The New Cultus of Antinous
Antinous is the God of all Gay people, he was a homosexual, and it is therefore our calling as gay men to restore his name and the place of his religion to the reverence of his ancient past. Hadrian deified Antinous because he loved him, because he wanted to give Antinous everything that he had within his power to bestow upon Antinous. By signing up you agree to terms and conditions and privacy policy. I agree to the Art UK terms and conditions and privacy policy.
The New Cultus of Antinous
The center of the cult was established at the site of Antinous’s death, where Hadrian founded the city of Antinoöpolis. The cult of this beautiful god of death and rebirth spread rapidly across the empire, as Antinous’s humble origins found wide appeal. Antinous drowned in the Nile river in October of the year The local people of Egypt indicated that Antinous had become a sacred being
Antinoism
With the growth of Pagan spirituality in the twentieth century, it is unsurprising that various gay men chose to resurrect his worship for modern-day needs, and that now, in the early twenty-first century, a small but devoted community of Antinous worshipers operates throughout the world. Well, here it is! Apologies for the great delay. 
Antinous
By the late nineteenth century, Antinous had come to replace Ganymede as the icon of choice for gay art collectors. The troubling paedophilia aspect of the Ganymede myth was in some ways eclipsed by images of Antinous – a handsome young man instead of a cherubic child. Yet the stories of these two gay icons continued to speak to gay men. Antinous was purely and profoundly Homosexual, even if the concept of Homosexuality in ancient Rome was quite different from our modern definition, Antinous never-the-less was understood to be of essentially the same nature as a modern homosexual. He was deified and worshiped as a god because he had been the beautiful lover of Hadrian, Emperor of Rome.
Divine homosexuality
6 There are many who see Antinous as the divinity of a gay cult, or at least as being a homosexual icon. There is also a modern cult of Antinous, whose primary focus is his role as a homosexual deity. Antinous , an enigmatic and mysterious figure from ancient Rome, is famed for having been the lover of Emperor Hadrian. His life has been the subject of admiration, curiosity, and debate for nearly two millennia. The Gay Religion of Antinous
Given the same-sex nature of the couple’s relationship, Antinous has come to be seen by many practitioners as “the Gay God” and his cultus has primarily attracted gay men. . Naos Antinoou
Antinous is modernally sometimes referred to as the “gay god” and is known to be the queer pagan god of homotheosis and the sacralization and divinization of trans and genderqueer bodies. . This ancient gay emperor made a cult of his dead lover
Bust of Antinous. Roman, CE; found in Hadrian’s Villa, Tivoli, Italy. Antinous, the young companion of the emperor Hadrian (ruled CE), drowned in the Nile in CE and was posthumously honored with a cult that was celebrated throughout the Roman Empire. .