'Gay Caveman' Story Overblown, Archaeologists Say

THE ALLURE OF GAY CAVEMEN

Archaeologists have unearthed the 5,000-year-old remas of what they believe may have been the world's olst known gay veman. * cave gay *

"Far more likely is that he was a man wh a different sexual orientatn, homosexual or transsexual, " she add.

"But this later disvery was neher of those, leadg to believe the man was probably homosexual or transsexual, " Semeradova said.

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'GAY VEMAN' THEORY GETS A ROCKY RECEPTN

Archaeologists Prague say they've unvered a Stone-Age man buried a posn ually rerved for women — but media claims of a "gay veman" may be exaggerated, acrdg to some rearchers. * cave gay *

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Peter Runkewz / via Schwul MmOn the first May Day after the fall of the Berl Wall, about 30 gay men occupied an apartment buildg the cy’s Friedrichsha neighborhood and created what beme the Tuntenhs Forellenhof, a utopian llective of munist queers. Archaeologists Prague say they've unvered a Stone-Age man buried a posn ually rerved for women — but media claims of a "gay veman" may be exaggerated, acrdg to some rearchers. Not gay, not a vemanVova and her lleagu told reporters that the man may have belonged to a "third genr.

The skeleton has been tmpeted the media as belongg to a "homosexual veman, " but some archaeologists are skeptil. For one thg, the plexy of the third-genr ncept mak llg the skeleton "gay" an oversimplifitn, wrote Krista Killgrove, an anthropologist Chapel Hill, N.

"If this burial reprents a transgenred dividual (as well uld), that don't necsarily mean the person had a 'different sexual orientatn ' and certaly don't mean that he would have nsired himself (or that his culture would have nsired him) 'homosexual, '" Killgrove wrote. "The realy of this is gog to be far more plited than, 'This dividual was gay, '" Dobson told LiveScience. Not only is "gay" an oversimplifitn, "veman" is flat-out accurate, said John Hawks, a paleoanthropologist at the Universy of Wisns, Madison.