Jesus had a boyfriend, a beloved male friend — The disciple whom Jesus loved is mentioned six times in the Gospel of John:

He is the disciple who, while reclining beside Jesus at the Last Supper, asks Jesus who it is that will betray him, after being requested by Peter to do so

“Near the cross of Jesus stood His mother and her sister, as well as Mary the wife of Clopas and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus saw His mother and the disciple whom He loved standing nearby, He said to His mother, “Woman, here is your son.” Then He said to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” So from that hour, this disciple took her into his home.” John 25–27

When Mary Magdalene discovers the empty tomb, she runs to tell the beloved disciple and Peter. The two men rush to the empty tomb and the beloved disciple is the first to reach it.

In John 21, the last chapter of the Gospel of John, the beloved disciple is one of seven fishermen involved in the miraculous catch of 153 fish and is the first to recognise Jesus on the beach.

Also in the book’s final chapter, after Jesus implies the manner in which Peter will die, Peter sees the beloved disciple following them and asks, “What about him?” Jesus answers, “If I want him to remain until I come, what is that to you?”

In the Gospel’s last chapter, it states that the very book itself is based on the written testimony of the disciple whom Jesus loved.

In the Gnostic text, the Book of Thomas the Contender, Jesus is even quoted as saying, “Woe to you who love intimacy with womankind and polluted intercourse with them.”