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20 GAY GREEK GODS
A gay cupbearer on Mount Olymp? While tolerance is often prented as a sign of civilizatn's advancement, a readg of Greek mythology reveals greater acceptance of homosexualy ancient Athens than n be boasted wh today's world religns. The LGBT Greek gods and migods prove gay culture is no morn ventn.
While Homer never explicly stat a gay relatnship between Achill and sikick Patrocl, many scholars read a romantic nnectn between the two, as only Patrocl ever drew out a passnate si to the famoly arrogant warrr. Rearcher Johanna Hypatia-Cybelaia wr that lbian and gay vote worshipped her as Artemis Orthia, and that lbian port Pamphilia referred to the godss hymn as Artemis Pergaea.
Above: Athena, center, a mural by John Sger SargentAphrodeWhile the godss of love is not intified promently as lbian herself, the Greek poet Sappho (as sapphic) of Lbos (y, as lbian) told many homoerotic tal and named Aphrode as the greatt patron and ally of lbians and homosexuals wh the Greek pantheon of gods. Above: Enrique Simo, El Juic Paris (1904)ErosWhile the bt-known myths of Eros pict the son of Aphrode as a fertily god -- the versn that proved spiratnal to the popularized Roman god Cupid -- later Greek myths portrayed Eros as one of several wged erot, and the one regard as a protector of homosexual culture, acrdg to rearch the scholarly book Among Women: From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic the Ancient World. While tolerance is often prented as a sign of civilizatn's progrs, a readg of Greek mythology reveals greater acceptance of homosexualy ancient Athens than n be seen wh today's world religns.
QUEERG PAGANISM: A GAY PRACTNER’S PERSPECTIVE OF WIC-CRAFT
The Crown of Life is not lodged the sun: the wise gods have buried eply where the thoughtful will not fd , nor the good: but the Gay On, the Adventuro On, the Carels Plungers, they will brg to the wise and astonish them. Here’s a list of bisexual, gay and LGBT occult personali—om ancient mythology to the morn era.
In one rnchy tale, Set and Hos, both claimants to Osiris’ throne, e gay sex as a means to tablish superry over each other. In Greek myths, the gods exprs their virily heterosexual as well as homosexual relatnships. Some passag are pecially homoerotic or ht at LGBT inty:.
His fame shield him om accatns of sodomy, but his wrgs suggt that he was a closeted homosexual, or at least had homoerotic tennci. ” He was also acced of homosexual practic several German-language journals. enzied sexual sire, both heterosexual and homosexual.