(July 27, 2020 at 1:04 am)Peebo-Thuhlu Wrote: At work.
So... did not exist as a 'Comunity'?
Okay then.
What, pray tell, were the Spartans and the Atheniens doing?
To beging with just a couple of groups.
Cheers.
Are you suggesting the ancient Spartans and Athenians were nothing but a community of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenders and queers? Pardon me, but that’s what it seems like you are trying to say in your polemical question to me. At any rate, I am well aware of the fact that certain cultures and societies in history (and even today) celebrated the homosexual tendency and were a lot more prominent in expressing it in contrast to most others. But that is not what I mean when I say homosexuals were never viewed as, nor did they ever view themselves, as being a community based on their peculiar sexual orientation and practices, prior to the mid-20th century. The very word homosexual is a testament to this fact. It wasn’t coined until the late 19th century. If you are arguing that the LGBTQ has existed as a community since the Bronze Age or even before that, then you should consider the fact that this community apparently didn’t even have a name to appropriately describe them.
