Gay apollo
Omar Apollo‘s new album God Said Nohas already won over the hearts of millions. The GLAAD Media Award nominated artist’s second studio album is as melodic and moving as the first. To talk about God Said No, as successfully as how much his life has changed since his song “Evergreen” blew up on TikTok, Apollo joined NYLON Magazine for a wide ranging conversation.
Apollo talked with NYLON’s Mickey Rapkin about everything from crushes and astrology, to more serious topics fond of what it was like for him to grow up as a queer son of immigrants in rural Indiana. “There was no Mexicans around… I was called repulsive all the time,” he explained. “I had a lot of anger and resentment towards my family and the people that I loved.”
He explains how when he turned 19, he was living in a friend’s attic while working at a Guitar Center. This is when he started uploading his music to Spotify. He describes his success at this point of his life as “super confusing.” He would be invited “into a beautiful home and having a wonderful conversation and then go endorse to living in the attic with black mold.” This helped him perceive that, “
“In order to free homosexuality from being viewed through the lens of pathology and perversity, we may need to return it to the gods.” Christine Downing, Myths and Mysteries of Identical Sex Love.
Greek historian Plutarch (lived 46-c119 CE), who was himself a priest of Apollo, wrote in his work Parallel Lives:
‘And there is some reason in supposing that Deity, who is not a lover of horses or birds, but a boyfriend of men, should be willing to consort with men of superlative goodness, and should not dislike or disdain the firm of a wise and spiritual man. But that an undying god should take carnal pleasure in a mortal body and its beauty, this, surely, is hard to believe.
‘And yet the Aegyptians make a distinction here which is thought plausible, namely, that while a woman can be approached by a superhuman spirit and made pregnant, there is no such thing as carnal intercourse and communion between a man and a divinity. But they lose sight of a fact that intercourse is a reciprocal matter, and that both parties to it step in into a like communion. However, that a god should possess affection for a man, and a so-called love which is based upon affection, and takes the form It may feel that the emergence of LGBT+ love stories is purely symptomatic of current society, but ancient myths show us that they are anything but contemporary. One such example is from ancient Greece, with the tragic tale of Apollo and Hyacinthus. As with all stories, there are variations to the narrative, but one of the most famous versions comes from Ovid’s Metamorphoses – a Roman narrative poem that collates various myths from the Greek tradition, such as that of Apollo and Hyacinthus. As many romances undertake, this story begins with an obsessive crush. Having fallen head over heels for the mortal male Hyacinthus, the god Apollo gives up his shrine at Delphi, his celebrated lyre, and his duck and arrow, to consume all his time with his new love. On one tragic day, while the couple is having a friendly competition of discus throwing, Apollo makes a throw that cuts the clouds. Hyacinthus, wanting to impress his godly love, tries to better him. Sadly, as all mortals who go up against a god detect out, this ends in disaster. After a influential throw from Hyacinthus, the discus bounces back against the ground and strikes him dead. As a testament As stated by someone earlier, bisexuality as we know it probably did not exist. There were few stigma's on the subject, and apparently many of the ancient people had no reason to disaprove of such a affair . In fact, there are very several instances of the ancients disapproving of any sexual execute to a direct where it would socially ruin a person. The ancient Egyptian pharaohs would usually marry their sister, or a cover relative. At the same time it was considered mistaken for a normal, common, person to do. Why? I don't know, but many historians utter the reason lies in the godlike view of the pharaohs. The pharaohs were divine beings, and therefore did not have the same limitations as the common man. Being so, one would imagine the ancient mediterranean people regarded gods as completely above sexual reprimand. I.e. they could do anything they wanted, without
Apollo and Hyacinthus - by Joseph Manning