a homo history lesson

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| - 435 B.C.E. Aristophanes publishes a series of satires that ridicule effeminate men and transvestites. It was perfectly okay to be a big homo, but you just had to be really manly about it. In fact, he didn't much like anyone who was effeminate, including women. Maybe the bull dykes were ok in his eyes?

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| - 385 B.C.E. Plato publishes his Syposium, which argues that love between males was freaking great, and love with women was lustful and only for reproduction.

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| - 350 B.C.E. Plato publishes Laws which completely contradict his Symposium; Homos are bad this time, and only straight people are responsible citizens.

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| - 338 B.C.E. Thebes had it's own army made up of only gay male couples. The theory was that lovers would fight more fiercely and cohesively than strangers.

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| - 326 B.C.E. Alexander the Great, a homo, conquers the Western world and establishes gay-friendly Hellenistic kingdoms.

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