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A British museum has decided to retroactively claim a Roman emperor for the LGBT community, suggesting on the basis of an apparent 3rd century character assassination justifying an actual assassination that Marcus Aurelius Antonius was a "transgender."The North Hertfordshire Museum has conferred.
The captivating tale of the rise and fall of the Severan Dynasty, is a short lived yet shocking story of power, ambition and turmoil that shaped the Roman Empire.