History of Homosexuality
A number of historical figures led lives that could be considered gay in modern society.
These including Socrates, Alexander the Great, Lord Byron, Julius Caesar, Michelangelo, and Donatello. One of the problems with finding them gay is just that no one in antiquity or the Middle Ages experienced homosexuality as an exclusive or permanent way of defining sexuality.
Although denied by European explorers, homosexual expression in historical Africa was present and took the form of male Azande warriors who routinely married male youths and who functioned as temporary wives. Among Native Americans, same-sex sexuality centered around the figure of the two-spirit individual. The child who was born this way was given the choice as to whether or not to follow the path, learning the customs of the role the child had chosen. These two-spirit individuals often became Shamans. Both homosexual and transgender people were common among the Aztecs, Mayans, Quechas and other tribes in South America. The god Xochiquetzal was considered male and female at the same time.