According to although most "belligerent nations" were strongly influenced by their women, the Celts were unusual because their men openly preferred male lovers II H. D. Rankin in Celts and the Classical World notes that "Athenaeus echoes this comment and so does Amman. It seems to be the general opinion of antiquity. In book XIII of his Deipnosophists, the Roman Greek rhetorician and grammarian Athenaeu, repeating assertions made by Diodorus
Siculus in the 1st century BC wrote that Celtic women were beautiful but that the men preferred to sleep together. Diodorus went further, stating that "the young men will offer themselves to strangers and are insulted if the offer is refused". Rankin argues that the ultimate source of these assertions is likely to be Poseidoniusand speculates that these authors may be recording male "bonding rituals
Throughout Hindu and Vedictexts there are many descriptions of saints, demigods, and even the Supreme Lord transcending gender norms and manifesting multiple combinations of sex and gender.There are several instances in ancient Indian epic poetrof same sex depictions and unions by gods and goddesses. There are several stories of depicting love between same sexes especially among kings and queens. Kamasutr, the ancient India treatise on love talks about feelings for same sexes. Transsexualsare also venerated e.g. Lord Vishnuas Mohiniand Lord Shivaas Ardhanarishwara which means half woman).
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