But that does not mean that homoerotic themes in the larger and more cross cultural senses have never existed in our literary or visual and performing arts.

Later I found out from the Internet what every film buff and "Brokeback" reviewer knows: "Red River" is famous for its suggestion of homoerotic behavior on the range.

In Persian poetry, in our classical ghazal in particular, and because in Persian we do not have gender-specific pronouns, the figure of "the beloved" is as much hetero-erotic as it is homoerotic."