Gay-lesbian solidarity would have been someone telling michaelangelo what titties looked like
Okay but consider:
The Catholic Church DESPARATELY trying to explain to him what titties are without it sounding like they knew what a naked woman looked like
Anyone could hire a woman off the street to model, and many artists did so perfectly fine and painted/sculpted anatomically gorgeous women, what I like better is Michelangelo being like UGH I went out looking for models in the red light district again and would you believe not a lady whore to be seen, all I found were these STRAPPING YOUNG MEN ohhh well what can you do cmon boys strip off history is calling