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THE GAY ROMAN EMPEROR GENE
3 of the men would be homosexual/bisexual his clatns.
Two would be wh normal statistil viatn, three would be a ltle odd but perhaps explible if we theorized that the Cldians were rryg a male homosexualy gene, but twelve of thirteen do seem a ltle improbable. If Juli Caar had homosexual relatns, is generally thought that they were polilly motivated. He is what we would ll an “opportunistic homosexual.
He’s the perfect stereotype of a homosexual as prented wh homophobic lerature: angry, smothered, ivolo, spoiled-rotten, effemate, tensely narcissistic and lackg self-ntrol. Of the Roman Emperors, Hadrian the clost to the popular morn notn of “gay” — that is, someone who prefers men both romantilly and sexually and who wants to have relatnships, not jt sex. Yet even still there’s a huge amount of diversy terms of their sexual behavur, the reasons for that behavur, their likely sexual orientatn, their sexual motivatns and what would mean to refer to them as “homosexual” or even “bisexual.