You're not playing any of these games, right, anon?

As I've said, it's not even 100 % agreed that the Sacred Band existed nowadays. Especially in those times, a full historical consciousness was not developed among even the Greek intelligentsia, so having myth here and there was fine- and in this case, it's clearly in the tradition of Patroclus and Achilles, which is a religiously important pair, and whether or not they were truly homosexual, they were used as a pederastic role-model. It's also likely that texts which talk about its erotic nature, and those which do not mention it, derive from different sources. But it's hardly unorthodox to claim it did exist, and was homosexual. What is unorthodox, and a lie, is to say that some "gay dude from the 70s" is the first one to come up with the idea. There is no doubt that there were plenty of stories about eros in military valor, so even if we eliminate the Sacred Band, this is not something we can discard.