Archaeologists have claimed they may well have found the oldest gay in the village. A 5 000 year old burial site and human remains are causing the stir and it’s got to do with the way the skeletal remains have been buried.

The remains are strongly believed to be from the Corded Ware culture that was characterised by the craft of pottery, and who also buried such elements along with the remains of the deceased.

This was often done in a very specific manner, which just so happened to be gender specific.

Men were traditionally buried lying on their right side with the head pointing towards the west and women on their left side with the head facing east.

The Czech Archaeological Society’s Kamila Remisova Vesinova explained:

We found one very specific grave of a man lying in the position of a woman, without gender specific grave goods, neither jewellery or weapons.

So we think based on data that it could be a member of a so-called third gender, which were people either with different sexual orientation or transsexuals or just people who identified themselves differently from the rest of the society.

Katerina Semradova, another member of the archaeological team, recalled that previously they had unearthed a female warrior buried as a man from the Mesolithic period, but:

This later discovery was neither of those. We believe this is one of the earliest cases of what could be described as a transvestite or third-gender grave in the Czech Republic.

Obviously we can only speculate as to the real truth of why our man was buried the way he was. Then again, that’s what we have archaeologists for.

[Source: TimeNewsfeed]