Dear Snopes,
Is it true that Comet Ping Pong’s owner, James Alefantis, who is ranked by GQ magazine as one of the most important people in Washington DC (a remarkable achievement for a pizza joint owner) and who was at the heart of the “fake news” pizzagate scandal, uses an image of a statue of Antinous, the deified boy lover of Emperor Hadrian, as his Instagram profile icon (avatar)?
Is it also reasonable to suggest that sculptural depictions of Antinous “remain without doubt one of the most elevated and ideal monuments to pederastic love [i.e. sexual relations between a man and a young boy] of the whole ancient world”, (as is suggested by scholar Royston Lambert in his book, Beloved and God: The Story of Hadrian and Antinous)?
DEAR SNOPES 