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Contents:
- WERE THE SPARTANS GAY? HOMOSEXUALY SPARTA, ANCIENT GREECE
- GAY HISTORY IN GREECE
- A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
WERE THE SPARTANS GAY? HOMOSEXUALY SPARTA, ANCIENT GREECE
There are may monuments to gay history Greece, bee ancient Greek culture even the greatt hero and gods uld be what we would ll gay. * gay history in greece *
Heterosexualy and homosexualy were both enuraged and expected at different stag life, wh homosexualy, mon wh prevalent ancient Greek thought, beg seen as the ial form of love and heterosexualy as sential for procreatn.
But rerds of the LGBT romanc survived homophobic revisnists and still stand as celebratns of the origal Greek (and Roman) love.
GAY HISTORY IN GREECE
* gay history in greece *
A seri of poems about Catull' gay love affairs has drawn more attentn ntemporary tim; some of gets outright vulgar. Alexanr the Great and HephatnAlexanr III, the famed kg of Macedon, que likely mataed a gay relatnship wh his general Hephatn. Ined, two of the most famed generals of their day, Epamondas and Pelopidas, were lovers who fought wh this famo band of gay warrrs.
Pdar and TheoxenThe most famo love poem wrten by Pdar to clare his love for the young Theoxen was scribed by gay rights scholar Magn Hirschfeld as "one of the most perfect love songs the Greek language. Ort and PylasThe relatnship between the two men was celebrated by Greek scholars as a tale of the wonr of homoerotic romance.
He lived wh longtime lover Psanias, who was quoted extensively on the subject of homosexual sire Plato's work.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Sce I wrote my blog post last week about my gay history exploratns, people have been askg me to say somethg more about gay history Greece. And this is very much on my md, as I am leadg Osr Wil Tours’ gay history and art tour Greece only 3 or 4 months ()!
Greece is of urse one of the great untri for gay history, bee some form or forms of same-sex love were ctomary the ancient Greek world. There is a fairly plete marble py Italy, the Napl archaeologil mm, which I have ed as the ma photo for this post, wh last year’s Osr Wil Tours Gay Italy group posed ont of . Much as the Greeks had gay hero, they also had gay gods, and the kg of the gods (also of urse a major womanizer) had a boyiend, the Trojan prce Ganyme, whom he rried off to pour the gods’ nectar, “on acunt of his bety, ” as the Iliad says.