'Outed' By Archaeology: 5000-Year-Old 'Gay' Caveman Found
Contents:
- THE ALLURE OF GAY CAVEMEN
- 'GAY CAVEMAN' STORY OVERBLOWN, ARCHAEOLOGISTS SAY
- 'GAY CAVEMAN' FOUND BY ARCHAEOLOGISTS NEAR PRAGUE
- THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW
THE ALLURE OF GAY CAVEMEN
Archaeologists have unearthed the 5,000-year-old remas of what they believe may have been the world's olst known gay veman. * gay man cave *
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'GAY CAVEMAN' STORY OVERBLOWN, ARCHAEOLOGISTS SAY
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. * gay man cave *
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'GAY CAVEMAN' FOUND BY ARCHAEOLOGISTS NEAR PRAGUE
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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.
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. 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.
THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW
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.