'Gay Caveman' Story Overblown, Archaeologists Say

THE ALLURE OF GAY CAVEMEN

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"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. - EMJ & DD*___The Allure of Gay CavemenThird genrs, two spirs, and a media whout a clueby Eric Michael JohnsonIn 1993 the reputable German weekly Der Spiegelreported a mor that Otzi, the 5, 300-year-old ozen mummy disvered the Otztal Alps two years earlier, ntaed evince of the world's earlit known homosexual act. The orig of the mor, as Cecil Adams disvered, turns out to have been an April Fool's prank published the Atrian gay magaze Lambda Nachrichten.

The problem lay not wh the scientists, who were scribg prelimary fdgs that previewed some tantalizg rults, but a media culture that emphasiz sensatnalism over accuracy and beg first over beg all acunts seems that the UK Telegraph had the dub honor of beg first this se, and so dog mted two wrongs jt as many words: "Gay Caveman. Sendly, an alternative sexual orientatn do not make a person gay. " The genr rol that we've e to know as homosexual, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr were all reprented the societi, but ways that were culturally specific and likely to have been que unfaiar based on our fns.

'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 *

Gay vemen, ed. However, spe the ial siari between the gay vemen sndals of 1991 and 2011 there is a very important difference.

In ten untri (cludg where I s Canada, though not where I'm om the Uned Stat) gay marriage has the same legal regnn as straight marriage. The popular allure of the gay veman story is jt one ditn of this ongog change. Via The Man Library & Mm; New YorkShroud mystery, artist Rick Barton ptured his wildly diverse subjects a web of pen-and-k l and was fluential among a small group of fellow gay Beat movement artists 1950s and ‘60s San Francis.

9'Tuntenhs Forellenhof 1990: Gay Communism’s Short Summer'Schwul Mm; BerlInstallatn view of Tuntenhs Forellenhof 1990: Gay Communism’s Short Summer. 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.

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'Outed' By Archaeology: 5000-Year-Old 'Gay' Caveman Found * cave gay *

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. Top 10 Weird Ways We Deal Wh the Dead 5 Myths About Gay People Debunked Top 10 Mysteri of the First Humans. I am also gay.

'GAY CAVEMAN' FOUND BY ARCHAEOLOGISTS NEAR PRAGUE

This prents some problems bee uh… well Nick Cave has a b of a pattern wh his treatment of gay people, specifilly gay men, his lyrics. I had privately given up on wrg about such a cliche “Cancel Culture, ” topic as Nick Cave and gay people until I found this Redd thread, Askg queer fans for opns about Cave’s more troublome lyrics. It also signified somethg that I’ve spected for a while, which is that Cave’s fanbase do not jt happen to nta some gay people, but is perhaps disproportnately gay, somethg Cave has allud to as well.

So, there’s no lite way to troduce Cave’s songs about gay men. Nick Cave’s versn imag Stagger Lee as a gay serial killer who lik to rape men before he murrs them. Why turn a century-old folk song to a story of a psychopathic gay serial killer, and why do Cave wre so many songs about gay men tryg to rape him?

Well, the lazy answer would jt be to brand Cave a homophobe, throw him the b of nceled micians, and move on, but I don’t thk this is fair or hont.

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My reasong for this is twofold: one, Cave has a nsistent track rerd of beg iendly to the LGBT muny, pecially towards his queer fans, and there is an tertg (but not altogether fensible) athetic functn played his mic by his many gay ritur.

Atralia has a reputatn for beg more queerphobic than s Anglo-Amerin sister natns, and has a strong associatn wh gged masculy and chewg homoeroticism. Nick Cave has blurred and outright vlated the norms the past, his athetic the 80s was evotive of the overtly gay New Romantic movement, and obssive fans have long documented his close relatnship wh other Bads members, but sce the 90s, this has taken different forms.