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5 gay rulers from ancient history
After entity marginalised and brushed over for so long, the true stories of Homosexual people throughout history are now increasingly being brought to light. But what many people still may not realise is that numerous great figures from very long ago were known to have been gay or bisexual.
1. Julius Caesar
The most iconic of all the Ancient Romans, Julius Caesar is famed for many things: his incredible military successes, his rise as a dictator, and his bloody assassination at the hands of his retain senators. What’s less well-remembered is that, during his younger years, Caesar was widely thought to contain been involved in a passionate romance with another man. And not just any man: his squeeze was said to possess been King Nicomedes IV of Bithynia, an ancient kingdom located in modern-day Turkey.
The love affair was such an unlocked secret that a military song celebrating Caesar’s victories featured the line, ‘Caesar laid the Gauls shallow, Nicomedes laid Caesar low’ – a reference to Caesar taking what they considered the feminine role in the relationship.
Caesar’s political rivals ran with the theme, mocking him as ‘t It’s still not something you’d expect to observe on a David Attenborough documentary, but Belgian holidaymaker Nicole Cambré has photographed two male lions in Botswana in what sure does look like an unabashed display of joint affection. The lions had apparently been engaging in ‘intimate’ behaviour for over a week when Nicole spotted them, according to the park guide, and had pushed out the resident males of the event earlier in the year. By the time these photo’s were taken, most of the females in the pride had moved on too – but the loved-up lions come into view to be totally oblivious. 'It is the first second I’ve seen such behaviour in lions,' Nicole told The Daily Mail, 'but when reading about it upon my return, it’s not that uncommon.' ‘Not that uncommon’ is an understatement – in fact, multiple studies over the past few decades indicate that there have been recorded instances of homosexual behaviour in animals in as many as 500 species. Some animals, like inky swans, penguins and sheep are known to possess exhibited exclusively ‘gay’ behaviours in substantial numbers, refusing to mate with the opposite sex at all. 2022 International Film Festival of India Goa 2022 Macao International Queer Film Festival 2022 Ulaanbaatar International Film Festival - Award: Audience Award 'Falcon' 2022 Cambridge Clip Festival 2022 Thessaloniki International Film Festival - Award: Won Audience Award Open Horizons Section Greece 2022 Seoul International PRIDE Film Festival 2022 QUEERSICHT Film Festival 2022 Matera FIlm Festival - Award: Won Top Young Actor Blær Hinriksson 2022 Festiwal Kamera Akcja 2022 Belfast Film Festival 2022 Riga International Film Festival 2022 Cinema Arta 2022 Panorama of European Cinema Egypt 2022 Stockholm International Film Festival - Award: Won Best Screenplay 2022 Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2022 Chennai International Film Festival 2022 Sottodiciotto Movie festival - Award: Future Generation' prize 2022 La Roche sur Yon FF - Award: Won Grand Prix de Jury International Cine 2022 Valladolid International Film Festival - Award: Won Youth Jury Award 2022 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2022 Istanbul Film Festival 2022 OFF Camera Movie Festival - Awar - Iceland’s Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson gets back to skilfully searching the cruel transition to adulthood in his second film which follows four adolescents grappling with a violent reality Viktor Benóný Benediktsson, Birgir Dagur Bjarkason and Snorri Rafn Frímannsson in Beautiful Beings Icelandic director Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson made his debut in 2016 within the Venice Film Festival’s Giornate degli Autori, courtesy of his first movie film Heartstone [+see also: .
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