Nakena wrote:Page wrote:
As a bisexual guy, I always like to point out this possibility among historical figures, bi erasure is still a big problem. That said, I also have to acknowledge that in some cases like this, it may be that someone was gay but managed to do what had to be done to have an heir or keep up appearances, that was a thing too. I don't think we can really know, especially with someone from so long ago as Alexander.
Nah. It was fairly normal back then to have same sex lovers in ancient greece. In fact it was considered as the real deal by some and the highest form of love and sex and what not.
That wasnt at all mutually exclusive with having simultanously families or relationship with females, marriages etc. It's perfectly likely Alexander had various same-sex lovers and as well was engaged to Roxanne and went with all of that. Bi-sexual? From modern view perhaps. But back then it was kinda business as usual.
Yup- being gay was something that you did rather than something that you were.