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Zeno wrote a work called The Republic that was meant to refute Plato's. Fragments of this exist, and from the basis about what we know of Zeno's stoic philosophy.

Interestingly, they did not disagree on homosexuality. Zeno and the stoics believed in free love, and didn't take issue with adultery. The platonists and Seneca etc strongly condemned it as degenerate for society. I'll prove the platonists (the defining ethos of ancient Greece) in fact thought gay male love was superior.

Plato's Symposium has Aristophanes tell a tale of human origins. The Greeks believed humans began as 2 four legged creatures split by Zeus for fear of their strength. As a result, each half sought the other. This was the idea of "soul mates" that is Platonic. Section 191c however is completely explicit about why and how the two male and two female halves might seek one another. I'll quote the Greek and translate:

ὥσπερ οἱ τέτ- τιγες—μετέθηκέ τε οὖν οὕτω αὐτῶν εἰς τὸ πρόσθεν καὶ διὰ τούτων τὴν γένεσιν ἐν ἀλλήλοις ἐποίησεν, διὰ τοῦ ἄρρενος ἐν τῷ θήλει, τῶνδε ἕνεκα, ἵνα ἐν τῇ συμπλοκῇ ἅμα μὲν εἰ ἀνὴρ γυναικὶ ἐντύχοι, γεννῷεν καὶ γίγνοιτο τὸ γένος, ἅμα δ᾽ εἰ καὶ ἄρρην ἄρρενι, πλησμονὴ γοῦν γίγνοιτο τῆς συνουσίας καὶ διαπαύοιντο καὶ ἐπὶ τὰ ἔργα τρέποιντο καὶ τοῦ ἄλλου βίου ἐπιμελοῖντο.

Right after Plato is describing the "parts which propagate the species" aka genitals - they were "moved to the front" in 191b right before this section, which begins 191c:

to be used for procreation—in the female genital by the male; so that if in their embrace a man should come upon a woman there be conception and continuation of humankind; and also, if male met with male they might have satiety of their union and a respite, and so might turn to their labor and their interest to ordinary life. Thus anciently is mutual love ingrained

So there's explicit endorsement of homosexuality number one. But the clincher comes in 191e and 192a. Plato is describing what happens when various combinations (male male, male female, female female) occur. He describes the male/male type union as:

Men who are sections of the male pursue the masculine, and so long as their youth lasts they show themselves to be of the male part by making friends with men and delighting [192a] to lie with them and to be held in men's sexual embraces; these are the finest boys, for they have the most manly nature. Some say they are shameless, but falsely: for their behavior is due not to shamelessness but to daring, manliness, and virility, since they are quick to welcome their own kind. Certain evidence of this is the fact that when reaching maturity these alone prove in a public career to be men.

It doesn't get any clearer than that. Class dismissed faggot. Go read books before making up nonsense based on your feelings. Nice Wikipedia sourcing by the way. Try coming up with your own ideas.