Great moments in LGBT history

[Syne]

If you're going to omit the facts that support a point, it's useless to engage in your further intellectual dishonesty. "Nope" to a cherry-picked paragraph is not an argument.

[Magical Realist]

I only made one point. I didn't even read your cherry-picked Gemini results. You responded to my one point and I re-defended it. That's how this works.

[Syne]

Keep lying. Anyone can go look for themselves.

[Magical Realist]

No one cares about your shit but you. The world doesn't revolve around you being right about petty details.

[Syne]

No one cares about your shit but you. The world doesn't revolve around you being right about petty details.

Wha? You actually got around to addressing the ONLY point I was making this whole time?
Took you long enough. Don't like it? Maybe have some idea of what the worlds in your own thread title actually mean. 9_9

[Magical Realist]

"For 40 years, the most feared military unit in Greece was 300 men who loved each other. Then the man who destroyed them stood over their bodies and wept.

The Sacred Band of Thebes was founded around 378 BCE on a straightforward premise. Soldiers fighting beside their lovers are more courageous than soldiers fighting for abstract loyalty. So the Theban general Epaminondas built his elite force out of 150 male couples and put them at the front of every major engagement. They defeated Sparta at the Battle of Leuctra in 371 BCE, ending Spartan military dominance of Greece. They won battle after battle for four decades. No unit in Greece could break them.

At Chaeronea in 338 BCE, surrounded and unwilling to surrender, the Sacred Band fought to the last man. They were cut down by the Macedonians. The entire Sacred Band was killed where they stood. Archaeologists later discovered 254 skeletons under the battlefield, believed to be their remains. A stone lion still marks the site today.

When Philip surveyed the dead and found the 300 bodies of the Sacred Band lying where they fell, each killed facing the enemy, he reportedly wept and said: "Perish any man who suspects that these men either did or suffered anything that was base."

Philip said that. His son Alexander, who had led the cavalry charge that destroyed them, stood on the same field. Two of the most celebrated military commanders in history looked at 300 dead gay men and called them heroes.

The Sacred Band never reformed. Their reign as the most formidable fighting force in Europe ended at Chaeronea. The lion monument that the Thebans erected over their grave still stands. Underneath it, the skeletons of 150 pairs of lovers remain buried together, which is exactly how they died.

Centuries later, armies across the Western world would spend enormous energy debating whether gay men were fit to serve. The Sacred Band settled that question in 378 BCE. It took the greatest military force in the ancient world to prove them wrong, and even then, Philip couldn't do it without crying."