did gay people exist in the past?

Question

or is it the society that created those type of people..
are you like born gay?
idk i was just wondering
it seems to be a huge deal those days.

everyone seems to have different ideas about whether you choose to be gay or not
but i was wondering
like why would soemeone choose to be gay
when theres so much criticsm....
they shouldnt care wht ppl think..but some do..and i know peopel who are ashamed of being gay

Answer 1

Yes they existed in Bible times also. Homosexuality is why God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah
They are NOT BORN GAY----they choose to be gay.
God says it is an abomination to Him. God did not make them that way.

Answer 2

Yes, it's called NATURE and it's always been this way that some people are born straight or gay. Too bad the bible beaters don't want to accept this fact of life, but it's true for many people. I was born a lesbian and I know I was not meant for men. You can put a group of young boys and girls together on an island with no outside influences about sexuality, and some of those kids will have crushes, arousal and feelings for the same sex, and some kids will desire the opposite sex. Nature makes the rules, and nobody else. And yes, gays can reproduce! People don't typically "choose" to be gay any more than straight people choose to be straight! I have occasionally met a person who had given up being straight after being raped or sick of being mistreated, and they gave homosexuality a try and liked it better. Most gays are born gay, though. It is about whatever nature has given us, and it's not unhealthy. And for anyone who is ashamed to be gay, just remember that you deserve to be who you are and live a happy life. The only person who you have to please is YOU. We all get one shot to live our own lives, so you may as well be proud of what you are regardless of what anybody thinks.

PS - No, I wasn't molested, abused or anything. My father is a minister (who was a cop), and my mother is a nurse. Neither of them used drugs and they gave us a good home.

Answer 3

Famous Ancient Greek gay people:
Hippocrates
Achilles (He didn't really exist, but in the story, the guy that in "Troy" was his cousin was actually his lover).
Several of the Greek gods were bisexual.

The Greek poet Sappho, who lived on the island of Lesbos (hence where "lesbian" comes from), wrote love poems to other women.

Greek society was very open about homosexuality. The very sexist philosopher and teacher Socrates even said that relationships between two men were "better" or "purer" than between a man and a woman, because the woman "ruined" it.

Many of the Roman emperors had sex with men.

There is a Japanese legend wherein a fox that can turn into a man gets involved with another man.

Oscar Wilde was gay; the French poet Rimbaud was attracted to men; the French poet Verlaine was attracted to Rimbaud.

There have been gay people as long as there have been people.

Answer 4

Yes people are born gay and a friend of mine even found some research and posted it in a bulletin on myspace about 2 months back that there was evidence that in Midevil Europe that it was well known as they would have cerimonies for gay people to live together and nobody had a problem with it then. Too bad people can't get over it now.

Answer 5

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Alexander the Great, ancient Athenian military genius Alcebiades (450-404 B.C.), Oscar Wilde, King James (whom the King James Bible is named after), James Buchannan (15th US president from 1857-1861), Sappho, Magnus Hirschfeld (German Doctor who started the first campaign for what we call GLBTQ rights in the late 1800's), Roman emperor Hadrian, Michelangelo, Walt Whitman, and Alan Turing (mathamatician, father of modern computing, broke the German's code in WWII), just to name a few of the more famous examples.

All of the above people had relationships with members of the same gender. Some with both. Though of course it should be noted that they all lived before the word "gay" was in use. That specific term is a social identification that would have meant as little to them as the term "black" would have meant to St. Augustine (who was North African).

Answer 6

Sweetie, for as long as man has existed, homosexuality has existed. No matter what, you're born gay. Later in life, you find out that you are really gay. The truth is though, it doesn't make a person any different. There is no reason to be afraid of people like us, because we're simply the same as before, just now, we finally know who we are. People say that its a sin, but those kind of people also don't know that a woman has the right to choose what she should do with her own body.

Your friends shouldn't feel ashamed for being gay. There's nothing wrong with it. They are who they are. People don't choose to be gay, thats just the way things came to be for them. They should be proud for it. They should be proud to know that they found out who they truly were. The people who are telling you that its wrong are getting their ideas from a book written by other people like them.

Oh, and if anybody tells you that its a disease that can be gotten rid of through prayer and therapy, don't believe them. They're reliability on it happening is as reliable as viagra actually increasing the size of your boyfriends penis (ie its not true and is a load of bs). All it does is make the patient insane and more of a mental wreck than they already were, and possibly ending up molesting children on the local church altar.

In any case, should you have anymore questions to ask me about people like us, don't hesitate to email me. My email is in my inbox.

Oh yeah, and sodom and gomorrah weren't turned to ashes because they were gay villages. Its because they didn't treat the visiting angels very nicely. There's a difference. Think before you speak.

Answer 7

Yes they existed in the past.
As for being born gay, i think so. But I alson think that some(not all) choose to be that way. Homosexuals are the most persecuted group in the world and probably in the histore of the world. Its hard to imaging that anyone would choose to make themselves such a target. Alot of them are rejected by friends and families and some are even beat and killed.
The ones that I think choose to be that way (as I said before a very small number) I think its a sexual reason and I know one person(I'd guess you'd call him bi-sexual) who has sex with men because he likes to dominate. He feels more manly to be able to make another man submit to him in that way

Answer 8

*sigh* (not at the questioner)

1. Homosexuals have always existed.
2. Evidence is continuing to increase that we are born gay. Even some of our enemies now admit that, and are calling for eugenics to eliminate us once the exact cause is determined.
3. It's a big deal because of the religious extremists (note some of the answers -- WRONG answers by the way - that you have already received).

Now, in response to the wrong answers.

The myth of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah (and the other cities of the Plains, the whole list including: Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, Zeboim, and Bela) predates Judaism -- and is drawn from Sumerian myth. Even in the Biblical version - which has been cleaned up to kind of reflect monotheism (the Sumerian version reflects a battle between the gods En.lil and En.ki in which the Cities of the Plains sided with En.ki and En.lil called for Anu (his father and chief god of the Sumerian pantheon at one time) to allow the I.gig.i to cast their darts down to earth -- which they did, causing great fire and destruction and clouds of poisoned gas -- it is from this myth that the Lamentation texts of Uruk and other Sumerian cities come -- reflecting heaps of dead cattle piled up outside other cities from the clouds of death that arose from the darts -- and reflecting people sickening and puking up blood and dying, and even one goddess trying to protect her city and her people [you would have to gain an understanding of Sumerian religion for some of this to make sense, but each city had a chief god or goddess] and rising up to meet the cloud of death and "like a mortal, she died" -- really "apocolyptic" stuff. ), G_d was clearly not omniscient, as he decided to "go down and see" -- did he not? and he had to send angels into the cities to determine if there were 10 righteous men --- the idea of deity had not, at that time, yet evolved to the point of omniscience, omnipresence and omnipotence -- attributes we automatically assume now. Thus I say kind of reflecting monotheism. In any event, even in the Biblical version as written in the Torah -- inhospitality is reflected as the great sin, and in period Jewish Talmudic teachings, through the time of Christ, did not refelct homosexuality as a cause for the destruction.

Kind thoughts,

Reyn
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http://www.rebuff.org

Answer 9

I do not think that people can choose to be gay or not but rather what they ight have stronger feelings for which sex they choose. I choose woman because I have a better connection with them. I have plenty of male friends but female is what makes me feel safe. That is a choice and a yearning but then take in to affect that I every male (dad, grandpa and uncles) has proven to be a loser so that affect my decision/unwilling choice for female affection.

Answer 10

Yes, people are born that way:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002340883_gayscience19m.html
http://www.utexas.edu/courses/bio301d/Topics/Gay/Text.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/03/09/60minutes/main1385230.shtml
http://www.skeptictank.org/gaygene.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3735668.stm

Yes, they existed in the past: Oscar Wilde, Richard III (the LionHeart), Alexander the Great, Emperor Hadrian, Frederick the Great, Nijinsky, etc.

Actually, this is Gay History Month.
http://glbthistorymonth.com

Answer 11

all of Sparta was compulsorily gay the boys were buggered in the aggoie

and on the isle of lesbos the poetry school was lesbian

in short it didn't matter if you were a lesbian you had sex with a man any way and children
and for gay men, well if you didn't hide it you were killed or Greek