Gay Bomb
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Actually Plato advocated for sending gay couples into battle because they would fight harder for each other:
"If only, then, a city or an army could be composed of none but lover and beloved, how could they deserve better of their country than by shunning all that is base, in mutual emulation? And men like these fighting shoulder to shoulder, few as they were, might conquer – I had almost said – the whole world in arms. For the lover would rather anyone than his beloved should see him leave the ranks or throw away his arms in flight – nay, he would sooner die a thousand deaths. Nor is there any lover so faint of heart that he could desert his beloved or fail to help him in the hour of peril, for the very presence of Love kindles the same flame of valor in the faintest heart that burns in those whose courage is innate."
from the Symposium: http://truetales.org/writings/pe…