The Metamorphoses - Gay Characters / Pro-Homosexuality

I have to admit The Metamorphoses kind of hit me by surprise as to what the entire book was going to be based on.

I noticed it actually suggested that being Gay actually isn't such a bad idea at all and actually includes several characters that are gay such as Hermaphroditus:

In Greek mythology, Hermaphroditus or Hermaphroditos ⁱ/hərˌmæf.rəˈdaɪ.təs/ (Ancient Greek: Ἑρμαφρόδιτος) was the child ofAphrodite and Hermes. He was a minor deity of bisexuality and effeminacy. According to Ovid, born a remarkably handsome boy, he was transformed into an androgynous being by union with the water nymph Salmacis.^[1] His name is the basis for the wordhermaphrodite.