It's actually not the same at all. Rome was extremely tolerant and welcoming towards homosexual activity and I'm actually surprised you think we're the same after 2 millenia. We're not. We got more religious and more prudish. Imagine "gay" (I use that term loosely because Romans didn't see it as gay/straight, that would be ridiculous to them, and it is frankly ridiculous to me as well) graffiti today that was endorsed by the masses. Not gonna happen. Back in Roman times getting penetrated in the ass by another man was considered a manly act and worthy of praise. And if you go back further into Greek era, male-male sex was seen even BETTER than male-female sex (which was an almost serviceable, "just to get pregnant" ritual as opposed to the hedonism of modern Christian-Western era male-female sexuality). Today male-male sexual activity categorizes you into "gay" and all of a sudden you're blasted with labels, and accusations of sinning plus scandals galore. Imagine Donald Trump blasting over Twitter: "There's nothing like the bond between two grown and the sex that makes them stronger." Laughable, right? In the time of the Roman empire, that would have been a normal tweet, the invention of tweets notwithstanding. We are nowhere near the sexual liberation achieved by the Greeks/Romans. We're absolutely nowhere near it one iota. The only thing we have in common with Rome is that we are also an Empire. That's about as far as it goes. Remember, this was the civilization that worshipped Jupiter and nature, not one that worships a martyr who died for our sins. I mean the worldview and mythology is completely perpendicular in nature.