Have a Gay Old Time/Oral Tradition

Examples of Have a Gay Old Time in Oral Tradition include:

The Rape of Persephone does not involve sex with an unwilling partner. At the time, "rape" referred to kidnapping or assault. Same with the Rape of the Sabine Women, or The Rape of the Lock, which does not involve keyholes.
- Not necessarily sex with an unwilling partner; the word "rape" often had the sexual connotation of "kidnapping for sex, out of strong desire". Did Hades abduct Persephone just so he could play checkers with her? Similarly, Pope used the term "rape of the lock" to literally mean "theft of a lock of hair", but "rape" had meant "unwilling sex" for 300 years at that point, and the hair-stealing is explicitly a sex/love thing.
- A similar wordplay is present in ancient Hebrew, so there is some argument about the exact meaning of Dinah's Rape.
  - Apparently she ended up having a baby. Case solved.
In order to impregnate Danae, Zeus took the form of a "shower of gold". In America, the phrase "golden shower" refers to a sex act involving urination.
- The Thunder god certainly got around. Nowhere in the "Rape of Ganymede" does it claim that the young man was ever unhappy with the arrangement. In fact, in "payment" his father got a herd of divine horses, and Ganymede eternal youth, a soft make-work government job ("Cupbearer"), and retirement as a constellation. Oh, and Zeus might have been an eagle at the time.
The father of the Titans was named Uranus (the planet was named after him). Sometimes averted by calling him "Ouranos" or something similar.
The fable of the little Dutch boy who saved Holland by "sticking his finger in the dyke". "Dyke" is, of course, one of many slang terms for a lesbian (particularly used in the phrase "bull dyke" to describe a lesbian woman who looks like a man). And the less said about the "sticking his finger" part, the better...