LGBT+ History Month Is a Joke

The new Netflix series about the distinctly homoerotic Alexander the Great reminds us just how po-faced, biased and anti-Western is the narrow political agenda of LGBT+ History Month.

“The bed out of which all the social sciences spring is history; there they find, in greater or lesser degree, subject-matter and material, verification or contradiction.”

- A.L. Rowse in ‘The Use of History’.

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It's February so it must be LGBT+ History Month; yet another opportunity for the LGBTQ+ lobby to siphon off public funds and clamber on its rather unconvincing moral high horse.

Yep, a whole month in which we will be fed a palliated diet of misinterpretation, overinterpretation and downright lies. What gets my goat most is that in schools up and down the country all the richness and spectacle, mind-boggling surprises and awe-inspiring achievements of thousands of years of human history will be filleted and filtered in order to serve up a few sorry and pathetic tales of second-rate cross-dressers to a generation of young people who deserve so much more.

This feels personal because when I was a kid it was history above all that took me out of the limited world I lived in and opened up my mind to places and times I could never have imagined otherwise, peopled with characters who lived life boldly and did things that seemed impossible. Now kids are being presented an impoverished, one-dimensional version of the Past designed not to challenge their assumptions or even make them think, but to reflect back an attentuated picture of human behaviour as approved by the jittery and deeply unintelligent LGBTQ+ lobby.

You only have to watch the new Netflix series ‘Alexander’ to see what they’re missing. The trailer for the series is a high-energy blast of war, conquest and all the macho things the mythical transgender utopias of the past allegedly disavowed. And which lots of kids adore.

WARNING. If you are triggered by representations of 4th Century BC violence, please grab your comfort dog now.

So what has Alexander the Great got to do with things LGBT+? For one thing, he almost certainly had male lovers. The first show takes just ten minutes to explode into a down and dirty fight cum smooch between him and his best…err…friend Hephaiston.

It’s quite the thing.

If you want to watch the clip then here’s a snippet (…you perverts).

The series is careful to say we cannot know for sure whether Hephaiston and Alexander were lovers. Of course we can’t. But that’s largely because in Ancient Greece this didn’t need spelled out. Men had male lovers and that was no biggie. Male love for other men was pretty uncontroversial, even if it did not take the form of modern homosexuality.

Of course Alexander’s alleged homosexual behaviour isn’t the most interesting thing about him. Far from it. On the other hand like the story of Frederick the Great, who also had male lovers, that of Alexander reminds us there is no intrinsic connection between male homosexual behaviour and a young man being a nancy boy. Not that there is anything wrong with being a nancy boy, I hasten to add. Some of my best friends…

Nonetheless, for some rumbustious teenagers who suspect they might be gay that is worth knowing, in my humble opinion. Who you fancy should not feel like a trap or your destiny.

The main reason though that it’s a shame a great historical figure like Alexander falls foul of the narrow LGBT+ History Month filter is his story is bloody amazing. It’s so mind-boggling fiction could never have invented it. After becoming King at the age of twenty in just six years he conquered the greatest empire the world had till then known, Persia. He’s also genuinely interesting as a person, and in such unpredictable ways, which is why for thousands of years he has fascinated intelligent people. Until that is…today’s Age of Dumb.

Taught by Aristotle, Alexander took the philosopher’s dog-eared copy of Homer’s Iliad on his campaigns. Then, unlike Aristotle who disparaged “barbarians”, Alexander proved the better man and -like Homer himself- showed a profound respect for other cultures and civilisations, winning the trust of both the conquered Egyptians and Persians. You might think that would win him a few brownie points from the Diversity and Inclusion brigade. No such luck.

If only the greatest warrior in history had known he would become persona non grata 2300 years later because he forgot to dress up occasionally in women’s clothing. Alexander also had the misfortune to be …whisper it gently…an icon of Western civilisation. And that’s a red line for the LGBTQ+ lobby who loathe with a passion the Western culture that gave birth to …err…the LGBTQ+ lobby. Go figure, as Aristotle might have said.

The woke Pharisees who run History Month much prefer a strictly anti-Western and enthusiastically pro-trans diet. And so for the rest of February we’ll hear instead about previously unknown and eccentric 19th Century women who must have been transmen because they didn’t enjoy needlework and even more about people of colour in far-flung places who supposedly lived in peace and transgender harmony until wicked Western colonialists imposed the rigid sex binary along with slavery, capitalism and generally laying waste to the ecosystem.

The fact that those peoples of colour also enslaved the tribes they conquered just like the Ancient Greeks did is considered neither here nor there. Nor does it matter apparently that native, allegedly transgender-loving tribes continually raided their neighbours to steal and rape their women. As for the environment, the ancestors of today’s sainted Native American Indians lived in such harmony with Nature they hunted to death all of North America’s megafauna from mammoths and giant sloths to camels. Camels in America? I know!

Feast your eyes on the animals that are no longer with us courtesy of the allegedly trans loving, two spirit adoring and ecosystem respecting Indians.

Nobody is perfect, after all.