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Achilles is in your alleyway, / He don't want me here, / He does brag. / He's pointing to the sky, / And he's hungry, / Like a man in drag.

Was Achilles really a transvestite? Yes! When the Trojan War was breaking out, Thetis, the ever-protective mother of Achilles, sent her son, dressed in women's clothing, to hide in the court of King Lycomedes. The disguise was not clever enough to fool the wily Odysseus, who successfully recruited Achilles into the Greek army.