Is That Skeleton Gay? The Problem Wh Projectg Morn Ias Onto The Past

ANCIENT HANDHOLDG SKELETONS ARE MEN BUT ITALY WON’T SAY GAY

When this evince was first revealed the 1980s, reporters flocked to report that the Hasanlu Lovers were gay. Furthermore, “gay” and “straight” as discreet inti and orientatns are a product of morn society, not labels that n be applied to people the distant past.

"Late Antique social attus and Christian relig rtrictns lead to the rejectn of any hypothis of liberate maniftatn of homosexual relatnship, " the study thors wre.

“In late-ancient tim is unlikely that homosexual love uld be regnized so clearly by the people who prepared the burial, ” he told The Daily Beast by email. ”Homosexualy was well documented Roman tim. The pated the picture that lovers would be buried together, and that they were men and women, so the disvery of the two men the same grave has rearchers and historians a flurry to piece together the most likely explanatn given what’s known about that culture, s burial practic and s viewpot on homosexualy.

HAND-HOLDG SKELETONS WERE BOTH MEN… AND NO, THEY WERE NOT GAY LOVERS

Dpe the trici of historil and cultural rearch, the possibily that the two skeletons belonged to two, ancient gay men n’t be ignored. Current unrstandgs of ancient cultur n only be taken g a morn lens but nsirg that lens is largely homophobic to beg wh, bears argug that more historil figur were members of the LGBTQ+ muny, however ltle their bated sexuali are known.

Alexanr Haton and his iend John Lrens are two well-known figur who might have been gay or bisexual. Well, gay people and other members of the LGBTQ+ muny re. The slghter of gay dividuals is a srcely broached topic durg discsn of the Holot.

“Gayns” is hard to gge through skeletal specimens, personal letters and ted gus at ancient cultur, but historians, rearchers and the public need to open a dialogue about LGBTQ+ history for the good of our world. And while some news sourc are jumpg to the ncln they were gay lovers, many thk they were eher s, brothers, or tws.

GAY SKELETONS

Openly Gay Lovers In Ancient Italy? That said, many media outlets are followg the all too predictable narrative that the pair were homosexual but The Daily Mail says “ is unlikely” that the nature of their relatnship would be regnized so clearly by the people who prepared the burial. In realy, is not jt “unlikely” that the pair were homosexual, but nearly impossible, if we nsir that 5th century Italy laws forba gay sex.

In 6th century Italy, the Christian emperor Jtian I (AD 527–565) even regard homosexuals as al to environmental problems such as “fam, earthquak, and ptilenc”.