The Flame, the Gay Bar of Ann Arbor, MI, 1949-1998 · "Sunshe, this is Mr. Horowz": The Flame, the Gay Bar of Ann Arbor, MI, 1949-1998, by Rostom Mli and Brian Whener · OutHistory

Contents:

• WAS ACHILL GAY? WHAT WE KNOW FROM CLASSIL LERATURE
• WAS ACHILL GAY? TWTER ERS BATE AFTER RURFACED 2011 BOOK!
• ACRDG TO HISTORY, WAS ACHILL GAY? HERE IS WHY THE LEGENDARY WARRR MAY HAVE BEEN A HOMOSEXUAL
• THE PROFOUND GAY LOVE STORI OF THE OLD GUARD AND SONG OF ACHILL
• IS ACHILL GAY?
• "SUNSHE, THIS IS MR. HOROWZ": THE FLAME, THE GAY BAR OF ANN ARBOR, MI, 1949-1998, BY ROSTOM MLI AND BRIAN WHENER

WAS ACHILL GAY? WHAT WE KNOW FROM CLASSIL LERATURE

One of the most asked qutns of all time is: was Achill gay?

One of the ma arguments that suggt he might have been gay is the exprsn of love between Achill and his clost iend Patrocl, who he had known sce childhood. Some thk he was bisexual, sce there is evince of his romantic attachments to both men and women, while others see his ep attachment to Patrocl as a nfirmatn that he was gay. LGBT is still a popular term ed to discs genr and sexual mori, but all GSRM are wele beyond lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people who nsent to participate a safe space.

WAS ACHILL GAY? TWTER ERS BATE AFTER RURFACED 2011 BOOK!

Was Achill gay? Achill is a key character Homer’s, the character is trendg for another reason as social media ers have been talkg about the book Song of Achill, promptg the qutn among many of them – ‘Was Achill gay’?

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A blog article by the Brish Mm not that there were “no words ancient Greek for ‘homosexual’ and ‘heterosexual’ classil Athens relatnships between olr, often married, men and younger men were a normal part of social life” stance, Achill has scribed Patrocl Homer’s Iliad as “the man I loved beyond all other ras, loved as my own life”. Early archaeology took place durg an era which homosexualy was owned upon and regard as s.

ACRDG TO HISTORY, WAS ACHILL GAY? HERE IS WHY THE LEGENDARY WARRR MAY HAVE BEEN A HOMOSEXUAL

Homosexuals were sulted and regard as effemate (as this was also an age when women were still nsired "weak").

Homosexualy was not a pot of ntentn as has been the more recent past.

Achill Gay.

THE PROFOUND GAY LOVE STORI OF THE OLD GUARD AND SONG OF ACHILL

Joe and Nicky aren’t the ma protagonists director Ga Prce-Bythewood’s film, but sce the film’s release on July 10, they’re the characters who have garnered a lot of attentn bee of how rare is that gay men are featured actn movi. That The Old Guard’s Joe and Nicky are unapologetic about their love allows queer people, and gay men particular, the opportuny to see that throughout all of history, we’ve been there all along — and such a mastream, typilly heteronormative medium, no ls.

At s heart is a simple msage: that straight people might not ever fully unrstand what ’s like to be gay and to fd love. Beyond that not-great movie, Achill and Patrocl’s homosexualy has been bated over and over, ually g down to dissectg ancient Greek culture and the semantics of “gay”. “I did not liberately set out to tell a liberately ‘gay’ love story; rather, I was eply moved by the love between the two characters—whose rpect and affectn for each other, spe the horrors around them, mol the kd of relatnship we all n aspire to.

Though Miller says she didn’t liberately set out to create a gay love story, ’s a fantasy that unravels and jtifi the feelgs and vulnerabily of the LGBTQ experience, and of gay men particular.

IS ACHILL GAY?

Lookg, to the ia that they were homosexual lovers now is provg to be hard for me to fd nvcg proof for the argument.

In this brief gui we are gog to answer the qutn ‘’Is Achill gay? We will analyze the sexualy of Achill, the protagonist of the Iliad, a renowned book of classil Achill gay?

"SUNSHE, THIS IS MR. HOROWZ": THE FLAME, THE GAY BAR OF ANN ARBOR, MI, 1949-1998, BY ROSTOM MLI AND BRIAN WHENER

No, Achill is not gay. Were they iends, ras, ras--arms or were they lovers followg the mols of Greek homosexual love? This is one of the arguments that have been ed most often to nclu that the md of Homer, if there was someone wh this name, the relatnship of Achill and Patrocl did have erotic urse, even the most darg have not wanted to prove that both hero were exclively homosexual, sce we are told that both shared their tent wh female slav.

In fact, Achill had had a prev relatnship wh one of the dghters of Lies of Scyro, Deidamia, om whom his son Neoptolem was our pot of view is impossible to prove om Homer’s vers alone that a homosexual relatnship existed between Achill and Patrocl. Although Homer do not say so openly, most Greeks, at least om archaic tim, did see the relatnship of Achill and Patrocl an erotic uld not be otherwise, they terpreted their relatnship based on their own visn of homosexual love, wh an eromenos, a younger, passive part of the relatnship, and an erast, a mature man who would be the active part all example of this n be found Achyl’ tragedy The Myrmidons, of which unfortunately only a few agments have survived, and which the playwright prents Achill weepg after the ath of Patrocl and statg bluntly that he missed the bety of her body and the tenrns of her generatns later, Plato, the Banquet, also puts the mouths of some of his characters statements this sense.