Twitter

The old queers I talked to before I became an old queer myself used to tell me that that gay men were referred to as "temperamental" or "special" rather than gay or queer and that they would take "weekend constitutionals" as a way of making the gay label & behavior more socially acceptable to the straight people at the time who were more accepting than most.

Couple that w knowing closeted and semi-closeted queers in my time who would go to ANY AND ALL lengths at all to insist that they didn't have gay sex despite the undeniably well known penchant for any type of men for sex and it makes me question the validity of that and other understandings of gay behavior in ancient Greece.