racism noble savage orientalism and araby no flaming intended i just want balance to come to this subject explain to the world how putting greek homosexuals on a pedestal is in any way shape or form npov you know greek scholars on the matter paint homosexuality in a different hue than outsiders who romanticize the subject e g oliver stone's alexander film they see homosexuality as existing all over the world and in all eras to portray ancient greece as some buggery paradise is prejudiced and ignorant just as if they were all claimed to be paragons of heterosexual machismo gay greeks are your wandering jew whenever i watched hercules the legendary journeys and xena warrior princess homosexuality did not come to mind perhaps the slash fiction community would rather hercules and xena get nasty with their traveling companions but that's beside the point you can't always have it to your fantasy or ideal simply by calling other people narrow so far you've succeeded in stereotyping greeks as rabid homosexuals out of all the characteristics of the hellenic people founders of europe you had to claim that their homosexuals were most importanteven iconic representations of the west nobody said they were all straight either which is something you have to admit homosexual revisionism is not fact