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Contents:

• 'GAY CAVEMAN' STORY OVERBLOWN, ARCHAEOLOGISTS SAY
• THE ALLURE OF GAY CAVEMEN
• THE ALLURE OF GAY CAVEMEN
• CAVE-MYTH BTERS: WAS THERE REALLY A ‘GAY CAVEMAN’ AFTER ALL?
• 'GAY CAVEMAN' STORY OVERBLOWN, ARCHAEOLOGISTS SAY
• GAY CAVEMAN FOUND
• 'GAY CAVEMAN' FOUND BY ARCHAEOLOGISTS NEAR PRAGUE
• CAVEMEN WERE GAY-FRIENDLY EMPLOYG HOMOSEXUALS AS THE FIRST NANNI
• THE OLST GAY THE VILLAGE: 5,000-YEAR-OLD IS 'OUTED' BY THE WAY HE WAS BURIED
• WHAT THE "GAY CAVEMAN" STORY DON'T TELL US ABOUT SEXUAL VARIABILY
• ARCHAEOLOGISTS FD ‘GAY CAVEMAN’ NEAR PRAGUE
• SCIENTISTS SPEAK OUT TO DISCRED 'GAY VEMAN' MEDIA REPORTS
• 'SAMI': WHAT'S WRONG WH GAY CAVEMEN PROCREATG? (VIDEO)
• 'GAY VEMAN' THEORY GETS A ROCKY RECEPTN
• WHAT THE "GAY CAVEMAN" STORY DON'T TELL US ABOUT SEXUAL VARIABILY

'GAY CAVEMAN' STORY OVERBLOWN, ARCHAEOLOGISTS SAY

"Far more likely is that he was a man wh a different sexual orientatn, homosexual or transsexual, " she add. "But this later disvery was neher of those, leadg to believe the man was probably homosexual or transsexual, " Semeradova said.

Archaeologists Prague say they've unvered a Stone-Age man buried a posn ually rerved for women — but media claims of a "gay veman" may be exaggerated, acrdg to some rearchers.

THE ALLURE OF GAY CAVEMEN

Not gay, not a veman Vova and her lleagu told reporters that the man may have belonged to a "third genr. [ 5 Myths About Gay People Debunked] The skeleton has been tmpeted the media as belongg to a "homosexual veman, " but some archaeologists are skeptil.

For one thg, the plexy of the third-genr ncept mak llg the skeleton "gay" an oversimplifitn, Krista Killgrove, an anthropologist at the Universy of North Carola, wrote her blog, Bone Girl. "If this burial reprents a transgenred dividual (as well uld), that don't necsarily mean the person had a 'different sexual orientatn ' and certaly don't mean that he would have nsired himself (or that his culture would have nsired him) 'homosexual, '" Killgrove wrote. "The realy of this is gog to be far more plited than, 'This dividual was gay, '" Dobson told LiveScience.

Not only is "gay" an oversimplifitn, "veman" is flat-out accurate, said John Hawks, a paleoanthropologist at the Universy of Wisns, Madison.

THE ALLURE OF GAY CAVEMEN

Top 10 Weird Ways We Deal Wh the Dead 5 Myths About Gay People Debunked Top 10 Mysteri of the First Humans Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senr Wrer. - EMJ & DD*___The Allure of Gay CavemenThird genrs, two spirs, and a media whout a clueby Eric Michael JohnsonIn 1993 the reputable German weekly Der Spiegelreported a mor that Otzi, the 5, 300-year-old ozen mummy disvered the Otztal Alps two years earlier, ntaed evince of the world's earlit known homosexual act.

The orig of the mor, as Cecil Adams disvered, turns out to have been an April Fool's prank published the Atrian gay magaze Lambda Nachrichten. The problem lay not wh the scientists, who were scribg prelimary fdgs that previewed some tantalizg rults, but a media culture that emphasiz sensatnalism over accuracy and beg first over beg all acunts seems that the UK Telegraph had the dub honor of beg first this se, and so dog mted two wrongs jt as many words: "Gay Caveman. Sendly, an alternative sexual orientatn do not make a person gay.

" The genr rol that we've e to know as homosexual, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr were all reprented the societi, but ways that were culturally specific and likely to have been que unfaiar based on our fns.

CAVE-MYTH BTERS: WAS THERE REALLY A ‘GAY CAVEMAN’ AFTER ALL?

Gay vemen, ed. However, spe the ial siari between the gay vemen sndals of 1991 and 2011 there is a very important difference. In ten untri (cludg where I s Canada, though not where I'm om the Uned Stat) gay marriage has the same legal regnn as straight marriage.

The popular allure of the gay veman story is jt one ditn of this ongog change. Rearchers Dig Up 'Homosexual Or Transsexual' Caveman Near Prague: The Two-Way The body of the veman was buried an untradnal way — the way women were ually buried.

Time reports the way the body was buried might mean the man was gay, bee the burial is nsistent wh the way women were buried.

'GAY CAVEMAN' STORY OVERBLOWN, ARCHAEOLOGISTS SAY

"Far more likely is that he was a man wh a different sexual orientatn, homosexual or transsexual. The followg post origally appeared at Nron Culture hosted by Wired after the origal report last 1993 the reputable German weekly Der Spiegel prted a mor that Otzi, the 5, 300-year-old ozen mummy disvered the Otztal Alps two years earlier, ntaed evince of the world's earlit known homosexual act. The alleged “gay veman” that archaeologists recently disvered may not be que what seems, say other rearchers.

When archaeologists unvered the remas near Prague, the man was buried a posn ed to bury femal, which led the rearchers to say they had disvered an ancient homosexual man. Many archaeologists speculate that the se has been oversimplified the craze surroundg the potential disvery of a “gay veman. ” Jt go to show that if NewsFeed really wanted to see a gay veman, we uld jt misterpret Fred and Barney’s bromance on The Fltston.

GAY CAVEMAN FOUND

Archeologists the Czech Republic have disvered what they're llg the first homosexual veman: The male body – said to date back to between 2900-2500BC – was disvered buried a way normally rerved only for women of the Cord Ware culture the Copper Age... Prevly, a female warrr om the Molhic perd was found buried the style of a man, aga suggtg that she was a homosexual.

'GAY CAVEMAN' FOUND BY ARCHAEOLOGISTS NEAR PRAGUE

" If Semradova is right, not only do we have evince that morn culture isn't makg people gay—as some nservativ would have believe—we've got proof that at least some veman cultur treated gays and lbians wh rpect.

Jt last year, 43 percent of Amerin adults said they believed homosexual relatns are "wrong.

CAVEMEN WERE GAY-FRIENDLY EMPLOYG HOMOSEXUALS AS THE FIRST NANNI

" And gays are well aware that that tolerance n lead to vlence: In 2009, nearly 1, 500 members of Ameri's LGBT muny were attacked bee of their sexual orientatn, and those are jt the s about which the law knows. Elsewhere, around the world, many gays and lbians are murred as a matter of route (a vile brand of hatred to which the Uned Stat is certaly not immune). In other words, not only n many people still not fd wh themselv to believe that a man lovg another man is not "wrong, " many n't fd wh themselv to not want to h or kill a gay person.

The gay veman was buried wh digny acrdg to the ruals of his muny, and he rted peace for lennia.

\nUPDATE: A few anthropologists, cludg one Krista Killgrove at the Universy of North Carola, have been challengg the e of the word "gay" this ntext.

THE OLST GAY THE VILLAGE: 5,000-YEAR-OLD IS 'OUTED' BY THE WAY HE WAS BURIED

Gay Guys Man Cave () - Mastodon. "We found one very specific grave of a man lyg the posn of a woman, whout genr specific grave goods, neher jewelry or weapons, " lead archaeologist Kaa Remisova Vova of the Czech Archaeologil Society told Prs gay, not a vemanVova and her lleagu told reporters that the man may have belonged to a "third genr. [5 Myths About Gay People Debunked]The skeleton has been tmpeted the media as belongg to a "homosexual veman, " but some archaeologists are skeptil.

WHAT THE "GAY CAVEMAN" STORY DON'T TELL US ABOUT SEXUAL VARIABILY

"If this burial reprents a transgenred dividual (as well uld), that don't necsarily mean the person had a 'different sexual orientatn' and certaly don't mean that he would have nsired himself (or that his culture would have nsired him) 'homosexual, '" Killgrove wrote. "The realy of this is gog to be far more plited than, 'This dividual was gay, '" Dobson told only is "gay" an oversimplifitn, "veman" is flat-out accurate, said John Hawks, a paleoanthropologist at the Universy of Wisns, Madison. PRAGUE – Czech archaeologists have unearthed the remas of an early gay man om around 2900-2500 B.

ARCHAEOLOGISTS FD ‘GAY CAVEMAN’ NEAR PRAGUE

Archaeologists Prague have unvered a Stone-Age man buried a posn ually rerved for women — and rearchers have nfirmed the existence of a “gay veman. “Far more likely is that he was a man wh a different sexual orientatn, homosexual or transvte.

In addn, she noted Siberian shamans, or latter-day wch doctors, were buried a siar fashn to the “gay veman, ” but ually wh richer funeral accsori to pict a higher social stat. “But this later disvery was neher of those, leadg to believe the man was probably homosexual or transsexual, ” Semeradova said.

A team of Czech archaeologists claim to have unearthed the remas of an early gay man om around 2900-2500 B. Acrdg to the Telegraph, the "gay veman" was found buried a way normally rerved only for women durg the Copper Age.

SCIENTISTS SPEAK OUT TO DISCRED 'GAY VEMAN' MEDIA REPORTS

"Far more likely is that he was a man wh a different sexual orientatn, homosexual or transvte. In addn, she noted Siberian shamans, or latter-day wch doctors, were buried a siar fashn to the "gay veman, " but ually wh richer funeral accsori to pict a higher social stat, the Daily Mail is reportg. "But this later disvery was neher of those, leadg to believe the man was probably homosexual or transsexual, " Semeradova is also quoted by the Telegraph as sayg.

Vcent Aut and Bno Boile, who are the first homosexual uple to legally marry France, kiss at Tel Aviv Gay Para. A new study reveals that homosexualy was not a taboo ancient societi.

'SAMI': WHAT'S WRONG WH GAY CAVEMEN PROCREATG? (VIDEO)

In hunter gatherers' culture homosexuals were wily accepted as extra help to support fai, acrdg to a study published the journal Human NatureCanadian rearchers at Centre for Addictn and Mental Health Toronto and the Universy of Lethbridge examed 46 ancient transgenred societi ( which homosexual men took transgenr role) and 146 non-transgenred societi ( which gay men took the typil male genr role siar to that of femal a society) societi were pared on the basis of the factors – populatn size, soc-polil systems, relig beliefs and patterns of rearchers found that transgenred male androphilia (male sexual attractn to adult mal) is an anctral phenomenon and was accepted by many muni. "Among transgenred societi, negative societal attus toward homosexualy were unlikely.

'GAY VEMAN' THEORY GETS A ROCKY RECEPTN

Societi which accepted homosexualy were those wh bilateral scent system of fay leage.

The olst gay the village: 5, 000-year-old is 'outed' by the way he was buried Skeleton was potg eastwards and surround by domtic jugs - ruals only prevly seen female gravFive thoand years after he died, the first known gay veman has emerged to the daylight.

Another clue is that men tend to be terred wh weapons, hammers and flt kniv as well as several portns of food and drk to acpany them to the other would be buried wh necklac ma om teeth, pets, and pper earrgs, as well as domtic jugs and an egg-shaped pot placed near the ‘gay veman’ was buried wh hoehold jugs, and no weapons.

WHAT THE "GAY CAVEMAN" STORY DON'T TELL US ABOUT SEXUAL VARIABILY

‘Far more likely is that he was a man wh a different sexual orientatn, homosexual or transvte. Normally only placed female grav, the jugs suggt the veman was eher homosexual or transsexual Another member of the archaeologil team, Katera Semradova, said that lleagu had unvered an earlier se datg om the Molhic perd where a female warrr was buried as a man. Grave of Stone Age ‘genr benr' exvated Prague: Archaeologists have unearthed a unique late Stone Age grave of a ‘transsexual or gay man' a suburb of the Czech pal.

The first sentence, quotg the exvators, spoke stead of a "third genr grave", equatg that more scholarly-- and th, apparently, ls terpretable-- term immediately to transsexual or gay. So, as many news articl said, we unanimoly me down on the "neher gay, nor a veman" si of the argument.

But 's a plited story that requir attentn to the differenc between "third genr"-- the term ed by the Czech archaeologists-- and gay, between both of the and transsexual, and terms like tersex.