5,000-Year Old 'Gay Caveman' Found By Archaeologists Near Prague

An unusual burial may have outed the world's first known gay caveman, whose bones were discovered outside Prague in a grave that indicates he was homosexual or possibly transgendered.
During the Copper Age 5,000 years ago, men were traditionally buried facing the west, along with weapons and knives. But archaeologists in the Czech Republic say the skeletal remains of the newly discovered caveman were found facing the east, along with household items like water jugs and pots, funeral rites almost always reserved for women in the region during that time.

Kamila Remisova Vesinova was the lead archeologist on the team who made the discovery. She spoke at a press conference Tuesday."From history and ethnology, we know that people from this period took funeral rites very seriously so it is highly unlikely that this positioning was a mistake," Vesinova told the U.K.'s Telegraph . "Far more likely is that he was a man with a different sexual orientation, homosexual or transsexual."