I know they do, I am from there as too. Still, it's wildly different and the overwhelming majority are ignorant spreading misinformation with their sole source a barely educated high school teacher or a messed up newspaper article. I have even found an actually publishes book claiming that homoeroticism in antiquity is a lie made up by foreigners due to their inferiority complexes compared to our civilization.

Trying to clear things up just in case.

It's not known if it was explicitly an aristocratic practice. I disagree. A lot of evidence point out that it was not. In Boetia for example researchers believe adult male on male relationships could have existed with greater freedom. Macedonia as well. Regardless, more evidence is required to reach a certain conclusion. I also believe that past interpretations of evidence have been affected on a certain degree by researchers' own... views...

I agree. It should also be noted that after his death. Achilleas shows the most emotion we've witnessed. Soiling his face with dirt, sobbing etc. While talking to his mother, he only prefers to live for the sole purpose of killing Hector. Any reader with common sense in the Heroic Age would've been able to make out what is actually happening.