We can take credit for the hand ‘High Five’ and the first nursing system set up in the US.
The epidemic of Samurai killing each other so as to win the affections of the young men playing women in Kabuki plays in ancient Japan, prompted the Japanese government to ban Kabuki.
Imperial China called homosexuality “the love of the cut sleeve” in honor of an Emperor who rather than wake up his male lover who fell asleep on his robe sleeve, cut it off.
The Opera “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” the song “My Funny Valentine,” and Tchaikovsky’s Sixth Symphony, were written by homosexual men, for homosexual men.
Giovanni Casanova, Janis Joplin and Winston Churchill, though straight in orientation, said they had same-sex sex.
Homosexuality was commonplace among the Aztecs, coal minors in South Africa, Italian Gondoliers and Genevan printers; it was esteemed by Celt warriors. It played a major part with the people jazz age Harlem to English girl boarding schools to the early civil rights movement.
We can claim several Popes, at least one Queen and we have Pulitzer Prize winners coming out of our asses.
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