Homoafetividade: discurso e práticas contemporâneas, apropriações helênicas.

Abstract

The relations about homophilia in Classical Greece were analyzed over time, through concepts and modern customs, resulting in anachronistic readings, by the LGBT segment (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender), fundamentalists Catholics, Evangelicals and Protestants, while homosexual practices to legitimate arguments against or in favor of relations between individuals of the same sex. According to the readings made by advocates of sexual diversity, homosexuality existed and was practiced by the ancient Greeks without reproach, to thereby legitimize homosexual relationships in contemporary and disallow the discourses of fundamentalists Christians religious who condemn homosexuality, arguing that such practices are immoral, considered by this tradition in the Bible as a sin against nature. In contrast, Catholics, Protestants and radicals Evangelicals argue that Greece was immoral that historical period with reference to the notion of sexuality inherited from the Judeo-Christian thought, or even claim to have in the classical period the relations between equals reproved, and even fought therefore, according to these readings the ancient Greeks saw homophilia relations as unnatural, and thus seek to historically justify the rejection of relations between individuals of the same sex.