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Love knows no boundaries — and history proves it. Join us as we count down our picks for the most important LGBTQ romances that shaped the world! From ancient Egyptian servants buried side by side, to pirate lovers sailing the high seas, to iconic artists and world leaders, these couples defied the odds and left their mark on history. Which of these love stories moves you the most? Let us know in the comments!
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00:00I thought this was play. So can we just play?
00:05Welcome to Ms. Mojo. And today we're counting down our picks for the historical LGBTQ plus
00:11couples that you should know about. My dear Virginia, you see I don't take much inducing.
00:18Could you be induced likewise, do you think?
00:23Number 20, Martha May Elliott and Ethel Collins Dunham. These two doctors changed the field of
00:30pediatrics at a time when women had to fight just to be allowed into medical school. They met as
00:36undergraduates in the early 1910s, where they began a romance that would last more than 50 years.
00:41Martha was 19 and the daughter of a minister. Ethel was 26 and had traveled the world before
00:46pursuing higher education. And they fell in love very quickly. They even lived together for the
00:50last few years of college. After they finished their degrees, they became two of the first women
00:56to teach at the Yale School of Medicine. Dunham revolutionized health care for premature and
01:01newborn babies, while Elliott had important roles at the World Health Organization and the United
01:07Nations Children's Fund. During World War II, she ran the emergency maternity and infant care program
01:13for the wives and children of servicemen. Elliott received the Lasker Award for this work in 1948.
01:19In 1957, Dunham became the first woman to receive the John Howland Award, the American Pediatric
01:26Society's most prestigious honor. Elliott became the second woman to receive it 10 years later.
01:32Number 19, Anne Bonny and Mary Read. Their story is the Pirates of the Caribbean movie we wish we'd
01:39gotten. They sailed the high seas in the early 1700s, pillaging, fighting, and killing with the best of
01:51them. They met in 1720, when the captain of Anne's ship attacked Mary's ship and kidnapped some of the
01:58crew. According to one contemporary writer who chronicled the exploits of pirates, Anne was into
02:04Mary from the start. Turns out this one, it sliced the face off some Brit and come to my rescue.
02:11Wow, that's romance. He wrote that the two fell in love and that Anne's husband, himself a notorious
02:18pirate, even threatened to cut Mary's throat out of jealousy. Anne and Mary were known to start brawls
02:24with anyone who insulted them. And a Boston newspaper even named Anne in its list of most wanted pirates.
02:31Another step to know, show you.
02:33Mr. Hammond, permit me a moment with our friend here.
02:35Number 18, Numhotep and Neonknum.
02:38Around 4,500 years ago, these two men worked together as high-ranking servants in the court of
02:45the Egyptian pharaoh. Today, they're believed to be the first known gay couple in recorded history.
02:50They were buried together in an elaborate tomb, and all of the artwork depicts them in intimate
02:56embraces. Besides all of that evidence, some historians also point out that in some paintings,
03:01Numhotep is depicted alongside Neonknum sniffing a lotus flower, which in Egyptian paintings,
03:07it's considered an effeminate depiction, usually reserved for women.
03:10Egyptian tombs were expensive and labor-intensive, so these men must have been important. The most
03:16striking painting in the tomb shows Numhotep and Neonknum, with their arms wrapped around each
03:21other and their noses almost touching, a position reserved for married couples.
03:26Now, just to be clear, this pose of two people holding hands with their noses touching is the
03:32most intimate depiction that was allowed or occurred in Egyptian art. This ain't no bro hug,
03:38okay?
03:38The inscription over the entrance, which would have been chosen by the two men themselves,
03:43reads, quote, joined in life and joined in death. Number 17, Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr.
03:51These two radical progressives met at seminary in 1877, when both were in their late teens.
03:57Ellen and Jane made a deep commitment to each other. They adored and loved one another.
04:05In 1889, they co-founded the Hull House in Chicago, which provided services like child care,
04:11education, and even health care to recently arrived immigrants. Xenophobia was widespread in the U.S.
04:18in the late 1800s. So the Hull House filled an important niche for these marginalized people.
04:23Inside, I found a German reception underway in the library and an Italian reception in the dining room.
04:30A young woman was teaching cooking in the kitchen while a girls' club was meeting in one of the halls.
04:36And in the Butler Art Gallery, a French reading was about to commence.
04:41The charity expanded rapidly, and by 1920, there were 500 Hull Houses across the country.
04:48Addams and Starr lived together in the original house for a few years,
04:51but sadly, their romance wasn't meant to last.
04:55Addams went on to have a 40-year relationship with Hull House volunteer, Mary Rosett Smith,
05:01though she and Starr remained close friends.
05:03Number 16. Nesta Obermer and Gluck
05:06Obermer was an artist, playwright, world traveler, and adventurer.
05:11Gluck was a painter who rejected gender labels and whose exhibitions were attended by Queen Elizabeth herself.
05:16The pair met in 1936 and began an eight-year affair, despite Obermer being married to a man.
05:24They even exchanged rings and considered themselves to be spouses.
05:28There is no way to better demonstrate Gluck's love than by reading an excerpt of one of their love letters.
05:36My own darling wife, I have just driven back in a sudden, almost tropical downpour in keeping with my feelings
05:44at leaving you.
05:45My divine sweetheart, my love, my life.
05:48After attending the opera Don Giovanni together, Gluck was inspired to paint a dual portrait named Medallion,
05:54which Gluck called the you-we picture.
05:57The painting has since become an iconic piece of lesbian art.
06:00The artist represents themselves encompassed by their lover. They are completely absorbed.
06:06Though Gluck had passionate relationships with many women over the course of their long life,
06:10they considered Obermer to be their greatest love.
06:13Number 15. James Baldwin and Lucien Happersberger
06:16Some of Baldwin's most important works might never have been completed if not for Swiss artist Lucien Happersberger.
06:25Love is everywhere in his writing. It's in his essays, right?
06:29The Fire Next Time. He talks about how white and black Americans must, like lovers, come to understand each other
06:35and confront the country's past and present.
06:38All of his novels are love stories, from Giovanni's Room, Go Tell in the Mountain, Another Country, If Beale Street
06:43Could Talk.
06:44They met at a gay bar in Paris in 1949 and formed an instant connection.
06:49Happersberger's family owned a chalet in a tiny village in the Swiss Alps,
06:53and Baldwin needed to escape the distractions of Paris to get some real work done.
06:58Living on Happersberger's family money, they moved to the chalet,
07:02where Baldwin completed his first novel, Go Tell it on the Mountain,
07:05and one of his major essays, Stranger in the Village.
07:09Though they were together only a few years, Baldwin called Happersberger, quote,
07:13the one true love story of my life,
07:16and later dedicated the novel, Giovanni's Room, to him.
07:19The world is held together. Really, it is held together.
07:22By the love and the passion of very few people.
07:28Otherwise, of course, you can despair.
07:31Number 14. Hadrian and Antinus.
07:34Relationships between older and younger men were pretty common in ancient Greece and Rome,
07:39but this one was special.
07:41We don't know for sure when Antinus joined Emperor Hadrian's court,
07:45but we do know that Hadrian was smitten.
07:47Antinus served as a hunting companion, as a soldier, a friend,
07:51and indeed as a lover to the Emperor for five years.
07:56The relationship between the pair seems to have reached a kind of celebrity status
08:00in many areas of the Empire,
08:02with idols and depictions of the two springing up all over the place.
08:06He kept Antinus by his side constantly,
08:09as they traveled all over the Roman Empire, West Asia, and North Africa.
08:14But in the year 130 AD, tragedy struck.
08:17While sailing on the Nile, Antinus mysteriously drowned.
08:21Hadrian was devastated.
08:23He wept openly over the loss, though his critics mocked him for it.
08:26He had Antinus deified as a god, named a star after him,
08:30and had a city built on the site of his death.
08:33Within minutes, almost, cities around the Empire are minting coins in his honor.
08:39Statues, a bit like this one, are being put up both by the Emperor and by local communities.
08:46Even a city is founded after his name on the banks of the River Nile.
08:51Never had an Emperor grieved so much.
08:54Tell your partner about that next time they forget your birthday.
08:57Number 13, James Buchanan and William R. King.
09:00Do we know for sure that the 15th president of the United States was gay?
09:05No.
09:05But many of his contemporaries certainly thought he was.
09:08Buchanan and King lived together for 16 years, and neither ever married.
09:13Gossipers called them Miss Nancy and Aunt Fancy.
09:16But Buchanan spoke about King in a different way.
09:19Buchanan referred to King as his better half,
09:23and wrote affectionate letters to him,
09:25which have been interpreted by some as evidence of a romantic relationship.
09:28They attended social events together,
09:30and many observers remarked that they were inseparable.
09:33When King was away on political business,
09:35a lonely Buchanan wrote a very telling letter to a female friend.
09:39I have gone a-wooing to several gentlemen,
09:41but have not succeeded with any one of them.
09:44I feel that it is not good for a man to be alone,
09:46and should not be astonished to find myself married to some old maid,
09:50who can nurse me when I am sick,
09:52provide good dinners for me when I am well,
09:54and not expect from me any very ardent or romantic affection.
09:59King was elected as Franklin Pierce's vice president in 1852,
10:03but only served 45 days before dying of tuberculosis at age 67.
10:09Number 12.
10:10Michelangelo and Tommaso de Cavalieri.
10:13This gorgeous young aristocrat caught Michelangelo's eye in 1532.
10:18Cavalieri was refined and educated,
10:21and the artist couldn't resist striking up a correspondence,
10:24despite being 35 years older.
10:27If I wish without respite day or night to be there,
10:30it is only to live again,
10:31which cannot be without the soul.
10:34And since the heart is indeed the abode of the soul,
10:37it is only natural to return my soul to its proper place.
10:42The two bonded over their shared love of art,
10:44and Michelangelo gifted Cavalieri four drawings,
10:47which he created just for him.
10:49He also dedicated 30 poems to the younger man,
10:53writing in one,
10:54quote,
10:54love takes me captive,
10:56beauty binds my soul.
10:57The feelings were apparently mutual.
11:00Cavalieri wrote to Michelangelo,
11:02quote,
11:02I swear to return your love.
11:04Never have I loved a man more than I love you.
11:06And yet it seems to be the general consensus that their relationship was platonic,
11:13as tortured as that might have been for Michelangelo.
11:16It just added to the pain and suffering that he experienced every day anyway.
11:22Although Cavalieri's social position required him to marry a woman,
11:26he and Michelangelo remained close,
11:28and he returned to be at the artist's bedside when he passed away in 1564.
11:33Number 11, Tennessee Williams and Frank Merlot.
11:37The writer of A Streetcar Named Desire had his happiest and most productive years
11:41during his relationship with a Sicilian actor named Frank Merlot.
11:45In fact, it was the defining romance of Tennessee Williams' life.
11:49The bond between them brought a rare sense of stability to the famously troubled playwright.
11:54Frank once said very plaintively,
11:56Tom can't accept how much I love him.
11:59That's a very sad commentary,
12:01because Frank Merlot really gave his whole life
12:04to loving of this very wounded genius that was Tennessee Williams.
12:10For 14 years, as Williams battled depression and inner turmoil,
12:15Merlot kept their domestic world running.
12:17While they worked together,
12:18Williams created some of his most successful plays,
12:20including Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Sweet Bird of Youth.
12:24Shortly after they broke up,
12:26Merlot was diagnosed with lung cancer,
12:28and Williams rushed back to his side.
12:31He cared for Merlot until his passing in 1963.
12:35Tennessee said,
12:36I have been in a deep depression since Frank's death.
12:41And he was, I mean, and you could just see it.
12:44He was rendered almost immobile.
12:47Number 10, Max de Mornis and Colette.
12:51The Marquis de Mornis was assigned female at birth,
12:54but as an adult, he took the name Max,
12:56went by Monsieur,
12:57and dressed in men's clothing.
12:59Colette was a talented novelist married to an older man
13:02who published her books under his own name,
13:05kept all the profits,
13:06and reportedly locked her in her room to force her to write.
13:09When I think of the hours I spent alone,
13:13slaving away for you,
13:16churning out scenes just to try and please you,
13:19I am so ashamed of myself for that.
13:23And yet I knew,
13:25and you knew,
13:27that I was bound to do it.
13:29After separating from him,
13:30she moved in with Max in 1906.
13:33Colette continued to write,
13:34and the two performed in the theater together.
13:37Because Max was an aristocrat,
13:39his birth gender was no secret,
13:40and when he and Colette shared an onstage kiss,
13:44it sparked a riot that got the police involved.
13:46After that,
13:47they were forced to keep their relationship a secret.
13:50Somebody told you.
13:51I didn't need to be told.
13:53Meeting you is enough.
13:54Number 9,
13:55Marcella Gracia Ibeas
13:57and Elisa Sanchez Loriga.
14:00More than a century before same-sex marriage
14:03was legalized in Spain,
14:04these two beat the system.
14:06They met at a teacher's college,
14:08and in 1901,
14:09Elisa began dressing as a man
14:11and posing as her dead cousin Mario,
14:13even getting baptized under that name.
14:15This enabled the couple
14:16to be legally married in the church.
14:18Bisa keepere Mario,
14:20ik presenten in tuum legitimum maritum,
14:22juxtarritum santa e matris ecclesiae,
14:25responde at sponsa,
14:27Bolo.
14:29Bolo.
14:31Ego conjungo vos in matrimonio,
14:33in nomine patras,
14:35et filis,
14:36et spiritus santis.
14:38Amen.
14:39Unfortunately,
14:40the secret soon came out.
14:41It even made front page news in Galicia
14:44under the headline,
14:45A Marriage Without a Man.
14:47Marcella and Elisa were forced to flee to Argentina,
14:50but their marriage was never annulled.
14:53It's still on the books today
14:55as Spain's first gay marriage.
14:57The U.S., of course,
14:58has Jim Obergefell and John Arthur
15:00to thank for the landmark Supreme Court case
15:03that legalized marriage equality.
15:05Hundreds of thousands of couples
15:06have gotten married since June 26, 2015.
15:10And that's something we should celebrate.
15:13And I'm really, really grateful
15:15that I got to be part of that.
15:17And it's simply because John and I loved each other
15:19and we wanted to exist.
15:21Number eight,
15:22Harmonious and Aristogitian.
15:25How many couples can say
15:26they assassinated a tyrant together?
15:28According to their folk traditions
15:30and drinking songs,
15:31democracy was born in a single moment of excellence
15:33when Harmonious and Aristogitian
15:35killed the tyrant Hipparchus,
15:36freeing the people of Athens
15:37to live as equals under the law forever after.
15:40Great work, team.
15:41Let's get drunk.
15:42Harmonious and Aristogitian lived in Athens
15:44in the 6th century BC.
15:47The ruler Hipparchus had seized power
15:49outside the state's constitutional law.
15:51He also propositioned Harmonious,
15:54who rejected him, obviously,
15:56then publicly humiliated Harmonious's sister in revenge.
15:59This could not stand.
16:01Harmonious and Aristogitian
16:03plotted to kill Hipparchus
16:04during Athens' version of the Olympics.
16:07They succeeded,
16:08stabbing him to death
16:09right in front of the Acropolis.
16:11In the frenzy,
16:12Harmonious was killed
16:13by one of Hipparchus's guards
16:15and Aristogitian was arrested
16:17and also later killed.
16:19But the two were celebrated as national heroes
16:21and became known as the tyrannicides.
16:24Gli Atenesi vorranno honorare
16:27questo gesto di grande libertà
16:29e di grande onore
16:31di Armodio e Aristogitone
16:33elevando loro un gruppo statuario
16:35commissionandolo allo scultore Antenore.
16:37Number 7.
16:38Lili Elba and Goethe Wergener.
16:41They met at a young age
16:42at art school in Copenhagen
16:44when Elba,
16:45who was assigned male at birth,
16:47was still living as a man.
16:48They married in 1904
16:50and sometime in the 1910s,
16:53Elba began modeling for Wergener's paintings
16:55in women's clothing.
16:56I was wondering where you were.
16:59It's getting late.
17:02We have plenty of time.
17:04What do you think?
17:06Ah!
17:10Oh, perfect.
17:12Later, she took the name Lili
17:14and started living full-time as a woman.
17:17In 1930,
17:18Elba traveled to the Hirschfeld Institute
17:20for Sexual Science in Germany
17:22to undergo several gender confirmation surgeries.
17:25She legally changed her name
17:27and even got a passport
17:28indicating she was female.
17:30Unfortunately,
17:31this caused the Danish government
17:33to annul their marriage
17:34since same-sex unions
17:36were illegal.
17:37Elba passed away in 1931
17:39due to complications from surgery.
17:41Their story was portrayed
17:43in the 2015 film
17:44The Danish Girl.
17:45You mustn't worry about me anymore, Gerda.
17:50It's an old habit.
17:54I must look to change.
18:01How have I ever deserved such love?
18:03Number 6, Frida Kahlo and Josephine Baker.
18:07The iconic Mexican artist
18:09was known to have love affairs
18:10with both men and women,
18:12including some of her husband's girlfriends.
18:14Photographer Tina Modati
18:16may have been one of them,
18:17at least according to the 2002 film Frida.
18:20But Kahlo found a kindred spirit
18:22in singer, dancer, and actress
18:24Josephine Baker.
18:25He's not like that.
18:26Hey, Zuzu, you're an amoureux?
18:28He's beautiful.
18:29Oh, all of us are beautiful.
18:31Kahlo traveled to Paris
18:32for an exhibition in 1939.
18:35Baker had already been living there
18:36for 14 years.
18:38And like Kahlo,
18:39she'd had plenty of affairs
18:40with people of different genders.
18:42Though there's no definitive proof
18:43they had a relationship,
18:45there were plenty of rumors,
18:46plus at least one photo
18:48of them together.
18:49Baker also visited Kahlo
18:51in Mexico City in 1952,
18:53a long way to travel
18:54just to see a pen pal.
18:56I was afraid to consult
18:57and to confront the people
18:59that I'd known so many years ago,
19:01wondering if they're still friends
19:03who remembered me
19:04or are still alive
19:05and so on and so forth.
19:07But when I got here,
19:08I found you
19:09and I found so many others
19:11who were glad to see me.
19:12Number five,
19:13Harriet E. Giles
19:14and Sophia B. Packard.
19:16Did you know that
19:17the historically black Spellman College
19:19was founded by two lesbians
19:21from Massachusetts?
19:22Giles and Packard
19:24met at New Salem Academy
19:25around 1855
19:27and they immediately bonded for life.
19:30After about 20 years
19:31teaching in New England,
19:32the two women traveled to Atlanta
19:34with only $100
19:35to open a school for black women.
19:37Sophia and Harriet
19:39launched the Atlanta Baptist
19:41Female Seminary
19:42in the basement
19:43of the Friendship Baptist Church
19:45in 1881.
19:47In addition to teaching,
19:49the two women led prayer meetings,
19:51conducted Sunday school,
19:52and administered life skill classes
19:55that enabled women
19:56to be self-supporting.
19:57Eventually,
19:58they managed to drum up support
20:00from John D. Rockefeller
20:01and his wife Laura Spellman,
20:03hence the college's name.
20:05Giles and Packard
20:06ran the school
20:06until their deaths,
20:07and they're now buried together
20:09in their home state.
20:10They began with
20:1111 African-American women.
20:13Today,
20:14Spellman College
20:14boasts a student enrollment
20:16of slightly more than
20:172,100 women
20:18pursuing undergraduate
20:20and postgraduate degrees.
20:22Crazily enough,
20:23they're not the only
20:24New England lesbians
20:25who founded a school
20:26for black students.
20:27Caroline Putnam
20:28started the Hawley School
20:29in 1868,
20:31named for her partner
20:32Sally Hawley.
20:34Number four,
20:35Queen Christina of Sweden
20:36and Countess Ebba Spara.
20:38This queen was so determined
20:40not to marry a man
20:41that she gave up
20:41her throne instead.
20:43Christina was technically
20:44crowned king
20:45at her 1633 coronation.
20:48Ebba Spara was a noblewoman
20:49and the most beautiful
20:50lady-in-waiting
20:51at Christina's court,
20:53and the queen took notice.
20:54What is she doing here?
20:56From now on,
20:57I'll be choosing
20:58my ladies-in-waiting myself.
21:02The ladies' seat
21:03restricts us to trotting
21:05and it makes us
21:05look ridiculous.
21:07Get down.
21:08Give her your saddle!
21:10The two were close.
21:11Christina introduced Ebba
21:13to one diplomat
21:14as her bedfellow
21:15and admitted to another
21:16that they were in love.
21:17But as a monarch,
21:18Christina was expected
21:19to marry and produce an heir.
21:21That wasn't happening.
21:22I do not wish to marry
21:23and they cannot force me.
21:25You must give Sweden an heir.
21:28Not by chance, Chancellor.
21:31You are Sweden's queen.
21:33You are your father's daughter.
21:39Must we live for the dead?
21:42Her popularity declining,
21:44Christina gave up her rule
21:45to her male cousin in 1654.
21:48She disguised herself
21:49in men's clothes
21:50and fled to the Netherlands.
21:51She and Ebba
21:52wrote to each other often,
21:54but Ebba became ill
21:55and passed away in 1662.
21:58Number three,
21:59Virginia Woolf
22:00and Vida Sackville-West.
22:01They were two of the most
22:02important English writers
22:04in the early 20th century
22:05and they produced
22:06some of their greatest works
22:08during their 10 years together.
22:10To keep it up.
22:11What?
22:12The belief
22:13that I achieve things.
22:16I have need of it.
22:17Sackville-West's love
22:19helped Woolf heal
22:20from her traumatic childhood
22:21and Woolf confided
22:23that it was the first
22:23satisfying sexual relationship
22:25she'd ever had.
22:27She even based
22:27the protagonist
22:28of her famous novel
22:29Orlando,
22:30a biography on Vida.
22:32But Woolf was bothered
22:33by Sackville-West's
22:35libertine attitude
22:36towards sex
22:37and relationships
22:37and eventually
22:38the couple split.
22:40However,
22:40they remained devoted friends
22:42and kept in close touch
22:43until Woolf's death
22:44a few years later
22:45in 1941.
22:47For you,
22:48I feel a really
22:49overwhelming sorrow.
22:53And for myself,
22:55a loss
22:57which can never
22:58diminish
23:01Vida.
23:02Number two,
23:04Oscar Wilde
23:05and Lord Alfred Douglas.
23:06Their torrid relationship
23:08might have had a chance
23:09if they'd lived
23:10a century later.
23:11They met in 1891
23:12when Douglas
23:13was a college student
23:15and Wilde
23:15was already
23:16a famous playwright.
23:17Wilde didn't try
23:18very hard
23:19to hide his sexuality,
23:20but Douglas
23:21was even more brash.
23:22He loves me
23:26He is his
23:30Fa la la la
23:34Fa la la
23:36Their recklessness
23:37became Wilde's undoing.
23:39Douglas' father,
23:41the Marquess of Queensberry,
23:42was furious with Wilde
23:44for gallivanting about
23:45publicly with his son.
23:46He accused Wilde
23:47of homosexuality,
23:48which was illegal
23:49at the time,
23:50prompting Wilde
23:51to foolishly sue him
23:52for libel.
23:53When the defenses
23:54presented several young men
23:56willing to testify
23:56to having affairs
23:57with Wilde,
23:58the playwright
23:59was forced to drop
23:59his case
24:00and pay Queensberry's
24:02legal fees,
24:02which bankrupted him.
24:04Wilde was imprisoned
24:05later that year.
24:06Goodbye, person.
24:07Dear boy,
24:08don't let anyone,
24:10anything,
24:10ever change your feeling
24:11for me.
24:12Change your love.
24:14See you next time.
24:15Time's up, my lord.
24:17Oscar, never.
24:18They never will.
24:19I won't let them.
24:20I won't let them.
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24:531. Alexander the Great
24:56and Hefeshton
24:57This emperor
24:58and his general
24:59were so devoted
25:00to each other
25:00that when Hefeshton
25:02died unexpectedly,
25:02it might have actually
25:04killed Alexander.
25:06The pair grew up together
25:07and remained inseparable
25:08throughout their lives.
25:10Alexander's tutor,
25:11Aristotle,
25:12even called them,
25:13quote,
25:13one soul abiding
25:14two bodies.
25:15You'll be by my side,
25:16right?
25:21Till the bitter end.
25:22In 324 BC,
25:25Hefeshton suddenly
25:26became ill
25:26and died
25:27and Alexander
25:28lost his mind.
25:30I worry for you
25:31without me.
25:32I am nothing
25:33without you.
25:36Come,
25:37fight,
25:38Hefeshton.
25:40We will die together.
25:44It's our destiny.
25:46He had to be dragged away
25:47from Hefeshton's body
25:48and for two days
25:50he didn't eat or speak.
25:51He only lay
25:52on the ground weeping.
25:53He had Hefeshton's
25:55daughter hanged,
25:56arranged a funeral
25:57that cost around
25:57$200 million
25:59in today's money
26:00and declared Hefeshton
26:01a divine hero.
26:03From that point on,
26:04Alexander's health
26:05declined
26:06and he died
26:07of unknown causes
26:08just eight months later.
26:09Which of these
26:10queer love stories
26:11hits you the hardest?
26:12Let us know
26:13in the comments.
26:19We'll see you next time.
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