Ancient civilizations with gay marriage
The History of Same-sex attracted Marriage: From the Ancients to Gen Z! [Ad]
Gay marriage has only just become a lawful enterprise, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t always around. For the history of gay marriage, you came to the right place.
Despite the recent history of the Gay community being one of prejudice and discrimination, things weren’t always like this. Our current acceptance echoes civilisations of the past, who saw same-sex unions as normal and right.
Thanks to this abundant history of gay marriage, a solicitors in Chichester, Lewes, or anywhere else in Sussex or the UK will now be able to aid with your civil partnership or marriage. But how has this developed, and where did this all begin? Let’s take a look…
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LGBTQ+ unions at the inception of the ancient world
Luckily for us budding history lovers, the ancient nature has a myriad of evidence free, which provides us with a cute good idea of how life was lived back then. Because of this, we know that same-sex unions occurred across the globe, in ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt, and later in ancient Greece and Rome.
The main hint of this in ancient Mesopotamia is demonstrated i
A while ago I had a discussion with some friends about homosexuality and morality. Eventually I made the comment:
Well it doesn’t directly disturb you. If you didn’t know it was happening, what negative effect would it have on your life?
To this they responded something to the influence that homosexuality “degrades” the values of society and has been part of the downfall and crumble of empires and nations. It was just so obvious, they claimed, simply look at Sodom and Gomorrah or the Greek and Roman Empires!
I didn’t quite know what to say about all of this then. Frankly it was more shock than anything. But after going home I knew I could easily look into this empirical claim. They made a confident declaration about the causal connection between social phenomena.
I decided to look it up. Specifically, I decided to, first, do a case study on the Greek/Hellenistic and Roman Empires, which they themselves claimed were ‘ruined by homosexual lusts’. I also decided to throw in Japan, so as to look at a country without the same kind of Western history or Judeo-Christian mores, as well as general ‘Global Trends’ in the past 100-200 years whe
While interhuman relationships move back to the early years of civilization, marriage has only become commonplace in the recent annals of history. Evidence suggests that marriage as an institution may only be several thousand years old, just a small blip on humanity's 300,000-year-old timeline. And the general idea that one man and one woman would spend their whole lives together has only cropped up in the last few centuries.
Many of the modern significant other trends, like polyamory and throuples, are actually variations on historical marriage tropes. Also taking root in historical precedence are fads fond of the "trad wife" movement, which has been making waves on social media. But even newer than the notion of marriage? The idea that you'd marry someone because you actually cherish them.
How old is marriage as an institution?
The best accessible evidence suggests that it's about 4,350 years old. For thousands of years before that, most anthropologists believe, families consisted of loosely organized groups of as many as 30 people, with several male leaders, multiple women distributed between them, and children. As hunter-gatherers settled down into agrarian civilizations, culture had a desire f
In honour of LGBTQIA+ history month, Ancient History alumni Ollie Burns takes a closer look at the social, political, and cultural implications of homosexuality in ancient Rome.
Trigger Warning: sexual violence, homophobia, paedophilia, nudity.
The presentation and perception of homosexuality in the Roman world was vastly unlike than how it is today, and gives us an example of how homosexuality has been indelibly linked with communications of power and authority in antiquity. The Latin language has no word for either heterosexual or gay, and instead partners in a sexual relationship would be presented as either active, synonymous with masculinity, or passive and therefore, feminine, regardless of the gender of the individuals involved. Freeborn male Romans had the civil liberty to do as they pleased when it came to sexual activity, and as such, the framework of a Roman dude engaging in homosexual sex was in no way controversial or taboo to the Romans, as distant as it fell within certain parameters.
Rome was a deeply militarised state, with conquest and dominance deeply ingrained as desirable masculine traits. As a product of this, men were free to engage in h
Gay Marriage in Antiquity: How Far Have We Come?
Mention the phrase “gay marriage” to any American and you can almost always expect some type of response. Everyone, it seems, has an opinion on the topic.
Regardless of which side you’re arguing for though, it’s hard to deny that the homosexual rights movement that America is currently experiencing feels remarkably similar to many events of our past: Abolitionism, the Civil Rights Movement, Women's Suffrage -- seemingly a confirmation of the old adage that history repeats itself.
In truth, many factors of the battle for gay rights echo back all the way to ancient Greek and Roman societies in which “homosexuality" was, for the most part, standard as a social custom. (Then, homosexuality was excel defined as “same-sex desire,” since the Greeks and Romans had no principle of modern homosexuality (Hubbard, Introduction: 1)).Marriage between males was not uncommon in ancient Rome; there are many references to it, in fact, and none of them are favorable, such as Lucian’s strange science fiction story about “gay marriage” on the Moon, described as an “unusual custom” (Luci