“Gay activism has been naive in its belligerent confidence that “homophobia” will eventually disappear with proper “education” of the benighted. Reeducation of fractious young boys on the scale required would mean fascist obliteration of all individual freedoms. Furthermore, no truly masculine father would ever welcome an feminine or artistic son at the start, since the son’s lack of virility not only threatens but liquidates that father’s identity, dissolving husband into wife. Later there may be public rituals of acceptance, but the damage will already have been done. Gay men are aliens, cursed and gifted, the shamans of our time.”

— Camille Paglia

Source: Vamps and Tramps (1994), "No Law in the Arena: A Pagan Theory of Sexuality", p. 86

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American writer 1947

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Sophocles Ajax

Ὦ παῖ, γένοιο πατρὸς εὐτυχέστερος,
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Ajax, lines 550-551; English translation by Richard Jebb
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Croesus (-596–-546 BC) King of Lydia

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Herodotus book Histories

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Book 1, Ch. 87.
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