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• HOW GAY WAS GILGAMH?
• WERE ENKIDU AND GILGAMH GAY
• WERE GILGAMH AND ENKIDU - SURNAME 1 NAME...
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
• GAY ROO SPOTLIGHTED ONE-NIGHT-ONLY EVENT

HOW GAY WAS GILGAMH?

I’m gay. Asi om ocsnal ignorant qutns and weird looks, the only major homophobia I’ve experienced has stemmed om the ia that queer people are a new velopment. There seems to be a nsens Wtern society that there weren’t gay people until at least the 1960s, but realy there have always been gay people, jt like there have always been people wh brown hair and there have always been bld people and there have always been people who don’t like to wear sho.

Awarens of gay people and gay experienc before our time remds that we are not a fad, not a trend, not a see exampl of homosexualy as far back as the Ancient Mederranean. Pedophilia asi — the story of ancient lovers like Achill and Patrocl mak an important pot: homosexual relatnships have always been around.

Contrary to what many would have you believe, gayns is naturally occurrg, and has been naturally occurrg for centuri. It nnot be argued that eher Gilgamh or Enkidu were exclively homosexual, but is very likely that they were lovers.

WERE ENKIDU AND GILGAMH GAY

Of urse, gay protagonists are beg more mon as our society grows more progrsive, and that is wonrful! It is val that people unrstand that homosexualy and bisexualy have always existed.

Throughout history, people have been gay all over the place, we jt don’t have most of their stori.

Gay people reprsed their feelgs or loved each other secret.

WERE GILGAMH AND ENKIDU - SURNAME 1 NAME...

Inially, was pretty much only whe gay men who were visible, but gradually, the queer sphere has expand to clu women, people of lor, transgenr people, bisexual and pansexual people, people of different abili and religns and backgrounds, those who e out early life and those who don’t figure out until later. At every level, the normalizatn of gay relatnships is credibly important. Their existence is an important piece of the puzzle that is gay history; the puzzle that n help queer people unrstand themselv and others to accept them.

Documents om ancient civilizatns throughout Asia and the Middle East monstrate wispread homosexualy. Homosexualy was wily accepted for centuri Cha. John Boswell has wrten about how premorn Europe, both the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Church sanctned same-sex marriag ceremoni strikgly siar to morn relig heterosexual other words, acrdg to the bt archaeology and lerature studi we have available, homosexuals have been around for as long as we’ve had, actually.

GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI

If we turn om soft scienc to harr scienc such as zoology and blogy, we fd that homosexualy existed long before human begs evolved. A female-female pair of Laysan AlbatrossThis kd of diversy means that homosexualy appeared life long before humany evolved. Homosexualy has been part of nature for many lns of his book The Social Conqut of Earth, legendary Harvard blogist E.

Wilson explas that homosexualy is far too prevalent nature to be an accint or mutatn — mt, on the ntrary, serve an evolutnary purpose. He has theorized that for higher social animals such as humans, homosexualy serv a val functn of promotg posive group Amerin bison exhibs homosexual behavrs (no, not this picture)Natural history seems to have been lost on morn lears.

GAY ROO SPOTLIGHTED ONE-NIGHT-ONLY EVENT

Hostily to homosexualy is wispread among men throughout the Mlim world, east Asia, and the former Soviet Unn. Former Iranian lear Mahmoud Ahmadejad, for stance, claimed that Iran had no homosexuals. The current Print of Uganda, Yoweri Meveni, has lled homosexualy “unnatural” and “disgtg” as he has explaed why he signed a law makg certa homosexual acts punishable by life prison.

The atheistic Soviet Unn crimalized homosexualy, and current Rsian lear Vladimir Put has allied himself wh the Rsian Orthodox Church to cricize homosexualy as viant and hostily to homosexuals is not limed to regrsive areas of the example, prr to Pope Francis, the Catholic Church was formally hostile to gay rights.