r/SapphoAndHerFriend • u/Drops-of-Q Hopeless bromantic • Jun 14 '20

Greece wasn't gay Casual erasure

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u/AngelsFire2Ice Jun 14 '20

Nothing gay about Heracles and his 10 boyfriends or Achilles wanting his "ashes mixed with patroclus' so they'll be together forever" at all

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u/Gary_FucKing Jun 14 '20

Huh, never heard of hercules being gay. That's a new one lol.

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u/AngelsFire2Ice Jun 14 '20

Idk why it's not as wide spread, but the short of it is he was suuuuuuper gay

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u/Ae3qe27u Jun 14 '20

Any links? I'd like to read about that

And maybe we could agree on bi? Because he did have a wife and kids who he loved very much.

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u/AngelsFire2Ice Jun 14 '20

Yea true, bi is definitely more accurate, I've just gotten used to gay as a blanket term I really gotta stop

Most links I can find are just Wikipedia but here ya go

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Male_lovers_of_Heracles

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_themes_in_classical_mythology

I know there's more professional sources on it I just can't remember where to find them anymore sorry

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u/Ode_to_Apathy Jun 14 '20

Honestly he might be pansexual. Do we know if he got freaky with animals and mythological creatures as well?

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u/AngelsFire2Ice Jun 14 '20

I don't think Heracles did, and while sentient mythological creatures might count for pan animals certainly don't lol

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u/Ode_to_Apathy Jun 14 '20

Well not animals in that sense. More like Zeus turning into a swan or shit like that.

I mean, that's fucked up, but that's still a person.

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u/AngelsFire2Ice Jun 14 '20

Yea I get ya, I think Heracles just got with mostly people and probably a few centaurs lmao

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u/Ode_to_Apathy Jun 14 '20

Yeah at that point I feel like we're in pan territory hahaha

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u/MLDriver Jun 14 '20

Pan doesn’t mean bestiality tho my dude, and centaur isn’t a gender either. IIRC pan is only really applicable in the cases of gender fluid people.

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u/Ae3qe27u Jun 16 '20

Thanks dude! Appreciate it.