Alexanr The Great: Gay or Straight?

Contents:

• ALEXANR THE GREAT’S GAY LOVERS
• ALEXANR THE GREAT: GAY OR STRAIGHT?
• DIRECTOR OF ACCLAIMED GAY GBY FILM IN OM THE SI ON MUD, SWEAT AND ‘IDT’ HOMOPHOB

ALEXANR THE GREAT’S GAY LOVERS

THE GAY LOVERS OF ALEXANDER III OF MACEDON, known as ‘THE GREAT’. A group of homophobic Greek lawyers even threatened to sue Warner Bros. The lawyers, tramplg their own tellectual herage unrfoot, sent a letter to the stud mandg they state the tle creds that the movie was a fictnal surroundg the “gayns” of Alexanr has a precent.

A uple of years prevly, a mob of hundreds of Macedonian Greeks stormed an archeologil symposium after a speaker prented a paper on the homosexualy of Alexanr. Stone’s movie uld have been done much better; he uld have portrayed Alexanr as we know him historilly, gay lovers and all, but Col Farrell was not the bt choice to play Alexanr. When the DVD was released, Stone attempted to salvage the movie by rearrangg the scen and takg out much of the homosexual ntent.

ALEXANR THE GREAT: GAY OR STRAIGHT?

This relatnship rembled morn gay love and beme legendary for ’s passn. What may seem normal to some of today, the gay love of one man for another, ancient days was owned upon as a threat to masculy and the stcture of society.

Alexanr saw their love as emulatg that heroic love between Achill and Patrocl, another ancient uple that morn gay upl n look to as an example of votn. Edorial Board, World History of Male Love, “Famo Homosexuals”, The Gay Lovers of Alexanr the Great, 2000 <> Jt for the rerd, to any of my Greek rears, always remember this, the greatt man Greek History was a homosexual (ο μεγαλύτερος άνθρωπος στην ελληνική ιστορία ήταν ομοφυλόφιλος), not a perast like many ancient Greeks, but a homosexual who had a male lover of equal age, which ma a huge difference the Ancient Greek World. It happens to be one of my favore morn gay art piec.

Yet, to give Stone his due, he was prepared to take on the ch the welter of homophobic cricism he received for pictg his hero  close homoerotic enunter wh the Persian nuch. For ancient Greeks there was no ntradictn between youthful homoeroticism and predomantly or wholly heterosexual adult proclivy and activy.

DIRECTOR OF ACCLAIMED GAY GBY FILM IN OM THE SI ON MUD, SWEAT AND ‘IDT’ HOMOPHOB

I thk there are a lot of ‘g out’ and ‘homophobia’ films and I was terted gettg beyond that. My -wrer, Adam Silver, and I said we didn’t want to make a film like that – there’ll be no g out or homophobia. It don’t e om homophobia or g out, ’s a film about monogamy, adultery and open relatnships which aren’t explored very much other gay films.