I've at times thought that if the mythical Jesus did indeed live, it is quite possible that he was homosexual.
Not according the Gospel of Philip, which states (in fairly explicit terms) that he was in a long-term, monogamous, and intimate relationship with Mary Magdalene. (Well, monogamous on the christological figure's part, at any rate). That view edges towards literalism though, which I try to avoid, at all costs. That's Dan Brown's take on the Gospel of Philip anyway. Which fact speaks for itself no?
My opinion, WRT these verses from Gospel of Philip, is a more cohesive view: Earlier in the same gospel, Philip talks about how his sect of practicing Christians kissed each other on the mouth, in order to "breathe the holy spirit" into each other, and conceive a "divine spark". Since Philip also mentions the two-gendered (androgynous) version of the gnostic mythos' "aeons", we can probably fairly safely assume (though it is still an assumption) that the people participating in this "holy kiss" ritual would be one man and one woman, since some early Gnostic Christians believed the two halves of the soul, the "earthly" (physical) half, and the "divine" (wisdom/spirit) half were male and female, respectively, and the separation of the two was a result of the Demiurge creating "the prison-house of the world".
The text does bear up my interpretation however, especially with the later joke towards the end, of the christ figure joking with the disciples that if they don't like the way he carries on with the Magdalene, perhaps he should start kissing them.
In the context of the earlier assertion in the same gospel that the two sides of the soul are male and female, and viewed in light of the ritual of the "holy kiss", this is clearly (to me at least) an allegorical parable for the Christians to not follow/worship/idolize men. (I.e., self-professed popes, apostles, and prophets, which were abundant in the Middle East at the time the gospel was written.)
JMO.
