same-sex couple
A same-sex couple is a pair of people of the same gender who pursue a romantic or sexual relationship together.
The term "same-sex relationship" may be used when the sexual orientation of participants in a same-sex relationship is not known. As bisexual or pansexual people may participate in same-sex relationships, some activists claim that referring to a same-sex relationship as a "gay relationship" or a "lesbian relationship" is a form of bisexual erasure.
The term "same-sex marriage" is used similarly.
Famous same-sex couples
Some of these couples are known to have been lovers; others had a close relationship of some kind, but their sexuality is merely speculative, without definite evidence of a romantic involvement.
- Khnumhotep & Niankhkhnum, ca. 2400 BC
- Enkidu & Gilgamesh, legendary, based on a king of about 1900 BC
- Naomi (Bible) & Ruth in the Book of Ruth, written about 900 BC
- David & Jonathan, legendary, recorded about 900 BC
- Achilles & Patroclus, legendary, recorded about 750 BC
- Anactoria & Sappho, legendary, based on a poet of the 7th century BC
- Chariton & Melanippus, rebels against the tyrant Phalaris in the 6th century BC
- Polycrates & Smerdis, 6th century BC
- Anacreon & Bathyllus, 6th century BC
- Harmodius and Aristogeiton, 6th century BC
- Alcibiades & Socrates, 5th century BC
- Duke Ling & Mizi Xia, legendary, based on an aristocrat of the 5th century BC by Han Fei
- Ampelos & Dionysus, mythological, from the writing of Nonnus in the 5th century BC
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