It's also worth pointing out that Julius Caesar fiercely denied allegations of same-sex affairs made against him, in particular that he had 'played the woman' to the eastern king Mithridates. That wouldn't have been necessary, and his enemies wouldn't have promoted the rumours in the first place, if there wasn't politically-damaging shame attached to it. The Romans regarded boy love as a foreign Greek habit, more proof that they weren't cool with hit.
So no, public sanctions against homosexuality aren't a recent or a peculiarly Christian practice.
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