The ancient celebration of the issue gives the current generation a hope that the current community will accept and consume the LGBTQ culture in accordance with Kerry Rourke’s theory. The statute is associated with the unparalleled beauty which is balanced with strength and elegance and showed a dynamic interplay between the attributes of masculinity and femininity (anistor 1) The statue exhibits the exact beauty that men needed in their partners.ĭuring the Roman times, homosexuality was celebrated as an art, and it was not viewed as a negative issue.
The openness of the emperor’s affair with the boy, depicts an accurate picture showing how homosexuality was treated as normal by even the leaders of that time. Some scholars argued that the boy fell in the Nile while others propose that, he was killed by the enemies of the emperor.
