would it kill historians to say “yeah these ancient romans wouldn’t have thought of themselves as ‘gay’ in modern terms” (sure, whatever) without calling the existence of gay people “our current cultural baggage”
Also, these ancient romans would not have thought of themselves as ‘straight’ because the concept ‘straight’ didn’t exist yet.
They did not call the places where their empire met other empires ‘borders’ because the concept ‘borders’ didn’t exist yet.
They would not have found us ‘normal’ or ‘abnormal’ because because those words and concept didn’t exist yet.
See also the roman concept of a chair, of a family, of very damn near EVERYTHING. And that’s before you start considering all the concepts they did have that we don’t. You can either put a disclaimer of EVERYTHING, every damn time, or you have to wonder why only sexual and gender diversity are contextualized out of existence.
QueerAnarchism 