Does anyone know anything about a homosexual legion in ancient Roman Army?

Question: Does anyone know anything about a homosexual legion in ancient Roman Army!?

I had heard this referenced in a history book once but haven't been able to find more information on it!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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I have never encountered any reference to any such unit in any of the primary sources we possess!. Are you thinking of the Theban 'Sacred Band', a Greek unit kept by the city-state of Thebes, which is documented during the 5th and 4th centuries BC!?

This unit consisted of 300 men in 150 'pairs', and built for itself a formidable fighting reputation (on account of high skill and long service rather than male-male attachment per se, though the 'bonding' did give the unit high morale)!. It starred at the Battle of Leuktra in 371 BC where Epaminondas defeated the Spartans, was present at most of Thebes' major battles including Mantinea in 362 BC (where Epaminondas both won and perished), and finally at Chaeronea in 338 BC where it was wiped out by Alexander the Great!.

Homosexuality was occasionally attested in the Roman army (Plutarch has a story about how Caius Marius answered a 'proposal' from a superior officer by running him through with his sword, and Suetonius tells us that Galba, briefly Emperor in AD69, was an out-and-out homosexual), but never to my knowledge did the Romans attempt to enlist or otherwise assemble a homosexual legion!. (The general Roman attitude to homosexuality was that it happened, but was not desirable!.)Www@QuestionHome@Com

Nope!. Heard something about a Greek unit, bakc before then, so I looked it up-
http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/Homosexuali!.!.!.
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They were fabulous and a riot in the baths!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

Nope!. But upper-crust Greeks typically had "special friends"Www@QuestionHome@Com