In what culture did the king of the gods, the greatest heroes, and the greatest general all have boyfriends?  Ancient Greece, of course.  Many cultures have viewed same-sex relations more positively than America traditionally did—but no-one tops the ancient Greeks.  Male-male relations occupied a key role in their culture:  they were thought of as the way that young men...Read More

People think of Paris as a romantic city, but what they don’t always realize is that it has a long history as a specifically LGBTQ+ city.  First of all, France made homosexuality *legal* in 1791:  all sodomy laws were eliminated from the law code during the Revolution, 212 years before the Supreme Court did that in the...Read More