The serpent in Genesis, according to Gnostic thinking, as recorded in Hippolytus's account in Refutation of all Heresies, the serpent had homosexual intercourse with Adam, and intoduced depravity to the world.
Opheus. After his wife Eurydice's death, Orpheus was said to have turned to young men for comfort.
King Laius, According to some Greek sources, the man who would later father Oedipus was banished fromThebes and sought refuge at the court of Pelops. Falling in love with Pelop's beautiful 12-year old son, Chrysippus , Laius kidnapped and raped him. Chysippus killed himself, and Pelops pronounced the curse that would be Laius's undoing: that Laius would have a son who would "kill his father, marry his mother and bring ruin on his native city."
Lot. Though in the Hebrew Bible, God flavors Lot by warning him to flee Sodom before its destruction, Arabs appear to Hold him responsible for the "sin of Sodom," calling homosexuals "the people of Lot."
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