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  🪷 23 Sept is #BiVisibilityDay 💖💜💙💜💗💙💜💓💜💙 #CelebrateBisexualityDay each and every day! Celebrate the wonderfully magical and divine person you are! #bisexuality+ #BiVisibility #BiVisibilityWeek #Biproud #BiVisibilitymonth #biphobia #biweek💕💜💙 🪷

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  🪷 This is the first priest of #Antinous in 1,600 years to visit #Antinoopolis Egypt where #Antinoos died and was deified. Read Priest #AntoniusSubia 's first-hand account of this historic visit escorted by armed guards and welcomed by smiling villagers: https://antinousgaygod.blogspot.com/2026/02/antonius-subia-first-priest-of-antinous.html 🪷

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  🪷 20 Sept is the feast day of St. Eustace, Christian saint linked to #Hadrian. Hunting at Tivoli in Hadrian's reign, he saw a crucifix in a stag's antlers. Patron of hunters, firefighters. His deer is on Jägermeister bottle labels. Read the full story: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2026/09/the-roman-general-under-hadrian-who-had.html 🪷

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  🪷 #50thAnniversary ... The ambitious BBC series "I, Claudius" premiered on 20 September 1976 ... 50 years ago! The series was a milestone in television historical dramas, setting new standards for historically accurate scripts, set design and costumes. For example, the armour cuirass worn by actor #GeorgeBaker (playing #Tiberius ) was an exact copy of the armour cuirass depicted on the #Augustus of Prima Porta marble statue. #IClaudius 🪷

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  🪷 Antinous would be forgotten save for him: Emperor #AntoninusPius was born 19 Sept 86 AD. He piously, diligently and faithfully carried out predecessor #Hadrian 's wishes to enable religion of #Antinous to grow and flourish throughout the Roman Empire: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2026/09/the-birth-of-antoninus-pius.html 🪷

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  🪷 #Lanuvium was the hometown of Hadrian's heir #AntoninusPius, born 19 Sept 86 AD. Lanuvium was a major center of worship of #Antinous. This relief showing Antinous with a dog was found at Lanuvium. Its inscription says #Antinoos ' birthday is 27 Nov: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-lanuvium-inscription-explained-by.html 🪷

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  🪷 Retrograde #Chiron now re-enters #Aries to stay until 14 April 2027 to double down on spiritual healing. The wounded #Centaur tutored heroes and demigods such as #Achilles #Jason #Perseus #Theseus #Ajax #Dionysus #Hercules. He can help you too: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2026/09/astro-forecast-september-10th-2026.html 🪷

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  🪷 Worshipers of Antinous around the world convened tonight via Zoom to commemorate the Sacred #LionHunt, the last recorded event in the life of #Antinous, when he and #Hadrian slew a man-eating lion in Egypt in August 130 AD. Full report here: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2026/08/antinous-worshipers-worldwide-take-part.html 🪷

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  📚 9 Aug is #BookLoversDay: In "Queen Julius Caesar," our own Priest of #Antinous #MartinCampbell tells the untold story of young Julius Caesar and the meeting that was to break through his otherwise untouched emotions. Order: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Queen-Julius-Caesar-Martin-Campbell/dp/0244868468/ More: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2026/07/martin-campbells-historical-novel-queen.html #NationalBookLoversDay 📚

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  📚 9 Aug is #BookLoversDay ... #BookTip: "The Love God" by #MartinCampbell. Well-researched Historical Novel about the life of #Antinous: https://www.amazon.com/-/de/dp/1500902543 #NationalBookLoversDay 📚

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  📚 9 Aug is #BookLoversDay ... #BookTip: "The Love God" by #MartinCampbell. Well-researched Historical Novel about the life of #Antinous: https://www.amazon.com/-/de/dp/1500902543 #NationalBookLoversDay 📚

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  🪷 August 8th is a turning point in history for all LGBTQIA+ people! Emperor #Trajan died 8 Aug 117 AD, enabling #Hadrian to become Emperor. We celebrate the Accession of Hadrian as a miracle ... without which #Antinous would never have been known. More: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-accession-of-hadrian-as-emperor-of.html 🪷

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  🪷 8 Aug is #WorldCatDay: In August 130 AD #Antinous & #Hadrian entered Egypt via #Pelusium, where centuries earlier the Persians sent cats into battle against cat-worshiping Egyptians, who refused to fight feline foes & surrendered: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2024/08/antinous-and-hadrians-entry-into-egypt.html #InternationalCatDay 🪷

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  🪷 8 Aug is #WorldCatDay #InternationalCatDay: Did #Antinous and #Hadrian see the big #Bastet/ #Sekhmet cat temple when they arrived in #Alexandria in August 130 AD? They could hardly have missed it! Now it has been rediscovered: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2026/08/happy-world-cat-day-is-your-home-cat.html #CatDay 🪷

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  🪷 Entry deadline is August 27th for the #SacredGames of #Antinous! Winners will be announced 30th August 2026 Enter here: https://www.antinopolis.org/religion/games.html For more information: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2026/06/heres-your-chance-to-be-champion-in.html 🪷

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  🪷✨☄️💥 This is the best week to see the #Perseid meteor shower ... 60 shooting stars a minute. The #Perseids are easier to see this year due to the diminished light of the crescent moon🌛. Our sky map shows the near-Earth asteroid (or dwarf planet) Antinous. It is as if #Antinous is shooting his arrows of fiery love into your heart💥☄️✨. Here is how to wish upon a falling star: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2026/07/antinous-shoots-his-arrows-into-your.html 🪷

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  🪷 #Antinous "kisses" #SineadOConnor in her iconic "Nothing Compares 2 U" video. The song of longing for a lost lover resonates with LGBTQ people. She once said: "I'm 3/4 heterosexual, 1/4 gay." Born 8 Dec 1966, died 26 July 2023. Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/0-EF60neguk 🪷

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  🪷 14 July #NationalNudeDay: "The Discus Thrower" (Diskobolus) 1889 by Polish artist Stefan Bakalowicz 1857-1947. It shows a nude youth resembling #Antinous with a discus in front of a "herme" which appears to be a bust of #Hadrian in a setting which could be #HadriansVilla. 🪷

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  🪷 🌈❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 #PRIDE #EdwardCarpenter​ died 28 June 1929 in obscurity. Now he is recognised as an LGBTQIA+ pioneer and as a saint of #Antinous: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2026/06/edward-carpenter-saint-of-antinous.html 🪷

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  🪷 8 May is #NoSocksDay and 9 May is #LostSockMemorialDay: #Antinoopolis, built where #Antinous died in Oct 130 AD, is known for woven cloth, tapestries. Now a child's stripey sock found in an #Antinopolis dump reveals innovative weaving and dyeing techniques. Such socks were exported throughout the empire. They have been found as far away as Roman Legion outposts at Hadrian's Wall in Britannia. Full report: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2026/05/stripey-sock-shows-antinoopoli...

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  🪷 8 May is #NoSocksDay and 9 May is #LostSockMemorialDay: #Antinoopolis, built where #Antinous died in Oct 130 AD, is known for woven cloth, tapestries. Now a child's stripey sock found in an #Antinopolis dump reveals innovative weaving and dyeing techniques. Such socks were exported throughout the empire. They have been found as far away as Roman Legion outposts at Hadrian's Wall in Britannia. Full report: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2026/05/stripey-sock-shows-antinoopoli...

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  🪷 "One of the strengths of the belief in #Antinous was its appeal to the most sensitive and inward of mystical natures as well as to the exuberant, joyous and ecstatic sides of human experience" -- #RoystonLambert, author of the authoritative book "Beloved And God: The Story Of Hadrian and Antinous."🪷

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  🪷 6 May 1933 Nazis raid Berlin #MagnusHirschfeld institute, the world's first sexual research center and LGBTQIA rights advocacy headquarters. They smash #Antinous #Albani basrelief, ransack files, burn books. Thus started the #GayHolocaust. More here: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-day-nazis-stormed-worlds-first-gay.html 🪷

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  🪷 5 April #ReadARoadMapDay: Take the Blue Line to Alexandria and change to the #ViaHadriana Green Line for #Antinoopolis and Syene and points south up the Nile. Geographer #SashaTrubetskoy has created this Roman Roads subway-style map: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2022/06/a-fantasy-subway-transit-map-of-ancient.html 🪷

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  🪷 The first modern chanson song about #Antinous! This gentle love ballad is sung by French chanteur Hervé Cristiani from an album entitled "Antinoüs" inspired by Marguerite #Yourcenar 's novel "Mémoires d'Hadrien" (Hadrian's Memoirs). We love that #HervéCristiani pronounces the name "Antinous" the way that it should be pronounced, the way that Hadrian whispered his name. There aren't too many songs about #Antin...

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  #AutismAcceptanceDay April is Autism Acceptance Month and April 2nd is World Autism Acceptance Day ... formerly called Autism Awareness Day and symbolized by a "missing" jigsaw puzzle piece ... We are far beyond awareness. We ACCEPT autistic people as infinitely wonderful, complete, crucial members of our world. The golden Möbius infinity loop represents the never-ending ability of people with Autism Spectrum Disorders to learn new things and grow. #AutismAcceptance #AutismAcce...

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  🪷 At the March #Equinox we weep for slain #Adonis, gored in the groin by #Mars (in the guise of a boar) in jealous rage over #Venus' desire for the handsome mortal. #Antinous oft likened to Adonis, Classical ideal of male beauty. https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2026/03/we-mourn-death-of-antinous-adonis.html Art: #Farnese Statue #AntoniusSubia 🪷

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  🪷 21 March is #FragranceDay: Ancient statues of #Antinous were painted, gilded ... and were perfumed! A study in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology says Greek and Roman sculptures were impregnated with fragrances. Full details: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2026/03/antinous-and-magic-of-scent-experts-say.html #NationalFragranceDay 🪷

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  🪷 Happy Egyptian Mother's Day! #EgyptianMothersDay is celebrated on March 21st, the first day of spring. Egyptian journalist Ali Amin first proposed the idea of a holiday for children to "treat their mothers like queens" ... and it has been celebrated since 1956. We remember #Horus and #Isis. #mothersday 🪷

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  🪷 Our 24th Anniversary!🌈 On 11 March 2002 the Temple of Antinous website went online, the first proclamation of the restoration of the Religion of #Antinous since ancient times: https://antinopolis.org/ Visit the world's largest Antinous art gallery here: https://www.antinopolis.org/gallery.html Full details here: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-temple-of-antinous-website-went.html 🪷