A homoerotic Hercules helped turn this sword-and-sandal adventure flick into camp spectacle

Image Credit: ‘Jason And The Argonauts,’ Columbia Pictures Home Video

Welcome back to our queer film retrospective, “A Gay Old Time.” In this week’s column, we’re revisiting a campy sword-and-sandal classic with 1963’s Jason And The Argonauts.

In anticipation of the release of Gladiator II next weekend, we’re looking back at a genre that has historically been filled with homoerotic imagery of strong, muscular men and themes of platonic friendship—and romance—via a groundbreaking movie that has for generations awakened a sense of adventure and wonder in moviegoers… in addition to perhaps some other type of feelings.

It’s a historical fact that same-love attraction and relationships were abundant and culturally accepted in Greco-Roman times. Although perhaps understood in a different context than how we see them now, we’re

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