Contents:
- 20 GAY GREEK GODS
- 20 GAY GREEK GODS
- CONTEMPORARY GREEK MALE HOMOSEXUALI: GREEK GAY MEN'S EXPERIENC OF THE FAY, THE MILARY AND THE LGBT MOVEMENT
- WERE THE SPARTANS GAY? HOMOSEXUALY SPARTA, ANCIENT GREECE
20 GAY GREEK GODS
A gay cupbearer on Mount Olymp? While tolerance is often prented as a sign of civilizatn's advancement, a readg of Greek mythology reveals greater acceptance of homosexualy ancient Athens than n be boasted wh today's world religns. The LGBT Greek gods and migods prove gay culture is no morn ventn.
While Homer never explicly stat a gay relatnship between Achill and sikick Patrocl, many scholars read a romantic nnectn between the two, as only Patrocl ever drew out a passnate si to the famoly arrogant warrr. Rearcher Johanna Hypatia-Cybelaia wr that lbian and gay vote worshipped her as Artemis Orthia, and that lbian port Pamphilia referred to the godss hymn as Artemis Pergaea.
Above: Athena, center, a mural by John Sger SargentAphrodeWhile the godss of love is not intified promently as lbian herself, the Greek poet Sappho (as sapphic) of Lbos (y, as lbian) told many homoerotic tal and named Aphrode as the greatt patron and ally of lbians and homosexuals wh the Greek pantheon of gods.
20 GAY GREEK GODS
Above: Enrique Simo, El Juic Paris (1904)ErosWhile the bt-known myths of Eros pict the son of Aphrode as a fertily god -- the versn that proved spiratnal to the popularized Roman god Cupid -- later Greek myths portrayed Eros as one of several wged erot, and the one regard as a protector of homosexual culture, acrdg to rearch the scholarly book Among Women: From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic the Ancient World. But rerds of the LGBT romanc survived homophobic revisnists and still stand as celebratns of the origal Greek (and Roman) love.
A seri of poems about Catull' gay love affairs has drawn more attentn ntemporary tim; some of gets outright vulgar. Alexanr the Great and HephatnAlexanr III, the famed kg of Macedon, que likely mataed a gay relatnship wh his general Hephatn. Ined, two of the most famed generals of their day, Epamondas and Pelopidas, were lovers who fought wh this famo band of gay warrrs.
CONTEMPORARY GREEK MALE HOMOSEXUALI: GREEK GAY MEN'S EXPERIENC OF THE FAY, THE MILARY AND THE LGBT MOVEMENT
Pdar and TheoxenThe most famo love poem wrten by Pdar to clare his love for the young Theoxen was scribed by gay rights scholar Magn Hirschfeld as "one of the most perfect love songs the Greek language. Ort and PylasThe relatnship between the two men was celebrated by Greek scholars as a tale of the wonr of homoerotic romance.
WERE THE SPARTANS GAY? HOMOSEXUALY SPARTA, ANCIENT GREECE
He lived wh longtime lover Psanias, who was quoted extensively on the subject of homosexual sire Plato's work. "Contemporary Greek Male Homosexuali: Greek Gay Men's Experienc of the Fay, the Milary and the LGBT Movement.
Abstract: This this provis an ethnographic analysis of how Greek gay men experience the ways which their sexualy is subject to ‘negotiatn’ the fay and the ary, how the ‘negotiatns’ fluence and sometim even hib the creatn of an LGBT movement. I argue that the theoretil amework of timi and dropi (honour and shame) n still be a valuable explanatory tool for an unrstandg of Morn Greek homosexuali.
As a rult, silence be a fence mechanism that many of my gay terlocutors and their fai employ to al wh homosexualy. This varied silence often hibs the sense of pri the man’s homosexualy and turn prevents him om jog the movement that would require him to be vol about his sexual self. What they often scribe as the ‘homo-social’ environment of the ary acted as a talyst for several of them to e to terms wh their homosexualy.