The Gay Characters in Pantheon

When I started writing Pantheon, I knew I wanted to give equal time to a variety of sexual expressions. The ancient world operated under different sexual constructions than we do today, and most of the gods of myth had same-sex encounters:

In contemporary Western society, we base our division of sexual categories on the axis of same versus other. Our primary division rests on the genders of the people involved… The ancient world, both Greek and Roman, did not base its classification on gender,...