https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khnumhotep_and_Niankhkhnum
Many parts of the world didn't have a problem with homosexuals. So theyre right to an extent. People seem to think the world was 100% against homosexuals in the past. It was only really 'bad' after the 18th century for many countries, which is when Christianity began to dominate most of the world.
"The Ancient Greek tradition of an older man courting a younger man in a sometimes homoerotic and symbiotic social relationship. The older man would be expected to have wisdom and experience which he would pass onto the younger boy, while the younger boy would act as a muse to the older man. These relationships held a very important place in society, as families were bonded not only by marrying off daughters and exchanging dowries but developing these relationships between their sons and older men of powerful families creating a sense of political unison. The relationships were viewed as a pupil-student bond and the erotic element of the relationship was viewed as a building block to education."
In greece, Homosexual relations didn't replace heterosexual, it was acceptable but not the norm
"John Boswell argued that up until the twelfth century, same-sex desire and activity were not a major concern to the church or to lay society (writing in the late 1970s he used the terms “homosexuality” and “gay people”).
1 When Peter Damian wrote his
Book of Gomorrah sometime around the middle of the eleventh century, the first major blast against same-sex relations among the clergy, the Pope declined to act on it.
2 Boswell argued that this changed in the thirteenth century, when legal systems began to adopt strict penalties (and sometimes enforce them) and churchmen, following in particular the lead of Thomas Aquinas, used the discourse of “nature” to cast any nonreproductive sex as deeply deviant"
Even Christians in Europe only really focused on homosexuality after the 12th century.
England reiterated its anti-sodomy laws in the 16th century, but these early cases featured homosexuality as a tangential charge, and it wasn't until the 19th century that someone was executed for homosexuality.
- 1548 – The provisions of the Buggery Act 1533 were given new force, with minor amendments. The penalty for buggery remained death, but goods and lands were not forfeit, and the rights of wives and heirs were safeguarded.[23]"
- 1553 – Mary Tudor ascends the English throne and repeals the Buggery Act 1533 during her brief reign of 1553–8.[23]
A Yorkshire farmer's journal from 1810 reveals surprisingly modern views on being gay.
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"The noble class of the Mughals engaged in both homosexuality and pederasty, the latter considered as "pure love" and prevalent among those from
Central Asia. In India, however, this wasn't as rife. The governor of
Burhanpur was murdered by a boy servant with whom he tried to be intimate with.
Ali Quli Khan was recorded to have homosexual relations with males.
[4]"
"Anthropologists
Stephen Murray and
Will Roscoe reported that women in
Lesotho engaged in socially sanctioned "long term, erotic relationships," named
motsoalle.[7][
page needed]
E. E. Evans-Pritchard also recorded that male
Azande warriors (in the northern
Congo) routinely took on boy-wives between the ages of twelve and twenty, who helped with household tasks and participated in
intercrural sex with their older husbands. The practice had died out by the early 20th century, after Europeans had gained control of African countries, but was recounted to Evans-Pritchard by the elders with whom he spoke.
[8]"