First openly gay man in world history with a written down quote attributed directly to him that is talking about how gay he is… maybe?
The world history thing was a comment someone else made after he died and is a bit of big claim, but I guess he was the first notable, documented person in the modern era to say “Yeah, I like guys, is there really anything wrong with that?”
i’m sure that person did great stuff and i’m not saying it didnt take them a lot of courage and strength to come out at the time they did but “first openly gay man in world history”? really? in all of documented human history, from all over the world, there has never been an openly gay person before 1870? c’mon
The christians unfortunately did a good job purging historical records of societies and cultures where homosexuality was openly accepted.
So many cultures eradicated because it didn’t fit with the views of bigots.