Don't be taken in by PC bullshit. This is at the core of the drive to homosexualize the military, and to emasculate the culture generally.
We know from the reparative therapy research, the one universal element missing from the homosexual's lifestyle is a solid age-appropriate close nonsexual relationship with other guys. And that is just what the enemy seeks to delegitimize.
I wish the ancient Greeks where here to defend their culture since I think they are getting a bad rap on the homosexual thing.
The ancients, not just the Greeks, believed that woman was inferior to man, physically and mentally. The Greeks placed a very high level on intellect and learning as well as physical ability. Therefore the Greeks believed that a women was not worthy of a mans "love", since she processed an inferior intellect. True "love" was only possible in a male male relationship between two equal partners. However "love" in the Greek sense did not mean sex. Sex was for male female pairings. Love was more of an intellectual thing not a physical thing. Of course local culture differed from city state to city state. The Romans which borrowed heavily from Greek culture executed homosexuals in it's legions and frowned on homosexuals in society.