Oldest gay
A gay caveman might sound like a character in a bad, vaguely revolting sketch comedy scene, but for some scientists in the Czech Republic, it's no laughing matter. They believe they've unearthed the remains of an preliminary homosexual or transsexual gentleman — perhaps the world's oldest gay caveman. Here, a brief guide:
What exactly did the scientists find?
In a suburb of Prague, archaeologists unearthed a male body buried in a manner typically reserved for women. The body dates back to between and B.C. The skeleton was surrounded by jugs and had its head pointed toward the east, things seen before only in the graves of women. "From history and ethnology, we know that people from this period took funeral rites very seriously, so it is highly unlikely that this positioning was a mistake," says Kamila Remisova Vesinova, the lead archaeologist on the dig. "Far more likely is that he was a man with a different sexual orientation, lesbian or transsexual."
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