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.
Contents:
- ALEXANR THE GREAT: GAY OR STRAIGHT?
- WAS ALEXANR THE GREAT GAY? THE ACTUAL ANSWER
- 19 - ALEXANR THE GAY AND THE GLORYHOLE THAT WAS GREECE
- ALEXANR THE GREAT OR ALEXANR THE GAY?
- ALEXANR THE GREAT’S GAY LOVERS
- ALEXANR: WAS ALEXANR THE GREAT GAY?
- EVIL TWKS AND GAY GANGSTERS: WHY WE NEED TO REMEMBER HISTORY’S HORRID HOMOSEXUALS
ALEXANR THE GREAT: GAY OR STRAIGHT?
Explore the trigug qutn of whether Alexanr the Great was gay and disver the evince for both sis regardg Alexanr the Great's homosexualy. * alexander the great gay or straight *
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. Alexanr the Great’s Relatnships wh MenAlexanr’s relatnship wh HephatnAlexanr’s relatnship wh BagoasAlexanr the Great’s Marriag and ChildrenAlexanr’s Sexual Orientatn Explaed by the Cultural Aspect of GreeksWas Alexanr the Great Gay or Straight?
One of the greatt nquerors, Alexanr the Great, has been the foc of nsirable njecture, and the qutn of whether or not he was gay remas one of the most ntent.
Alexanr’s close ti wh men like Hephatn and Bagoas have been terpreted by some as proof of his homosexualy, while others have argued that they were merely close panns. Another mon argument agast Alexanr’s claimed homosexualy is that he was married many tim to different women and had at least one child om them, Alexanr IV.
WAS ALEXANR THE GREAT GAY? THE ACTUAL ANSWER
* alexander the great gay or straight *
That is why whether Alexanr the Great was gay or not is still an open qutn today. This clus whether Alexanr the Great was gay. It’s still worth notg that this is not ncrete evince to suggt that Alexanr and Hephatn had a romantic or homosexual relatnship.
Plutarch – Life of Alexanr (Part 7 of 7)Alexanr the Great’s Marriag and ChildrenAs unterevince to the claim that Alexanr was gay, many pot to his many marriag to women and the children he had wh them. Such pairgs weren’t tomatilly seen as signs of gay or bisexual orientatn, but rather as a natural part of life.
19 - ALEXANR THE GAY AND THE GLORYHOLE THAT WAS GREECE
THE GAY LOVERS OF ALEXANDER III OF MACEDON,known as ‘THE GREAT’Alexanr the Great Note on Alexanr, the movie by Oliver Stone When Oliver Stone was thkg of dog a movie on the life of the legendary son of kg Phillip II of Macedon and queen Olympias, one unexpected obstacle stood his way: the Greek… * alexander the great gay or straight *
The close iendships often characterized ancient Greek society, and that’s why there wasn’t always sexual tensn between Alexanr the Great Gay or Straight? In ncln, is impossible to state wh certaty whether or not Alexanr the Great was gay or even bisexual, spe evince suggtg he had timate ti wh men.
Summary Wh ntemporary Wtern gay muni, Alexanr the Great is often champned as a hero and an spiratnal figure – the ultimate high-stat homosexual.
This chapter explor the var ways which he has been visualised wh the gay muny and s wir – more closeted – muny.
ALEXANR THE GREAT OR ALEXANR THE GAY?
The darker, anti-gay, readg of Alexanr is also explored the ntext of right-wg natnalism and the ary. (1999) Somethg for the Boys: Mil Theater and Gay Culture. (1995) Cassell’s Queer Compann: A Dictnary of Lbian and Gay Life and Culture.
Alexanr the Great or Alexanr the Gay?
ALEXANR THE GREAT’S GAY LOVERS
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.
ALEXANR: WAS ALEXANR THE GREAT GAY?
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. 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.
EVIL TWKS AND GAY GANGSTERS: WHY WE NEED TO REMEMBER HISTORY’S HORRID HOMOSEXUALS
For some though, Alexanr is not jt a top ten gay hero, he is the ultimate fantasy whose kiss we ntue to crave. And y, there was such thg as gay and straight ancient Greece, as there is today. However culture n mask the sexual preferenc of mori, like gays and bisexuals.