[vladimir998]

I agree with much of what Prager says, but clearly he doesn’t understand medieval France:

“In medieval France, when men stressed male-male love, it “implied a corresponding lack of interest in women. In the Song of Roland, a French mini-epic given its final form in the late eleventh or twelfth century, women appear only as shadowy marginal figures: “The deepest signs of affection in the poem, as well as in similar ones appear in the love of man for man...”

The Song of Roland is a military epic, a tragedy wrapped in bravery. In all ancient and medieval military epics there were expressions of love - that’s friendship, people - between men. There were no women in the armies after all! The love between male characters in the Song of Roland was not homosexual, sexual, or even “homo-erotic”. It was simply friendship. It was no more sexual than the love between Frodo and Sam in the Lord of the Rings (and homosexuals are trying to claim that was sexual too!).

[Irish Rose]

Have you ever read C.S. Lewis's The Four Loves? In the chapter "Friendship", he argued that friendship - which he distinguishes from having allies or companions - is a love. He wrote that Friendship is different from Eros; the two loves can co-exist (your spouse can be your friend as well as your lover) but they can also be separate. He spent several pages arguing against the theory that close friendships between men (people don't suspect it of women) are homosexual.