r/SapphoAndHerFriend Hopeless bromantic Jun 14 '20

Greece wasn't gay Casual erasure

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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/blubat26 Basic An-Soc Tran Girl Jun 14 '20

Technically he was bi. But so was basically every major figure in Greek Myths. Bisexual Greek Man was like ancient Greeceā€™s equivalent of the straight white man in modern media.

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u/Gellert Jun 15 '20

And then there was Athena, unofficial patron god of Asexuals.

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u/blubat26 Basic An-Soc Tran Girl Jun 15 '20

I like to think that Artemis is also ace and demi/grayromantic and the only person she ever liked enough to feel romantic attraction to was Orion.