That Gay Thread

[Peebothuhlu]

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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.

Well we can't very well expect the classical Greeks to be using modern parlance. On that we can agree.

However, we do seem to be in agreement that (Again to begin with) the classical Greeks did accept such behavior within their culture/society.

No, I am not going to quibble semantics with your self.

So, since "Batting for the same team" we acknowledge was a 'Thing' oh so long ago. That leavs your assertion rather lacking, does it not?

As for "They didn't have a name for it"? The very fact that we egen use the Latin to describe such puts paid to that sillyness.