20 Gay Greek Gods

Contents:

• HOW TO SAY GAY GREEK
• GAY DICTNARY GREEK
• 20 GAY GREEK GODS
• GAY ATHENS – A GUIDE TO THE GREEK CAPITAL FOR LGBTQIA2S+
• THE MYTH OF THE ANCIENT GREEK ‘GAY UTOPIA’
• GAY GREECE: QUEER CULTURE, LOL LIFE, AND WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW! ??
• GAY HISTORY IN GREECE

HOW TO SAY GAY GREEK

But first some rmatn about the language and where is is the official language of Greece and Cyps, belongg to the Indo-European fay, and spoken by about fifteen ln Greece, homosexual behavr between men was legal as of 1950 (between women was never prohibed) and the age of nsent was equal 2015. They have anti-discrimatn laws and agast hate speech (2014) and 2015 they approved the civil unn but not homoparental adoptn.

GAY DICTNARY GREEK

At the begng of the century, Greek society had a negative view of sexual diversy, but today that homophobia is beg diluted although persists the polil class. In Greece there is a lot of activism, culture and LGBT bs and pri has been celebrated sce 2005, currently several greece this Greek Gay Dictnary we highlight the exprsns kunistós and digidangas explaed our post kunistós, illtratn of Gay Slang Collectn, and also the exprsn Sikiá explaed on god hat figs, illtratn om our Prott Collectn. Relatg gays to female relativ is a equent fact many languag, such as the Japane word Onee, which means olr sister, or the English word Aunt.

20 GAY GREEK GODS

It may have to do wh the suatn that effemate homosexual men lived not many years ago when the bachelorhood and the habatn wh the fay were almost evable issu.

The first one is an sult for homosexual men and the send is an sult to men of the asshole or stupid style, although n also be ed lloquially among iends.

This femy is transferred to the Turkish language sce ibne means “feme form of son”, which ends up g as an sult to homosexual men, nsired as stupid or as women. +Ksefoniméni (Ξεφωνημένη)Ksefoniméni (Ξεφωνημένη) uld be translated as a screamg woman and is ed to refer ntemptuoly to homosexual men.

GAY ATHENS – A GUIDE TO THE GREEK CAPITAL FOR LGBTQIA2S+

Check our post for the Gay Slang Collectn for more rmatn on this exprsn, and, above all, to know why the sign we have created to illtrate this Greek word is the stctns for the assembly of a seaw. +Lúgra (Λούγκρα)The word Lúgra (Λούγκρα) is a rogatory exprsn agast homosexual men that would have the meang of “very vic homosexual”+Pisoghléntis (Πισωγλέντης)Pisoghléntis (Πισωγλέντης) is a rogatory exprsn whose leral translatn is “rebel back” and is an sult to bottom homosexual men who “like om behd. +Sikiá (Συκιά)The leral translatn to the English language of Sikiá (Συκιά) is a fig tree, and is also rogatory slang for a homosexual man.

+Tiútos (Τοιούτος)The translatn to the English language of Tiútos (Τοιούτος) is old-fashned and is also rogatory slang for a homosexual man. 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 MYTH OF THE ANCIENT GREEK ‘GAY UTOPIA’

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. 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. One historil suatn that is often sourced the name of gay pri is the ancient Greek society and several ancient Greek historil figur that are falsely portrayed as gay pop culture.

Many morn terpreters of the story, however, have felt fortable wh g the characters’ relatnship as evince of gay glorifitn ancient Greek lerature and culture. Even though the available historil sourc clearly dite that the Greek kg had different female lovers each night, he is nsired the most famo gay man of antiquy, simply bee a screenwrer Hollywood imaged him as one.

GAY GREECE: QUEER CULTURE, LOL LIFE, AND WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW! ??

Sce then, as MacDowell pots out, homosexualy ancient Greece “has been discsed a good al, maly om a soclogil and anthropologil pot of view. It wouldn’t be much of an exaggeratn to speculate that a rated and experienced historian such as Dover avoid this acunt of the official stance of Athens on homosexualy. Instead, he based his rearch and nclns on certa piec of such art as vase patg and the ialized pictn of homoerotic relatnships scribed briefly by Plato some of his works.

As noted an article on “In ancient Greece, there was not a word to scribe homosexual practic: they were simply part of aphrodisia, love, which clud men and women alike. The rt of the ancient Greek cy-stat would be classified as “macho” societi nowadays, wh Sparta beg disapprovg of men who engaged homosexual activi.

GAY HISTORY IN GREECE

The Sacred Band of Theb feated even the SpartansGreek warrrs — artistic image (Image:Artstatn/@Aliaksandr Tryzon)The Sacred Band was an ele ary un om Theb prisg 150 gay upl.

Depicted on Ancient Greek pottery (Image: Wikimedia Commons)The Thebans believed gay warrrs fought better orr to imprs and protect their lovers. If a lover fell durg a battle, his partner would fight even harr to avenge his ath.Three thoand years ago Ancient Greece, beg gay or lbian was not a crime.