The urse of gay love rarely ns smooth on screen, but happy endgs are not as rare as they once were. Wh Merchant-Ivory’s Mrice currently back cemas, we celebrate gay films at their most romantic.
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20 GAY GREEK GODS
Claimg to be one of the most expensive gay films of s time, this Hand--Hand film is famo for reportedly havg been fanced by a former Brks armored-r guard, who stole almost $2 ln om the tck he was guardg 1980. * roman gay video *
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Fragment of an Attic cup showg homosexual terurse, 550-525BCE Collectn the Louvre Mm.
10 GREAT GAY ROMANCE FILMS
1978 saw the publitn of Kenh Dover’s book, Greek Homosexualy. Homosexualy had been crimalised Bra jt a earlier.
The photographs for Dover’s book had to be livered to the prter by hand, bee the post might have been tercepted unr Sectn 11 of the Post Office Act (1953), which banned sendg “cent or obscene prts” by Homosexualy is not a prehensive acunt of same-sex relatnships the Greek world. Hadrian may well have been gay ( the morn sense of beg only attracted to other men). The ia of ‘homosexual’ and ‘heterosexual’ did not yet exist - what mattered was to be sexually domant we know om documents that the Londium of Hadrian’s time was a slave-owng society, sharg the same valu as cizens throughout the Roman empire, we n be sure that same-sex relatnships were normal.
Rape and regulatnHomosexualy the legnsLbian loveThe time of ChristianyDurg the time of the Republic, Roman cizens had the right (libertas) to protect their bodi om physil ercn, cludg both rporal punishment and sexual vlence. Roman cup showg a homosexual sex was socially acceptable for a ee-born Roman to have sex wh a woman or a man assumg a domant role. Generally speakg, civilian life, homosexualy was rather rare and treated reluctantly (as evinced by referenc source texts, which noted outrageo, characteristic and equent thgs), and such relatns were tolerated, as I mentned if the Roman cizen was an active party ( otherwise, Roman blood was ntamated.