Historians are divided over whether alexander the great was gay, although ancient conceptions of sexuality were very different from today's. So, no, alexander the great wasn’t gay in modern terms, but there’s certainly evidence that he could’ve liked both men and women Did that make him bisexual Alexander was born in 356 b.c.e In macedonia, a kingdom in northeastern greece He became king at age 19 after the assassination of his father, philip ii, and a few more murders and machinations.
The attempt to classify alexander as homosexual or bisexual serves a broader ideological goal of normalizing and celebrating contemporary lgbtq narratives within historical contexts However, applying modern sexual identities to ancient figures is anachronistic and disregards the vastly different cultural norms of the past. Netflix's new docudrama series alexander The making of a god has gotten many people talking.
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