🪷 8 Aug 117 AD LGBT turning point: #Trajan's death paves way for #Hadrian to be emperor: Were #Antinous & Hadrian really "gay"? Scholars quibbled until 2008 when @britishmuseum curator #ThorstenOpper declared: "Hadrian was gay and we can say that now." https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-accession-of-hadrian-as-emperor-of.html 🪷