Apollo gay
Omar Apollo‘s new album God Said Nohas already won over the hearts of millions. The GLAAD Media Award nominated artist’s second studio album is as melodic and moving as the first. To talk about God Said No, as good as how much his life has changed since his song “Evergreen” blew up on TikTok, Apollo joined NYLON Magazine for a wide ranging conversation.
Apollo talked with NYLON’s Mickey Rapkin about everything from crushes and astrology, to more serious topics appreciate what it was like for him to grow up as a homosexual son of immigrants in rural Indiana. “There was no Mexicans around… I was called unattractive all the time,” he explained. “I had a lot of anger and resentment towards my family and the people that I loved.”
He explains how when he turned 19, he was living in a friend’s attic while working at a Guitar Center. This is when he started uploading his music to Spotify. He describes his success at this point of his life as “super confusing.” He would be invited “into a beautiful home and having a wonderful conversation and then go assist to living in the attic with black mold.” This helped him perceive that, “
Last week we discussed the nine types of creation myth. This week, lets take a stare at some be upright out gay gods in history.
Keep in consciousness that what we know about these deities came to us through the lense of tracking civilisations, who weren’t always big fans of homosexuality. The result is sometimes we have to read between the lines.
However, next second someone tries to tell you heterosexuality is the way its always been, you can explain them about these ancient deities
Antinous
You may not have heard of Antinous. He was a Greek youth who was the lover of Emperor Hadrian around the 1st century AD. Antinous drowned while on a boat trip on the Nile, and Hadrian deified him post-humously.
Hadrian had his lover place among the gods as a create of Osiris due to the conduct of his death. The city of Antinopolis was founded in his honour at the sight of his death. It continued to be occupied until the 10th century.
Antinous’ worship was popular for centuries. Sadly, many of his temples were destroyed when the Roman Empire Christianized. His worship declined from then on. Today it is kept alive by LGBT pagans and polytheists.
Apollo
Apollo is the most famous of the g
As stated by someone earlier, bisexuality as we know it probably did not exist. There were few stigma's on the subject, and apparently many of the ancient people had no reason to disaprove of such a relationship. In evidence, there are very rare instances of the ancients disapproving of any sexual act to a indicate where it would socially ruin a person.
The ancient Egyptian pharaohs would usually marry their sister, or a close relative. At the same time it was considered wrong for a normal, common, person to do. Why? I don't know, but many historians say the reason lies in the godlike view of the pharaohs. The pharaohs were superhuman beings, and therefore did not have the alike limitations as the frequent man.
Being so, one would imagine the ancient mediterranean people regarded gods as completely above sexual reprimand. I.e. they could act anything they wanted, without
“In order to free homosexuality from being viewed through the lens of pathology and perversity, we may need to return it to the gods.” Christine Downing, Myths and Mysteries of Matching Sex Love.
Greek historian Plutarch (lived 46-c119 CE), who was himself a priest of Apollo, wrote in his work Parallel Lives:
‘And there is some reason in supposing that Deity, who is not a lover of horses or birds, but a partner of men, should be willing to consort with men of superlative goodness, and should not dislike or disdain the firm of a wise and sacred man. But that an undying god should take carnal pleasure in a mortal body and its beauty, this, surely, is hard to believe.
‘And yet the Aegyptians make a distinction here which is thought plausible, namely, that while a woman can be approached by a holy spirit and made pregnant, there is no such thing as carnal intercourse and communion between a man and a divinity. But they lose sight of a fact that intercourse is a reciprocal matter, and that both parties to it come in into a like communion. However, that a god should own affection for a man, and a so-called love which is based upon affection, and takes the form