The Bible's view of homosexuality thus appears to be unequivocally negative. Little wonder that there are no homosexual biblical characters--at least none who are "out." (On the apparent exception of the men of Sodom and Gibeah, see sodomy.) It has been long conjectured that David and King Saul's son Jonathan were more than good buddies. We are told that there was a "covenant" between them (1 Sam. 20:8), that Jonathan "delighted much in David" (19:2), that each loved the other "as he loved his own soul" (2 Sam. 18:1, 20:17), and that during their last meeting "they kissed one another, and wept one with the other" (20:41). On the death of his "brother" Jonathan, David laments, "Very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women" (2 Sam. 1:26). (Since David certainly did not pass up loving women, any sexual relationship with Jonathan would mean that David was bisexual. He may have married Michal for power, Abigail perhaps for her wealth, and as an old man he was impotent with Abishag, but the attraction of Bathsheba was hormonal.)
The Rev. John Williams, author of Just As I Am: A Practical Guide to Being Out, Proud, and Christian, is convinced that Jesus Christ was gay. The evidence Williams cites includes the fact that Jesus had no wife (highly unusual for a rabbi of his time), and had in his company the so-called beloved disciple, an unidentified follower in the Gospel of John whom "Jesus loved" and who "was leaning on Jesus' bosom" at the last supper. The sexual orientation of the Apostle Paul, a celibate who attacks homosexuality but suffers from some "thorn in the flesh" (2 Cor. 12:7), has also been a subject of speculation.
[See http://www.hobrad.com/and.htm Bible and Sex for a further discussion. I should mention that the author concludes that the Bible forbids homosexual sex. I cannot find bona fide scholar who says the Bible condemns same-sex love.] [Submitted from,Wei Lee, Dictionary of Gay Slang]