Alexanr The Great: Gay or Straight?

For LGBT history month gut blogger Prof Lloyd Llewellyn-Jon (Chair of Ancient History, Cardiff Universy) asks: 'Alexanr the Great or Alexanr the Gay?' before his talk this week. * alexander was gay *

Yet, to give Stone his due, he was prepared to take on the ch the welter of homophobic cricism he received for pictg his hero close homoerotic enunter wh the Persian nuch.

For ancient Greeks there was no ntradictn between youthful homoeroticism and predomantly or wholly heterosexual adult proclivy and activy. Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Years & Years' hs clu Kg, Dire and the new sgle SanctifySce Years & Years won the BBC's Sound of 2015, Olly Alexanr has been rehgly open about his the sger says he was advised to keep quiet about beg gay when the group got their rerd al. "When a journalist did ask me about my sexualy, I said 'Y, I'm gay and this song is about a man'.

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* alexander was gay *

"The 27-year-old also talked about how he had stggled wh anxiety and prsn his youth, bee he had grown up " a society that tght me I had to behave a certa way and that beg gay was not normal" later ma a BBC documentary about his experienc, lled Growg Up Gay, and said that speakg ndidly about homosexualy had helped him bat his rponse took him by ptn, The sger has ed his mic and lyrics to talk about his experienc"I got so many msag om fans who wanted to share their story, who were stgglg wh their sexualy or genr inty, had problems at school or at home, " he said. Ltle Mix star Ja Thirlwall, who ed her 25th birthday party December to raise money for Stonewall, was also gala dner, London, was held to mark the 30th anniversary of the troductn of Sectn 28 of the 1988 Lol Government law stated that uncils should not "tentnally promote homosexualy or publish material wh the tentn of promotg homosexualy" their schools or other areas of their faced strong protts led by gay rights and equaly mpaigners until was repealed by the volved admistratn Stland 2000 and by the UK ernment wh rpect to England and Wal on Facebook, on Twter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbewsents.

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Bis, vtigatg his socials we n say that he was not gay. All thgs nsired, he may be leavg well enough alone om the world however him beg gay has not been affirmed by any thory sourc Alexanr Jr Hband Or Wife: Was He Married? Alexanr the Great or Alexanr the Gay?

ALEXANR THE GREAT OR ALEXANR THE GAY?

For LGBT history month, gut blogger Prof Lloyd Llewellyn-Jon (Chair of Ancient History, Cardiff Universy) asks: 'Alexanr the Great or Alexanr the Gay? I thk he probably was gay. It was supposed to say ‘Alexanr the Gay’, but someone translated wrong to ‘Alexanr the Great.

The qutn of Alexanr’s homosexualy, once the prerve of scholars such as Tarn whose termed attempt 1948, ‘to straighten the matter out’ (no pun tend, surely) and close future discsn down, met only wh Badian’s hatchet-job of a dissectn of Tarn’s own pedantic nservatism a later.

The sexual revolutn of the 1960s and 1970s stimulated even Classicists to thk new and excg ways, and Alexanr’s sexualy was thrown wi open for bate – classrooms, on gay polil march, popular lerature, magaz, pornography – and the strengtheng gay muni of the liberal wt happily embraced the ancient ler not only as a gay prototype, but as a gay hero. In recent s enthiastic (if flawed) gay-tert webs have been bily appropriatg Alexanr as a role mol for the morn gay man; so much so, ed, that the Cassell’s Queer Compann entry dited to the Macedonian nqueror not that Alexanr is a staple the long list of historil gays that have been ‘claimed ‘om history. The talk is not even ncerned wh iologi surroundg ancient exprsns of sexual inty eher, but do look at ntemporary exprsns of the sexual and genred self bee our foc is explorg morn ncepts of homosexual inti which have attached themselv to the figure of Alexanr the Great.

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Takg as s startg pot this lecture will exame several twenty-first century rpons to ‘Alexanr the Gay’ by people who intify themselv through a range of genrs and sexuali. For some though, Alexanr is not jt a top ten gay hero, he is the ultimate fantasy whose kiss we ntue to crave.

Passed on bee beme a gay love story stead of a fully actn-packed war film.

GAY SEX SCENE AXED FROM ALEXANR OCTOBER 3, 2004 RODNEY 135 COMMENTSTHERE’S BEEN A BUNCH OF DISCSN ON THE MOVIE BLOG ABOUT THE SEXUAL ORIENTATN OF ALEXANR THE GREAT, NONE OF WHICH I WILL GO TO NOW. BUT LOOKS LIKE THE BIG WIGS OVER AT WARNER BROS. HAVE ALSO BEEN HAVG SOME HEATED TALKS ABOUT AS WELL. DIGAL SPY GIV THIS:EXECS AT MOVIE STUD WARNER BROS. APPARENTLY BELIEVE THAT THE SCENE, WHICH SE FARRELL – WHO PLAYS BISEXUAL WARRR ALEXANR THE GREAT – ROMPG WH FRANCIS BOSCH (BAGOAS, A PERSIAN NUCH) WOULD BE TOO MUCH FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC TO TAKE.“ALEXANR WAS ALMOST CERTALY BISEXUAL, AND OLIVER STONE WANTED TO PORTRAY THAT,” A SOURCE TOLD THE NEWS . “SO THERE ARE SCEN BETWEEN COL AND WOMEN, BUT THERE’S ALSO SOME PASSNATE SCEN BETWEEN COL AND FRANCIS BOSCH. “SOME OF THE SUS AT WARNER BROS. THK THAT THE MOVIE-GOG PUBLIC JT ISN’T READY TO SEE THAT. THERE’S SOME PRETTY HEATED ARGUMENTS GOG ON OVER .”OK, AS MUCH AS I’D HATE TO ADM , I THK THE EXEC’S AT WARNER PROBABLY MA THE RIGHT CHOICE AXG THE SCENE. THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS THAT THE GENERAL MOVIE GOG DIENCE JT ISN’T READY FOR THAT KD OF THG A MAJOR HOLLYWOOD RELEASE, AND AFTER ALL, THIS IS A BS. THEY WANT TO MAKE MONEY FOR THEIR PANY, AND THEY WILL MAKE CISNS BASED ON WHAT WILL HELP THEM MAKE THE MOST MONEY… WHO WOULDN’T? THIS ISN’T A MORAL ISSUE. THE MOMENT MOVIE EXECUTIV BELIEVE GAY SCEN FILMS WILL CREASE BOX OFFICE RETURNS YOU N BET THERE WILL BE A WHOLE LOT OF . FOR NOW, THEY PROBABLY MA THE RIGHT CHOICE. FEEL EE TO LEAVE YOUR THOUGHTS THE MENTS SECTN. COMMENT WH FACEBOOK POSTED UNRNEWS CHATSHARE ON FACEBOOKTWEET ON TWTER ABOUT RODNEY VIEW ALL POSTS BY RODNEY → POST NAVIGATN

Bh-era Ameri, and yet, apparently ’s still impossible to make a succsful big-budget war film that doubl as a gay romance. The moment movie executiv believe gay scen films will crease box office returns you n bet there will be a whole lot of . I’ve always thought of Alexanr the Great as a gay superhero of sorts, but he had sexual relatns wh both mal and femal.

In the very begng, I never felt like I was gonna set out on this explicly gay journey. "I felt really unfortable wh anybody thkg I was gay... ”I knew I wasn’t straight, but I was fely not ready to accept that I was gay yet.

I felt really unfortable wh anybody thkg I was gay, terms of people the dtry, bee I thought would close doors for me. I was kd of vg people to jt assume that I was gay and then I wouldn’t have to e out. “In a way you make up for lost time bee I spent a lot of time wishg I wasn’t gay and now, I cherish so much, ” he said.

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“The more I learn about gay history and other queer people, I jt love . ""I spent a lot of time wishg I wasn’t gay and now, I cherish so much.

Alexanr starred “It’s a S, ” an acclaimed 2021 BBC seri that tells the story of gay men livg London amid the HIV/AIDS epimic of the 1980s.

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It helped me unrstand a lot about the culture I grew up and how eply homophobic was as a rult of the HIV and AIDS crisis.

”In addn to explorg LGBTQ history, Alexanr also procsed his own g-of-age an eye-openg 2017 documentary lled “Growg up Gay. ""In the very begng, I never felt like I was gonna set out on this explicly gay journey, but that's what I feel I’ve been on.

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" "It's jt so directly lked to homophobia and racism, " he add.

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"Transphobia is racism and homophobia's nasty siblg.

In the film, which st about $155 ln to produce, Alexanr is also married to Roxane, played by Rosar Dawson, but the marriage tak a back seat to his passn for his boyhood s past, Hollywood hted at classil homosexualy major films like 1960's "Spartac. " But the film dtry has never risked que so much on a blockbter film that picts a leadg man as gay or breakg wh that historil reticence, "Alexanr, " set for release by Time Warner Inc.

's Warner Brothers stud next Wednday, may refe what is acceptable to mass dienc when to heroic portrayals on the silver, which fanced "Alexanr" wh the German pany Intermedia, has taken pas to -emphasize the film's gay aspect s advertisg mpaign -- the trailer clar Alexanr's "passn" while showg a love scene between Mr.

ALEXANR: WAS ALEXANR THE GREAT GAY?

Stone, who had fal say over the film, sled back some of the gay love scen after Warner objected to them and to some of the movie's vlence. Stone refers to is that the wake of the printial electn and the passage of prohibns on gay marriage a number of stat, homosexualy has rurfaced as a foc of bate and ntroversy among cultural are already takg aim at Mr. "But historians of cema said the pictn of a gay or bisexual leadg man a major Hollywood film had ltle precent.

Hollywood's willgns to pict gay culture openly has gone cycl, generally followg society's reigng mor. Today gay characters are mon throughout seri mastream cema me much closer to acceptg homosexualy the last , ually chose to do so edi like "The Birdge, " which took $124 ln at the domtic box office for MGM s 1996 release, or "In & Out, " which had $64 ln domtic ticket sal a year Stone's films have often weathered cricism for takg extreme polil or social posns, and "Alexanr" he has hardly shied away om ntroversy. The picture has no homosexual sex scene but shows many close-ups of Alexanr and Hephaistn (both wearg eye makp) nfsg their ep affectn.

Alexanr the Great or Alexanr the Gay? - Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology - Universy of Liverpool

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