[sit-rep]

and the homo factor just never registered on my screen.

How could it not?? Especially the scene where that one guy, not his best friend, the other very feminine looking ... ummmmmmm... climbed into bed with him?

[muawiyah]

Now that was definitely wrong ~ not because the homosexual behavior was wrong but because Alexander and all his friends were, first of all, some really tough soldiers.

I doubt there was any effeminancy in any of them at any time. Definitely rough trade all the way around.