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116. The Queer Thing About Sin: Why the West Came to Hate Queer Love
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Was there a time when same-sex love was not condemned, but celebrated? Historian and writer Harry Tanner takes us back to the ancient Mediterranean to uncover a world that may surprise you. In early Greece, male lovers could fight side by side in battle, female poets sang openly of desire for women, and devotion between people of the same sex was woven into cultural and civic life. It was not considered a sin. So, what changed? Tracing the gradual emergence of homophobia across the classical world and into Western religious and political thought, Tanner reveals how fear, inequality and social crisis have repeatedly shaped attitudes to queer love. This is history with urgency: a powerful exploration of how prejudice took root, and how understanding its origins might help us challenge it today.
