History of Homosexuals

Homosexuality is widely encountered in the animal kingdom.[4]HYPERLINK \l "cite_note-Biological_Exuberance:_Animal-4"[5] Among humans, the prevalence of homosexuality is difficult to determine accurately; studies suggest between two and twenty percent of the population exhibit some degree of homosexual sensibility, though in many earlier cultures homosexual relations were prevalent. Throughout history, individual aspects of homosexuality have been admired or condemned according to various societies' sexual norms. When praised, those aspects were seen as a way to improve society;[6] when condemned, particular activities were seen as a sin or a disease, and some homosexual behavior was prohibited by law. Since the middle of the 20th century homosexuality has been gradually delisted as a disease and decriminalized in nearly all developed countries.[7] However, the legal status of homosexual relations varies widely by country and there remain jurisdictions in which certain homosexual behaviors are crimes with severe penalties including death. -wikipedia
Whether people want to forget or deny it, homosexuality, the big H word, has been around before the dawn of electricity and horse-drawn carriages. Especially in Ancient Rome and Ancient Greece, homoeroticism was very prevalent. In the Bible, it is listed as an abomination in Leviticus, but well, what did they know? Religion is a system where priests are frequently being accused of child molestation and sexual assault, and religion is affiliated with a lot of peril and human suffering in human history from robbing Aboriginal people of their identities and forcing a new identity on them (Catholicism); to brain-washing children to carry guns and teaching men to strap bombs to themselves (Islamic)...it really makes us wonder why we even paid attention to religion. It sounds like something we should be running from! It is so contradicting, unpeaceful and scary.
It is obvious, if you already didn't know that the only reason religion hates homosexuality is because they only care about men spreading their seeds and reproducing! Back in the olden days, when there weren't millions of Jews and Christians, they had to pop out babies like crazy. If they allowed men and women to sleep with each oher, they wouldn't have sustained themselves throughout the history of mankind. Well guess what, St Thomas of Aquinas? We can adopt babies and still reproduce as homosexual couples--so there! We can have lesbian and gay families (and there are many), so this age-old notion is really just a tired, old farty excuse. This is a ridiculous reason to persecuate thousands of gay men and lesbians, because of fear that the humankind, especially the kind who belonged to their own religion, would just dwindle off and become extinct like our friend, T. Rex.
Well, there have always been homosexuals in history and we have to accredit them with the inventions and ideas that made our lives notably easier.
Sophocles, Alexander the Great, Emperor Hadrian, Sapphos, Abu Nuwas, Muhammed al-Nawaji bin Hasan, Johan Joachim Winckelmann and Stefan George were some famed homos from Anicent times.
A few other, if I shall throw out names, are Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde, Gertrude Stein, Cole Porter, Radcliffe Hall, Socrates, Leonardo Da Vinci, Colette Valentino, George Sand and Tchaikovksy. If some people out there think homosexuals are degenerates well HELLO! do the names Michaelangelo, Tennyson, Florence Nightingale, Carpenter and Gide sound like 'generates to you? Yeah, no.
If you are Spanish, don't worry you have some ancient homos up your alley. Sixteenth Century Spanish chronicles cite Juan II, Alvaro de Luna and Gonzalo Fernandez de Cordoba as famous homosexuals. Yes, that's right. There is a list of homosexual pairs amongst the gods in Boccaccio’s Genealogia Deorum (1375), which influenced later writers. Several twelfth-century debates between Ganymede and Helen or Hebe cite the loves of Jupiter and Ganymede, Apollo and Hyacinthus, Silvanus and Cyparissus (Boswell 1980). When Benvenuto Cellini was called a ‘dirty sodomite’ by one Bandinelli, he humorously replied: ‘I wish to God I did know how to indulge in such a noble practice; after all, we read that Jove enjoyed it with Ganymede in paradise.’
Queer history has always been there, it's just up to you to continue the journey.