Kind of. Male-male relationships were widespread in Ancient Greece, but typically as part of a temporary mentor-student relationship between a teen and an adult man.
The Theban Sacred Band was exclusively gay, and more ‘recognizable’ to modern eyes, as it consisted of adult male couples who swore sacred oaths to be loyal to one another.
Who among us hasn’t sworn a sacred oath to be loyal to their best friend? That doesn’t make us gay. We just raised corgis together for 40 years in a one bedroom house to save money and asked to be buried together.
“We just had sex together in the military for a few years and expressed our undying love for each other because that’s just What You Do in the Sacred Band. No homo, right bro?”
Bro, as he picks up their adopted son: “No homo, babe”
Kind of. Male-male relationships were widespread in Ancient Greece, but typically as part of a temporary mentor-student relationship between a teen and an adult man.
The Theban Sacred Band was exclusively gay, and more ‘recognizable’ to modern eyes, as it consisted of adult male couples who swore sacred oaths to be loyal to one another.
Who among us hasn’t sworn a sacred oath to be loyal to their best friend? That doesn’t make us gay. We just raised corgis together for 40 years in a one bedroom house to save money and asked to be buried together.
“We just had sex together in the military for a few years and expressed our undying love for each other because that’s just What You Do in the Sacred Band. No homo, right bro?”
Bro, as he picks up their adopted son: “No homo, babe”