Was Alexander the Great gay?

Answer 1

We can not possible tell!
In ancient Greece bisexuality was acceptable but on the other hand homosexuality was not!( In ancient Greece you were excepted to get married and have children. If you didn't not and prefer to be a homosexual you were consider as a insulter of the Gods and the laws of nature!)
We do not have any reference from any ancient text that he was sexually involved with a man. We have a lot of references about his relations with women and also about his long lasting friendship with Hephaistion and other members of the upper aristocracy of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia.
That doesn't make him gay ! But we don't know if he was bisexual!
To correct some of the previous answerers Alexander was Greek from real Macedonia (or Macedon) the Greek state!
A lot of people mistake the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia (which is in Greece and it is still today the region of Greek Macedonia ) with a modern state that uses the same name! They are not related at all!
The confusion has started a few years ago because that small state started to use the name “Republic of Macedonia” causing a great confusion with real Macedonia in Greece.

Answer 2

You can't really be certain but i believe he was, many people were. Ancient Greece, Sparta, the most feared army in the ancient world, soldiers that were said to be demons from hades in armor. They were all primarily homosexual. At the age of eight boys were taken to an all male school and never even saw their mothers until sixteen when they went out married and had a son. Once that was done they went back to their companions. Most ancient cultures were bisexual and so it's a fifty fifty chance for Alexander.

Answer 3

No he wasn't.
There was a completely different social structure/code which has been misintepreted and poorly translated.
Homosexuality was forbidden in ancient Greece as proven by the detailed reference to the respective laws in Athens in the "κατά Τιμάρχου" speech of rhetor "Αισχίνη". This is a speech from a trial held at the time when Alexander's father, Philip was king.

Answer 4

Well, that's what a lot of people say. Actually, he was bisexual, if you wanna call it that. He had homosexual tendencies. The movie Alexander portrays him very well. And in the old days, men had orgies with both men and women. So, it's not considered gay or bi, but, normal for those days

Answer 5

Well, homosexuality in the days of Alexander was different from today. In those days women didn´t count. Men were allowed to study, to learn philosophy and art. In fact, some philosophers were homo

Answer 6

Maybe, who knows. So what if he was? He just happened to conquer the whole world (as it was known then). No small achievement for a person, gay or otherwise. (You may also note thet Michelangelo, that great painter and sculptor was also gay, and for someone closer to your world, though to a much lower scale in the field of achievement, J. Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI for decades was also gay).

Answer 7

alexander the great was like many powerful men in those time, married but with gay lovers on the side. He had boys sent to him from around, as well as rejecting female prisoners of war while his soldiers did as they pleased with them. overall, i think he was not gay, but sexually curious

Answer 8

Actually, he was Macedonian. In that society, there was no such thing as gay. Men married women for families, but believed true companionship could only be had with other men. Did he have homosexual sex? No source says, one way or another, but he did have several lifelong friends with whom he may or may not have indulged sexually, upon occasion.
Owing to his mother--not a sterling individual!--he was a mite tepid about the whole idea of marriage. Also, he spent way too much time and energy conquering the world to worry about it a whole lot.

Answer 9

Alexander the Great was not gay, bisexual maybe but not gay.

Answer 10

Alexander was Macedonian, he wasn't Gay Greek, most of Greek was Gay, Macedonian have expansion because they are not gay people like Greek who stolen Macedonian History and Aegean Macedonia, killed Macedonian in 1946. Now days Macedonian have same DNA like Ancient Macedonian, beside Greeks who have Ethiopian and Turkish heredity. He stay with his Persian wife whole time and didn't left her and because this all theories that Alexander Macedonian was with women because child is not Truth.