I mentioned to breathedout that I was writing a story set in a fantasy analogue of mid 18th c France and they asked if I knew you. I am delighted that this is the first post I found by you, as the story centers around a gay man and his daughter.
Anyway, this was fascinating. I was particularly amused by the, "Hey look at this Roman dude" part of it. I feel like it's such a cliche (bringing up Greco-Roman culture as an example of acceptance of homosexulaity in order to get someone comfortable with homosexuality and then into bed with you), and a part of me has been wondering (because of this current thing I'm writing) whether it's something people actually did, or whether it's just something we do when we're portraying historic examples of homosexuality. But I feel like this is not the first example of it in an actual historic context that I've seen--though of course this is a fictional account, so perhaps it was a cliche even at the time. Hm.
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Date: 2018-12-19 05:49 am (UTC)Anyway, this was fascinating. I was particularly amused by the, "Hey look at this Roman dude" part of it. I feel like it's such a cliche (bringing up Greco-Roman culture as an example of acceptance of homosexulaity in order to get someone comfortable with homosexuality and then into bed with you), and a part of me has been wondering (because of this current thing I'm writing) whether it's something people actually did, or whether it's just something we do when we're portraying historic examples of homosexuality. But I feel like this is not the first example of it in an actual historic context that I've seen--though of course this is a fictional account, so perhaps it was a cliche even at the time. Hm.