User blog comment:Ralok/Help from halo fans/@comment-217683-20100427025802

Also, as for your point that Leonidas couldn't be homosexual because "didnt leonidas have a QUEEN?"- what of it? The fact he had a queen proved nothing, and pointing out that he had a queen to claim that he couldn't be gay only demonstrates complete and utter ignorance of Spartan society and culture.

Of course he had a queen! He was one of the two kings of Sparta! It was part of his official duties to marry and produce an heir. However, as anyone who knows more about Sparta than you can learn in 300 could tell you, the Spartans had two compulsory systems for their male citizens. The first was to marry. The second was a system of institutional pederasty, in which young soldiers and soldiers in training would be paired with older men who would be their mentors and lovers. Institutional homosexuality was the norm in Sparta, as was marriage between one man and one woman. So the fact that Leonidas had a wife really proves nothing. Well, nothing other than a disturbing lack of knowledge about what Sparta was actually like.