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Do you ever wonder if there were openly gay people in Medieval Times?

Around the Roman Empire time and other civilizations that existed during that time period. Plus the "BC" time period. I've always wondered this. If they were, I bet the people back then were more accepting of them just because the Bible didn't interfere and people weren't told to believe that being gay was wrong.

- What about you?

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  • Anonymous
    9 years ago
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    Yeah, Homosexuality has existed since the beginning of time, there were probably gay people during the Medieval times, I heard in my history class that a man can marry up to 5 woman & still fool around with other "people" (applied to men & woman) but I doubt there were any openly gay people, if people didn't have freedom of speech back then, then I doubt they have freedom at all

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    @ the'supreme'one your logic is false, he was brought up to be a cup bearer, not a sex slave, you my friend need to look more into this. This kid was a trojan, they slaughtered suspected gays and the families of those. And i am sure that there were some early civiliesations that had openly gay people, i know that in medevil times the would watch lesbians do eachother as a form of entertainment

  • 9 years ago

    Uh, do you know anything about Greek and Roman history? The Island of Lesbos etc? Homosexuality was a cultural norm.

  • 9 years ago

    Yeah the Ancient Greeks loved them some gay sex. There's even a story where Zeus steals a boy to be his sex slave (Zeus and Ganymede). Same goes for the Romans.

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  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    If I had to %. between them, the heterosexual atheist. inspite of the reality that to be trustworthy, the Christian they have were given contained in the White abode in the present day's doing quite slightly what i ought to anticipate a gay president to do. i imagine he's attempting to set himself up with a legacy because the professional-gay president.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    I'm sure there were. I'm equally sure they kept quiet about it as people were a lot less tolerant of it than they are today. Those people were likely to get stoned to death or be seperated from their heads

  • 9 years ago

    I find no sense in your logic. they were more strict back then, not less.

    yes, there were gays, chances are they were all closet cases. any openly gay people would have been killed.

    Jews, blacks, women, muslims, all waited for their freedom. now we are

  • 9 years ago

    I'm sure people were gay back then.

  • Lucius
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    Probably mostly in the closet... they probably killed open gay people.

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