I am pretty sure they would have said it openly, as someone else posted, some of the graffiti literally is bragging about fucking men in the ass and how the guy doesnt need women anymore.

Sometimes bros are just bros and need to tell us about it.

Nobody knows, a lot of people say they were lovers or some shit but that reads to me like second opinion bias. Because history studies for decades ignored the existence of gay people there’s now this reaction of people who have decided that every single man in history that had a close relationship with another man is automatically gay.

It reads as people running facefirst into toxic masculinity while trying to avoid it. I’m a straight guy and I’m close with my male friends. I can confidently state the closest non familial relationship I have is with my two best friends one of whom is a man. I aint never gonna bang him though, and I think people who assume any guy who shows affection for other men is gay re-enforces that “STRAIGHT MEN WILL NEVER SHOW EMOTION!” bullshit that fucks people’s heads up all the time

in the ancient world, provided you weren’t in a position expected to have kids and you were neglecting it, you could be openly gay. Homophobia is a modern things. This two were definitely just very very good friends.