[Antoninus]

How could anyone really know that? Besides, does anyone really think the subject of same-sex marriage was even talked about then?

Sure it was. See?

"[Nero] castrated the boy Sporus and actually tried to make a woman of him; and he married him with all the usual ceremonies, including a dowry and a bridal veil, took him to his house attended by a great throng, and treated him as his wife. And the witty jest that someone made is still current, that it would have been well for the world if Nero's father Domitius had had that kind of wife."
-Suetonius: NERO XXVII-XXIX

[aruanan]

How could anyone really know that? Besides, does anyone really think the subject of same-sex marriage was even talked about then?

Sure it was. See?

For that day and age, that's sort of like talking about something taking place in Bosnia having cultural relevance to folks living in the highlands of Papua New Guinea.