Same-Sex Marriage-Like Arrangements

Monday, November 9, 2026 - 08:00 The Lesbian Historic Motif Project It's pretty rare for me to cover any publications that deal exclusively with male same-sex topics, but this article laying out the case for the "marriage-like" symbolism in the tomb of two ancient Egyptian men is worth studying for the process of analysis. Brief references to this couple show upregularly in "sound-bite" queer history contexts, but the full context is both more interesting and less straightforward. For examples of similar "marriage-like relations in funerary commemorations" for women, see my podcast "Death Did Not Them Depart." Major category: LHMPTags: LHMP LHMP #585 Reeder 2000 Same-Sex Desire, Conjugal Constructs, and the Tomb of Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep About LHMP Full citation: Reeder, Greg. “Same-Sex Desire, Conjugal Constructs, and the Tomb of Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep” in World Archaeology, vol. 32, no. 2, 2000, pp. 193–208. Anyone who follows queer history has probably at some point seen…

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