of Achill is trendg right now is that some people have disvered Male Miller’s 2011 book Song of person asked: “Was Achill gay like real?

IS ACHILL GAY?

"— butch john nver (@lbianodo) January 12, 2021 View Tweet Was Achill gay? A blog article by the Brish Mm not that there were “no words ancient Greek for ‘homosexual’ and ‘heterosexual’ classil Athens relatnships between olr, often married, men and younger men were a normal part of social life” stance, Achill has scribed Patrocl Homer’s Iliad as “the man I loved beyond all other ras, loved as my own life”. In this brief gui we are gog to answer the qutn ‘’Is Achill gay?