[AmericanSamurai]

Okay, those daggum homosekshuls, they even fooled me with their propaganda. :P

[allmendream]

Alexander and Hephaestion were compared to Achilles and Patroclus, by others and by themselves.

While the relationship of Achilles and Patroclus may or may not have been homosexual (very common and sometimes even institutionalized among the Greeks); during the time of Alexander such a comparison was bound to have such connotations.

So I guess the lesson would be that if you don't want such speculation of homosexuality about the close relationship between yourself and your lifelong male companion; you don't go around comparing yourself and him to two who were widely believed to be so.