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It is not only the most warlike peoples, the Boeotians, Spartans, and Cretans, who are the most susceptible to this kind of love but also the greatest heroes of old: Meleager, Achilles, Aristomenes, Cimon, and Epaminondas. The book is included in Advocate's "10 Kids Books Every Queer Parent Will Love" last December 2019. Advocate said it "will certainly give 'woke' education to children at an early age" and "teaches kids the ABC's by correlating empowering words" for each letter to "teach kids how to read and express themselves". Pedagogic erotic relationships are also documented for Sparta, together with athletic nudity for women. During the year 610 B.C., a group of teenage girls was documented singing classic hymns about their Gods and Goddesses, as well as ties to them, while involved in ploughing rituals in a mountain range. [33] Nevertheless, such hymns would further in content as the girls flirt with and tease one another with hints of sexual energy. [33] Plato's Symposium mentions women who "do not care for men, but have female attachments". [34] In general, however, the historical record of love and sexual relations between women is sparse. [7] Scholarship and controversy [ edit ] The first recorded appearance of a deep emotional bond between adult men in ancient Greek culture was in the Iliad (800 BC). Homer does not depict the relationship between Achilles and Patroclus as sexual. The ancient Athenians emphasised the supposed age difference between the two by portraying Patroclus with a beard in paintings and pottery, while Achilles is clean-shaven, although Achilles was an almost godlike figure in Greek society. This led to a disagreement about which to perceive as erastes and which eromenos among elites such as Aeschylus and Pausanias [ citation needed], since Homeric tradition made Patroclus out to be older but Achilles stronger. It has been noted, however, that the depictions of characters on pottery do not represent reality and may cater to the beauty standards of ancient Athens. Other ancients such as Xenophon held that Achilles and Patroclus were simply close friends.

Plutarch (1917). "Pelopidas 18.5". In Bernadotte Perrin (ed.). Plutarch's Lives. Vol.V. W. Heinemann. pp.385–387. Archived from the original on 2023-04-24 . Retrieved 2020-02-08.

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Cohen, David (1994). Law, Sexuality, and Society: The Enforcement of Morals in Classical Athens. Cambridge University: Cambridge University Press. p.6. ISBN 9780521466424. Alexander was overwhelmed by his grief for Hephaestion, so much that Arrian records that Alexander "flung himself on the body of his friend and lay there nearly all day long in tears, and refused to be parted from him until he was dragged away by force by his Companions". [31] Some have suggested that they shared a homosexual relationship together, however historians have challenged that claim, stating instead that Hephaestion was "his closest and dearest friend". [32] Love between adult women [ edit ] Davidson, James. "Why Were The Ancient Greeks So Confused About Homosexuality, Asks James Davidson" The Guardian, 2007 The subject has caused controversy in modern Greece. In 2002, a conference [ which?] on Alexander the Great was stormed [ clarification needed] as a paper about his homosexuality was about to be presented. When the film Alexander, which depicted Alexander as romantically involved with both men and women, was released in 2004, 25 Greek lawyers threatened to sue the film's makers, [39] but relented after attending an advance screening of the film. [40] See also [ edit ]

The Left is reportedly teaching kids LGBT terminology at a very young age through a book entitled "The GayBCs," and many do not like it. During the Lelantine War between the Eretrians and the Chalcidians, before a decisive battle the Chalcidians called for the aid of a warrior named Cleomachus (glorious warrior). He answered their request, bringing his lover to watch. Leading the charge against the Eretrians he brought the Chalcidians to victory at the cost of his own life. The Chalcidians erected a tomb for him in the marketplace in gratitude. [ citation needed] Love between adult men [ edit ] Sex between two males engraved on an agate gem with a Greek inscription. 1st century BC Sen. Rand Paul Grills Biden’s Transgender HHS Appointee, Likens Sex-Change Procedures To Genital Mutilation The Virginian-Pilot added that the book was Webb's first that attempts "to help readers ages 4 to 8 begin to have a dialogue about identity with their loved ones." The GayBCs,” released last month by Quirk Books, is authored by a gay graphic designer who wants to ensure parents are having a dialogue with their children about their sexual orientation at a very young age.Hearthside Books in Juneau is promoting books for the holiday season, and its catalog features a book for the grand-babies: “Gay BCs”.

A" IS NOT FOR "ALLY". Fellow queer folks, please, PLEASE stop the damaging erasure of asexual and aromantic people. This cute picture book covers just about every other major LGBTQIA+ identity, from nonbinary to pansexual, but still starts its alphabet with allies and ignores the existence of asexuality. I almost cried on the floor at BEA when I opened this ARC. Such a huge disappointment.Greek lawyers halt Alexander case". BBC News. 2004-12-03. Archived from the original on 2017-12-05 . Retrieved 2006-08-25. The definitions are pretty good -- like "Bisexual" is "Someone who is attracted to more than one gender" rather than a more binary definition. The ancient Greeks did not conceive of sexual orientation as a social identity as modern Western societies have done. Greek society did not distinguish sexual desire or behavior by the gender of the participants, but rather by the role that each participant played in the sex act, that of active penetrator or passive penetrated. [7] The ancient Greeks, in the context of the pederastic city-states, were the first to describe, study, systematize, and establish pederasty as a social and educational institution. It was an important element in civil life, the military, philosophy and the arts. [18] There is some debate among scholars about whether pederasty was widespread in all social classes, or largely limited to the aristocracy. The GayBCs is a heartwarming and accessible gift to show kids and adults alike that every person is worthy of being celebrated. A bonus glossary offers opportunities for further discussion of complete terms, communities, and inclusive identities.

Considerable controversy has engaged the scholarly world concerning the nature of same-sex relationships among the ancient Greeks described by Thomas Hubbard in the Introduction to Homosexuality in Greece and Rome, A Source Book of Basic Documents, 2007, p.2: "The field of Gay Studies has, virtually since its inception, been divided between 'essentialists' those who believe in an archetypical pattern of same gender attraction that is universal, transhistorical, and transcultural, and "social constructionists", those who hold that patterns of sexual preference manifest themselves with different significance in different societies and that no essential identity exists between practitioners of same-gender love in, for instance, ancient Greece and post industrial Western society. Some social constructionists have even gone so far as to deny that sexual preference was a significant category for the ancients or that any kind of subculture based on sexual object-choice existed in the ancient world", p. 2 (he cites Halperin and Foucault in the social constructionist camp and Boswell and Thorp in the essentialist; cf. E. Stein for a collection of essays, Forms of Desire: Sexual Orientation and the Social Constructionist Controversy, 1992). Hubbard states that "Close examination of a range of ancient texts suggests, however, that some forms of sexual preference were, in fact, considered a distinguishing characteristic of individuals. Many texts even see such preferences as inborn qualities and as "essential aspects of human identity..." ibid. Hubbard utilizes both schools of thought when these seem pertinent to the ancient texts, pp.2–20.I just thought of other little 5-year-olds who are just kind of starting to notice things and thought what would be the best thing for them that would be something that is inviting, but also something that they could use their own words to communicate. Shapiro, H. A. (Apr 1981). "Courtship Scenes in Attic Vase-Painting". American Journal of Archaeology. The University of Chicago Press. 85 (2): 135, 143, 145. doi: 10.2307/505033. JSTOR 505033. S2CID 192965111. Archived from the original on 14 April 2022 . Retrieved 14 April 2022.