Well, ok, they're actually pissed that Oliver Stone revealed that Alexander was bisexual in Stone's new movie, Alexander. A bunch of Greek lawyers are getting together and threatening to sue if the movie doesn't include a disclaimer or some such thing, saying that there is no proof that Alexander was gay (the Greek lawyers are saying that bi is gay - whatever). Being Greek-America, and gay, I'm pretty proud of Alexander being bi. So there.
And contrary to the bullshit coming from the Greeks, the Wash Post says Alexander was bi as a... well, he was bi.
Then, there was the question of how to honestly portray Alexander's lifelong male crush -- Platonic and erotic -- on Hephaistion, which was notable even at the time. (One ancient wag suggested that Alexander was never defeated, "except by Hephaistion's thighs.") Alexander's contemporaries appear to have remarked upon his excessive mourning and elaborate funeral arrangements for dear, recently dead (probably from typhoid) Hephaistion. Alexander is said to have mooned around the palace for weeks, cut off his hair and hair from the manes and tails of his horses, and declared that Hephaistion would be worshiped as a divine hero....
As for the bisexuality, Fox says the historical accounts certainly support the love relationship between Hephaistion and Alexander. Homosexuality was an intricate part of the pre-Christian Greek world, well established, and sanctioned by state and cultural norms, especially the relationships between older men and teens. Where Alexander may have differed was that his affair with Hephaistion was lifelong and between men of roughly the same age.
