Because of people like you, who try to tear us down just because we experience love differently than you.
So I am proud to still be here, still be incredibly happy with who I am, despite the constant hate from homophobes.

Sorry to continue the tangent. Also a bit of a history buff and I have studied a bit of history at university.

While it's true that homosexuality was more accepted in ancient Greece than it would be during later times, the evidence of how accepted it is are sparse, and the writing we do have about it was often written hundreds of years after the fact. That's a pretty big problem with history writing during the ancient times in general, we're basically relying on sources that themselves were the history books of their time, rather than primary sources. We can say with some certainty that the Greeks were more open and accepting than say the 13th century Christians were, but we can't really say a whole lot more than that. Also chances are pretty big that the perception of homosexuality would have varied a varied a fare bit depending on exactly where and when, we are after all talking about a pretty large timespan (depending on the exact definition of "ancient Greece" it might well have been a timespan larger than that between the time of Ancient Greece and now).

This gets further clouded by the fact a lot of what we "know" about the sexual habits of ancient Greece were in fact written with the intent of making Greek society seem more decadent and hedonistic, and were written in the last couple of hundred years. Things like this does make it very hard to know what's fact and what's just made its way into history books as "facts". This is generally a pretty common issue with a lot of history writing, it's hard to untangle facts from fiction when certain things have been repeated over and over again over a long period of time. Heck, we're pretty bad at this even for more recent things.
A more recent example (not related to people's sexuality, just meant to illustrate a point) would be the depiction of the Soviet union during WW2. Most western sources got their information about the Soviet Union from the Germans, who in tern were not always the most reliable writers, and many of them did have reasons to depict the Soviet Union one way or another (often to paint themselves in a better light), and thus a lot of misconceptions and exaggerations and falsehoods did end up making their way into our history books, which are now just treated as "truths" even when they're not (add in the political interests in places like the US to portray the Soviet Union in a really negative light and you've got a recipe for bad history writing). Pretty certain the same thing happened on the Soviet side as well, but I know less about their history writing.

Spartans and generally ancient Greeks seem pretty gay by today's standards but it also stems from them being very misogynistic and biased towards men, so that's kind of a double edged sword. Also a lot of the time it wasn't what we would call homosexuality today (as in sex between two consenting men) but more akin to rape of young men by older authority figures, although it was often idealized in literature. The same applies to Japan and the practice of "Wakashudô" (which indeed started to get frowned upon not so long ago, in the 19th century Meiji era where Japan opened up its borders to the western world).

As for Persia / Turkey there's also some similar unsavory history of homosexuality (which still endures today. Lesbians had it better, in some parts of these areas it was not uncommon for widows or even wives to be in lesbian relationships and it was generally accepted by men (can't remember theTurkish term for it though :/).

Medieval Europe was much more accepting of homosexuality than in the later Renaissance - Modern era, where the religious authorities cracked down on it. There were a lot of scandals about poor nobles prostituting their younger sons to wealthier men in Renaissance Italy and among other things it prompted the Church to actively hunt homosexuals, where they more or less turned a blind eye before. There are accounts of homosexual medieval monks for example, and the general consensus was more along the lines of "lol they're having buttsex" than "filthy creatures, burn them".

Interesting. It's almost as if a couple of religions imposed their dim-witted view of people on the world somehow, right?
And hey since you bring up history, that gives me an excuse to mention this magnificent site (LGBTQHistory.org), and yet another inclusive perception in the world's history.

The First Nations (aka Native Americans) not only had no problem with the concept of Queerness, they even had a word for it. Traditionally, many Indigenous cultures recognized third and fourth alternative gender statuses that encompassed male, feminine, and unique traits. Two-Spirit people historically fulfilled specialized roles in both work and spiritual practices. The concept embraces various Queer identities of gender, and orientation.
Here is the LGBTQ History page for the Two Spirit and Non-Traditional Families and this lovely picture from 1866 says it all, really.

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Thank you.
I really wish I hadn't already answered that question at least a couple of times each year.
But a couple of years ago, a guy who came into this thread with that question said I actually helped him understand the concept of Pride Month (he wasn't a bigot to start with really, just someone who was confused by some of the rhetoric we see out there) so I'll always give it a try.

Wie Fluffster gesagt hat. Es geht nicht darum Stolz auf die sexuelle Orientierung zu sein, sondern sich nicht für seine sexuelle Orientierung schämen zu müssen. Nicht Angst haben zu müssen angegriffen zu werden, weil man als nicht-hetero Paar erkennbar ist.

No, your outfit tells everyone that you “fight against the annoying gay” and compares us to “fucking racists”. That’s not asking questions, dear — you’re clearly wearing a statement piece. And if that’s the look you chose to leave the house in, then so be it. That’s your choice and by all means you can wear it, but it also means everyone can see it. Trying to walk it back while it’s still on you though isn’t really an option. You’re either wearing it or you’re not, and the only person who chooses to dress yourself up that way is you.

First sentence on the linked wiki page. Just inform yourself before making every blunder there is. Otherwise you just appear ignorant or trolling.

Snitches deserve stitches

listen, you can have nationalistic pride all you want, but do you really have to be so flamboyant about it? like, we get it, you enjoy bigotry, but its so blatant. you should really only act like that in your own bedroom. none of us want to see that.

Yup.

The repeated messaging does help keep the thread bumped though, so that's a plus. Despite their best efforts, they're actually really helping to promote LGBTQ+ visibility by putting this thread back at the top every single time they comment.

oh I knew you would was just waiting for when it would happen

Rather than tolerate as much as possible, I believe we need to educate as much as possible, to eliminate as much intolerance as possible. ;)