Same-sex love was not honored in ancient Greece.
Classics scholar Rob Johansen explodes popular thinking on ancient Greece being a welcoming society for those practicing same-sex love and sex. In fact, it was an intolerant society on such matters, moreso than Western countries today. (*)
The term homosexual is frequently misapplied. It should only be applied to persons and events in the late 19th century and after. Prior to that time, the homosexual movement did not exist. (†)