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Homosexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction, or sexual behavior between people of the same sex or gender. It also denotes identity based on...

non-human animal species exhibit behavior that can be interpreted as homosexual or bisexual, often referred to as same-sex sexual behavior (SSSB) by scientists...

one gender. Patterns are generally categorized under heterosexuality, homosexuality, and bisexuality, while asexuality (experiencing no sexual attraction...

Gay is a term that primarily refers to a homosexual person or the trait of being homosexual. The term originally meant "carefree", "cheerful', or "bright...

Homophobia encompasses a range of negative attitudes and feelings toward homosexuality or people who identify or are perceived as being lesbian, gay or bisexual...

A lesbian is a homosexual woman or girl. The word is also used as an adjective for women in relation to their experiences, regardless of their sexual orientation;...

"Homosexual panic" is a term coined by American psychiatrist Edward J. Kempf in 1920 for a condition of "panic due to the pressure of uncontrollable perverse...

resulting from greater reproductive success, evolutionary explanations for homosexuality rely upon other mechanisms of evolution such as kin selection and inclusive...

Before 1933, male homosexual acts were illegal in Germany under Paragraph 175 of the German Criminal Code. The law was not consistently enforced, however...

Sodom and Gomorrah in the Book of Genesis, was commonly restricted to homosexual anal sex. Sodomy laws in many countries criminalized the behavior. In...

Gay men are male homosexuals. Historic terminology for gay men has included inverts and uranians. Gay men continue to face significant discrimination...

Terms used to describe homosexuality have gone through many changes since the emergence of the first terms in the mid-19th century. In English, some terms...

self-reported identification as homosexual, heterosexual or bisexual. Overall, fewer research subjects identify as homosexual or bisexual, than report having...

The Kinsey scale, also called the Heterosexual–Homosexual Rating Scale, is used in research to describe a person's sexual orientation based on one's experience...

Muslims. While colloquial and de facto official acceptance of at least some homosexual and gender variant behaviors were commonplace in pre-modern periods, later...

Homosexual is the fifth studio album by Australian singer-songwriter Darren Hayes. It was released on 7 October 2022 and is Hayes' third studio album to...

ancient times. Western scholars have identified these as evidence of homosexuality in Japan. Though these relations had existed in Japan for millennia...

the homosexual community a sense of worth to the individual homosexual", which could only be achieved through campaigns openly led by homosexuals themselves...

activity, it can refer to homosexual pair-bonding, homosexual parenting and homosexual acts of affection. Engaging in homosexual behavior may allow species...

area. Historically, anal sex has been popularly associated with male homosexuality. Many MSM, however, do not engage in anal sex. Among men who have anal...

Latent homosexuality is an erotic attraction toward members of the same sex that is not consciously experienced or expressed in overt action. This may...

bisexuality originated in early sexology as a descriptor for those with both homosexual and heterosexual attraction and was coined in the 19th century in German...

the legal recognition of same-sex marriage to the death penalty for homosexuality. Notably, as of January 2025[update], 38 countries recognize same-sex...

doi:10.1177/1363460713511105. Kane, Melinda D. (2015). "Decriminalizing Homosexuality: Gaining Rights through Sodomy Law Reform". The Ashgate Research Companion...

The relationship between the Catholic Church and homosexuality is complex and often contentious, involving various conflicting views between the Roman...

and relationships. Traditionally understood as prohibitions against homosexuality, these texts have played a central role in shaping Jewish and Christian...

The first homosexual movement thrived in Germany from the late nineteenth century until 1933. The movement began in Germany because of a confluence of...

debated the translation and modern relevance of New Testament texts on homosexuality. Three distinct passages – Romans 1:26–27, 1 Corinthians 6:9–10, and...

Homosexuality in India has been documented throughout the history of the Indian subcontinent, and legal rights for homosexual individuals continue to...

claims such as that homosexuality is unnatural and abnormal, that the recognition of same-sex unions will promote homosexuality in society, and that...

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rights for LGBTQ people. Specific goals include the decriminalization of homosexuality, legal recognition of same-sex relationships, protections against discrimination...

and the Homosexual (CRH) was a San Francisco, California, United States–based organization founded in 1964 for the purpose of joining homosexual activists...

The subject of homosexuality and Judaism dates back to the Torah. The book of Vayikra (Leviticus) is traditionally regarded as classifying sexual intercourse...

bisexuality and homosexuality, heterosexuality is one of the three main categories of sexual orientation within the heterosexual–homosexual continuum. Across...

Homosexuality has been the subject of much debate within Christianity. Christianity developed during the 1st century AD as a Jewish Christian sect and...

Section 28, which had prohibited local authorities from "promoting" homosexuality was repealed in England and Wales in 2003, while the same legislation...

Homosexual seduction is the pseudoscientific conspiracy theory which suggests homosexuality is spread through intergenerational sex, and that older homosexuals...

contribute to police harassment, stigmatization, and violence against homosexual and bisexual people. Other effects include exacerbation of the HIV epidemic...

which there is documented evidence of homosexual behavior. These animals have been observed practicing homosexual courtship, sexual behavior, affection...

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Homosexual Desire (French: Le désir homosexuel) is a 1972 book by French intellectual Guy Hocquenghem. The book is polemical and focuses on the desire...

Societal attitudes toward homosexuality vary greatly across different cultures and historical periods, as do attitudes toward sexual desire, activity...

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) teaches that homosexual sexual activity is sinful under its law of chastity and that God does...

tell" (DADT) was the official United States policy on military service of homosexual people for a period of over 17 years, starting in the mid-1990s. Instituted...

has extensively studied homosexuality as a human sexual orientation. The American Psychiatric Association listed homosexuality in the DSM-I in 1952 as...

against LGBTQ people, such as the death penalty for people engaging in homosexual practices. Adherence to anti-gay religious beliefs and communities is...

sexologist Ray Blanchard which classifies transgender women into two groups: "homosexual transsexuals" who are attracted exclusively to men and are feminine in...

For these animals, there is documented evidence of homosexual behavior of one or more of the following kinds: sex, courtship, affection, pair bonding,...

individual, or bisexuality. The terms offer an alternative to a gender binary homosexual and heterosexual conceptualization of sexuality. The terms are used for...

"Gay agenda" or "homosexual agenda" is a pejorative term for the normalization of non-heterosexual sexual orientations. The term has been used to criticize...

Homosexuality in football may refer to: Homosexuality and bisexuality in American football Homosexuality in association football Homosexuality in Australian...

The Church and the Homosexual is a 1976 book by theologian John J. McNeill. The book is notable in the field of moral theology in that it was among the...

prostitution has an extensive history, including regulation through homosexuality, conceptual developments on sexuality, and the HIV/AIDS epidemic impact...

Homosexuality has been documented in China since ancient times. According to one study by Bret Hinsch, for some time after the fall of the Han dynasty...

founder L. Ron Hubbard called homosexuality a dangerous perversion. The Church of Scientology's perspectives on homosexuality are based on the writings of...

This is a list of Christian denominational positions on homosexuality. The issue of homosexuality and Christianity is a subject of ongoing theological debate...

than the aristocracy, the French Revolution ended the criminalization of homosexual practices. However, under the Napoleonic Empires, repression took new...

Acquired homosexuality is the pseudoscientific idea that homosexuality can be spread, either through sexual seduction or recruitment by homosexuals, or through...

Homosexuality in ancient Rome is a subject of research and scholarly debate. Conceptions of homosexuality in ancient Rome differed from the contemporary...

Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-8264-7343-1. Stanley, Julia P. (1970). "Homosexual Slang". American Speech. 45 (1/2): 45–59. doi:10.2307/455061. ISSN 0003-1283...

Orders states that homosexual men should not be ordained at all. In 2005, the Church clarified that men with "deeply rooted homosexual tendencies" could...

Homosexuality in Indonesia is generally considered a taboo subject by both Indonesian civil society and the government. Public discussion of homosexuality...

judging that the European Commission of Human Rights was "a conspiracy of homosexuals and communists against Hellenic values". This discourse, promoted by...

male has from the same mother, the greater probability he will have a homosexual orientation. It was identified by Ray Blanchard and Anthony Bogaert in...

plot lines, and/or themes portraying male homosexual behavior. Because the social acceptance of homosexuality has varied in many world cultures throughout...

Capital punishment as a criminal punishment for homosexuality has been implemented by a number of countries in their history. It is a legal punishment...

The Report of the Departmental Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution (better known as the Wolfenden report, after Sir John Wolfenden, the chairman...

The Homosexuals are an English punk/post-punk band. The band have been described as "punk visionaries". The Rejects were formed in the bar of Goldsmiths...

The Homosexual Law Reform Society was an organisation in the 20th century that campaigned in the United Kingdom for changes to the set of laws which criminalised...

Canterbury arrived in Britain, the citizens might have been able to practice homosexuality through the Celtic, Roman and Anglo Saxon periods, though evidence is...

authors argue that homosexuality is not necessarily related to pathology and divide homosexuals into five types. Together with Homosexuality: An Annotated...

sexuality. The Encyclopedia of Homosexuality, volume two, is unequivocal on Marx's and Engels' views of homosexuality, stating: "Marx and Engels were...

Islamic Homosexualities: Culture, History, and Literature is a collection of essays edited by Stephen O. Murray and Will Roscoe and published in 1997...

his lifetime, as well as evidence of his antipathy to homosexuality, and no evidence of homosexual encounters. His name has been linked to a number of possible...

Homosexual behavior in sheep is common and well documented in domestic sheep (Ovis aries) and at least four species of wild sheep (members of the genus...

are homosexual individuals within both sexes. The psychologist Chris McManus and a team of researchers weighed in on the relationship to homosexuality and...

The gay panic defense or homosexual advance defense is a victim blaming strategy of legal defense, where a heterosexual individual charged with a violent...

does not. Historically, same-sex relationships have been referred to as homosexual relationships, gay relationships, or lesbian relationships. This led to...

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teachings about homosexuality and the Sikh holy scripture, the Guru Granth Sahib, does not explicitly mention heterosexuality, homosexuality or bisexuality...

diary, which by contemporary terms would have designated him a closeted homosexual man. D. Travers Scott claims that the phrase "coming out of the closet"...

The Frente de Liberación Homosexual (Homosexual Liberation Front, sometimes abbreviated FLH) was a gay rights organization in Argentina. Formed at a meeting...

The Campaign for Homosexual Equality (CHE) was a membership organisation in the United Kingdom with a stated aim from 1969 to promote legal and social...

the book The World of Homosexuals (1977), which is considered the first study of homosexuality in India. She saw homosexuality in a positive light and...

For these birds, there is documented evidence of homosexual behavior in one or more of the following kinds: sex, courtship, affection, pair bonding, or...

Homosexuality has been publicly discussed by top leaders in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS church)—Mormonism's largest denomination—since...

Hindu views of homosexuality and LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) issues more generally are diverse, and different Hindu groups have distinct...

(1922 to 1991), criminalisation of homosexual relations shifted. After the October Revolution of 1917, homosexuality was decriminalised in Soviet Russia...

Catholic-Protestant Europe had the largest influence on Russian attitude towards homosexuality. Russian LGBT history was influenced by the ambivalent attitude of the...

60) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It legalised homosexual acts in England and Wales, on the condition that they were consensual...

from the West on this list may be due to societal attitudes toward homosexuality. The Pew Research Center's 2013 Global Attitudes Survey found that there...

The Homosexual Integration and Liberation Movement (Spanish: Movimiento de Integración y Liberación Homosexual, or Movilh) is a Chilean human rights advocacy...

The Anti-Homosexuality Act, 2023 is an act of the Parliament of Uganda that restricts freedom of speech on LGBTQ topics and introduces harsher penalties...

Mennonite perspectives on homosexuality range from complete acceptance to the prohibition of homosexual behavior among its community members as it is...

The Frente de Liberación Homosexual (Spanish: Homosexual Liberation Front or FLH), was the first public organization for gay liberation in Mexico. It...

The Frankfurt Homosexual Trials were a series of criminal trials in Frankfurt that took place in 1950 and 1951. Criminal proceedings were initiated against...

"ludicrous" for thinking that an aerosol could possibly change people into homosexuals. No well-controlled scientific studies have ever been published suggesting...

Americans for Truth about Homosexuality (AFTAH) is an organization which describes its mission as "exposing the homosexual activist agenda". AFTAH rejects...

Associated Press article on sprinter Tyson Gay with "homosexual", thus rendering his name "Tyson Homosexual". This same function had previously changed the...

violence may be enacted by the state, as in laws prescribing punishment for homosexual acts, or by individuals. It may be psychological or physical and motivated...

Homosexuality is not classified as a mental disorder in the current Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM); it was removed in the...

adults, in this case with respect to homosexual sodomy, though the law did not differentiate between homosexual and heterosexual sodomy. It was overturned...

imprisonment in Iraq, Oman, Syria and the Gaza Strip. In Kuwait, only male homosexuality is illegal. In Egypt, while no specific law criminalizing same-sex sexual...

the influence of Christianity. Although the assembly never discussed homosexuality, it has been legal in France ever since. Previously it could be punished...

powers at the time. The Soviet Union repressed homosexuality. Even during the period when homosexuality was officially legal after the abolition of the...

Homosexuality is defined as a sexual orientation characterized by a romantic attraction, sexual attraction, or sexual behavior exclusively between people...

of the Islamic State (ISIS), which mandates capital punishment for homosexuality within its territory, in Iraq, Syria, and Libya. Law enforcement in...

"degenerate", and "homosexual". None of the terms, whether inside or outside of the subculture, equated to the general concept of a homosexual identity, which...

Homosexual teen fiction may refer to: Gay teen fiction Lesbian teen fiction This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Homosexual...

Germanic tribes punishing homosexuality by drowning the offender in a bog.) There was no specific mention of homosexuality in Anglo-Saxon law (which was...

"The Homosexuals" is a 1967 episode of the documentary television series CBS Reports. The hour-long broadcast featured a discussion of a number of topics...

corresponds to homosexuality. Alfred Kinsey and his colleagues were the main advocates in separating the difference between the role of a "homosexual" and the...

the US to become homosexual, and that the US government was waging a "chemical warfare operation" to increase rates of homosexuality and decrease birth...

same-sex sexual acts, desires, and relationships. The passages about homosexual individuals and sexual relations in the Hebrew Bible are found primarily...

estimate of 10% for homosexuality in the general population. Instead of three categories (heterosexual, bisexual and homosexual), a seven-point Kinsey...

used several morality provisions for the de facto criminalization of homosexual conduct. Any behavior, or the expression of any idea that is deemed to...

the Presbyterian branch of Protestant Christianity, attitudes toward homosexuality vary widely depending on geographic region and individual denomination...

of the Male Overt Homosexual" in which she administered several psychological tests to groups of self-identified male homosexuals and heterosexuals and...

masturbation); true homosexuality (consensual sex between inmates who were already homosexual before entering prison); situational homosexuality (consensual sex...

scandal arose from a 1919 investigation by the United States Navy into homosexual acts by Navy personnel and civilians in Newport, Rhode Island. The investigation...

significant minorities of homosexual men and varying degrees of bisexual men. Homosexual males are more common than homosexual females. Research indicates...

Homosexuality in Sri Lanka has been documented since ancient times. Since the 17th century, homosexual intercourse has de jure prohibited through the Penal...

homicide in Giarre, Italy, that shocked Italy and helped spur the Italian homosexual rights movement. On 31 October 1980, the decomposed bodies of two young...

hermaphrodites") would have graph scores of around 5 for both; and typical homosexuals (which he called "Urnings") would have scores of A:8-10 / B:1-3. Hirschfeld...

Homosexuality in ancient Egypt is a disputed subject within Egyptology. Historians and egyptologists alike debate what kinds of views the ancient Egyptians'...

The document On the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons, also known by its opening words in Latin (Homosexualitatis problema) or as the "Halloween Letter"...

Pornographic actor James Deen denies that double penetration is inherently "homosexual activity", even if two penises are in the same orifice, believing that...

estimated fifty million Africans who are non-heterosexual. As of June 2026, homosexuality is outlawed in 33 of the 54 African states recognised by the United...

Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, viewed homosexuality, like all forms of sexuality, as being caused by a combination of biological, social...

Catholic Church". Some homosexual Christians choose to be celibate following their denomination's teachings on homosexuality. In 2014, the American Association...

decriminalised private homosexual acts between consenting adults in Scotland. Subject to the provisions of this section, a homosexual act in private shall...

heterosexual in behavior and fantasies before marriage, but grow toward a more homosexual orientation during marriage. A 2008 study on men who have sex with men...

lavender" was period slang for an effeminate man and later connoted homosexuality. Sandburg did not elaborate on this comment. Historian and psychoanalyst...

Scottish Minorities Group (SMG) in 1969, and later known as the Scottish Homosexual Rights Group (SHRG), it was the country's first LGBT rights organisation...

and situational sexual behaviour) or non-reproductively motivated (e.g. homosexual sexual behaviour, bisexual sexual behaviour, cross-species sex, sexual...

legislative report Homosexuality and Citizenship in Florida contains an extensive appendix documenting and defining the homosexual slang in the United...

A 2013 Pew Research poll found that 79% of Australians agreed that homosexuality should be accepted by society, making it the fifth-most supportive country...

The Homosexual Law Reform Act 1986 is a New Zealand Act of Parliament that broadly legalised consensual sexual practices between men as well as consensual...

rarely, faggotism or faggotness) are pejoratively used to refer to homosexuality. The first recorded use of faggot as a pejorative term against gay men...

The Encyclopedia of Homosexuality is an encyclopedic book about homosexuality edited by Wayne R. Dynes. It was published by Garland Publishing in New...

Madonna at the 24th GLAAD Media Awards in 2013, dressed as a Cub Scout in protest of the ban on homosexual Scouts and Scout leaders....

While anal sex is commonly associated with male homosexuality, research shows that not all homosexual men engage in anal sex and that it is not uncommon...

19th-century Britain, a molly house or molly-house was a meeting place for homosexual men. The meeting places were generally taverns, public houses, coffeehouses...

was a pioneer of social research into homosexuality in the 1950s and 1960s, and a campaigner for the Homosexual Law Reform Society at a time before the...

that the change was to distance the school's athletic program from homosexuality. When this drew criticism, Yoshida then said the change was merely to...

Criteria for the Discernment of Vocations with Regard to Persons with Homosexual Tendencies in View of Their Admission to the Seminary and to Holy Orders...

used by British obituary writers as litotes for the deceased having been homosexual. Its use has been dated to the second half of the 20th century. As well...

invoked to bless homosexual unions. Due to his numerous same-sex relationships, in modern times he's considered a patron of homosexual love. Apollo was...

Homosexuality and Citizenship in Florida, also known as the Purple Pamphlet, was an anti-homosexual propaganda pamphlet published in January 1964 by the...

Juliet; Rissel, Chris; Simpson, Judy (2014-11-01). "Homosexual experience and recent homosexual encounters: the Second Australian Study of Health and...

Pentecostal viewpoints concerning homosexuality are varied worldwide, since there is no one organization that represents all Pentecostals. However, most...

The Spanish Movement for Homosexual Liberation (Movimiento Español de Liberación Homosexual) was the first organization defending gay rights in Spain,...

resulted from the public disclosure of Nazi politician Ernst Röhm's homosexuality by anti-Nazis in 1931 and 1932. Röhm was an early member of the Nazi...

"twincest" is a subclass of sibling incest and includes both heterosexual and homosexual relationships. Incest was commonplace in Southeast Asian creation myths...

later came to be understood separately as cross-dressing, aspects of homosexuality, eonism, transsexuality, and transgender identity, but was not limited...

refrain from entering or pursuing same-sex relationships, to eliminate homosexual desires and to develop heterosexual desires, or to enter into a heterosexual...

newspaper, concerning his booking a venue for a meeting of the Campaign for Homosexual Equality. Moving to London in the early 1970s, Sanderson worked as a disability...

self-defeating behaviors, and homosexuality. He has been described as the most important psychoanalytic theorist of homosexuality in the 1950s. Edmund Bergler...

describes the sexual relations of homosexual males, including men with boys. Ellis wrote the first objective study of homosexuality (the term was coined by Karl-Maria...

establishment of a departmental inquiry into homosexuality. He argued that: By attaching so fearful a stigma to homosexuality as such, you put a very large number...

Epigenetic theories of homosexuality concern the studies of changes in gene expression or cellular phenotype caused by mechanisms other than changes in...

exclusive to pansexuality and can also be found in broad definitions of homosexuality, bisexuality and the asexual spectrum. The prefix pan- comes from the...

Male Homosexual in Literature (2 editions, the second being expanded). The Australian gay poet Paul Knobel's CD-ROM 'An Encyclopedia of Male Homosexual Poetry...

The Lavender Scare was a moral panic about homosexual people in the United States government which led to their mass dismissal from government service...

sexual orientation or situational sexual behavior characterized by minimal homosexual attraction in an otherwise primarily heterosexual orientation, which may...

prison, heterosexual-identified men who have sex with men view their homosexual acts as being "situation specific" and may not consider themselves bisexual...

encompasses all sexualities that are not exclusively heterosexual or homosexual. It is also referred to as multiple-gender attraction (MGA). Plurisexual...

In LGBTQ slang, a "gold star lesbian" is a lesbian who has never had sex with a man, and a "gold star gay" is a gay man who has never had sex with a woman...

7 mujeres, 1 homosexual y Carlos ("7 women, 1 homosexual and Carlos") is a Mexican comedy movie filmed in Tijuana and released in 2004. The film was written...

Homosexuality, as a phenomenon and as a behavior, has existed throughout all eras in human societies. Reliable data as to the size of the gay and lesbian...

overwhelmingly focused on male homosexuality and rarely mention lesbianism or bisexuality. Current teachings and policies leave homosexual members with the option...

scholars, early Buddhism appears to have placed no special stigma on homosexual relations, since the subject was not mentioned. Historically, Buddhist...

The Warsaw Homosexual Movement (Polish: Warszawski Ruch Homoseksualny; WRH) was an independent group of gays and lesbians which existed in Warsaw between...

notable for being the earliest known adult film to incorporate bisexual and homosexual intercourse. The film is based on the opera Madama Butterfly by Giacomo...

comparable way to homosexuals, they are nonetheless discriminated against. "Niger military junta introduces new penal code criminalizing homosexuality with 5-10...

spell in Coptic (written in a Hermopolitan dialect) regarding male homosexuality. It is held and preserved at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England...

propaganda) is propaganda based on homonegativity and homophobia towards homosexual and sometimes other non-heterosexual people. Such propaganda supports...

held controversial views regarding homosexuality and gender roles. Although Rand personally viewed homosexuality negatively, considering it immoral and...

Abuse of Research into Homosexuality is a 1996 book by neuroscientist Simon LeVay on the scientific explanations for homosexuality. Boellstorff, Tom; Cohen...

more specific identities of sexual attraction, such as heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, or pansexual, among others. Allosexual identity does not imply...

has provoked controversy and criticism for his public opposition to homosexuality. Card, who is a great-great-grandson of Brigham Young, was born in Richland...

career on homosexuality, which he believed could be altered. He helped found the National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) in...

series of courts-martial and five civil trials regarding accusations of homosexual conduct, and accompanying libel trials, among prominent members of German...

Catholic Church launched a campaign against homosexual activity. Between the years 1250 and 1300, homosexual activity was criminalized in most of Europe...

Christian leaders have written about male homosexual activities since the first decades of Christianity; female homosexual behavior was almost entirely ignored...

an American writer. He is best known for his debut memoir, High-Risk Homosexual (2022), which received a Lambda Literary Award and American Book Award...

Ouranía)) is a historical term for homosexual men. The word was also used as an adjective in association with male homosexuality or inter-male attraction regardless...

alleging that homosexuals were numerous and prominent as a group in the Nazi Party or the identification of Nazism with homosexuality more generally...

Lutheran viewpoints concerning homosexuality are diverse because there is no one worldwide body which represents all Lutherans. The Lutheran World Federation...

for Homosexual Equality (TORCHE) was a British LGBT conservative organization. In 1975, it was founded as the Conservative Group for Homosexual Equality...

was widely reported in Germany and spurred discussion of homosexuality, leading to the homosexual emancipation movement in Germany, the first modern gay...

Methodist viewpoints concerning homosexuality are diverse because there is no one denomination which represents all Methodists. The World Methodist Council...

Humphreys, based on his 1968 Ph.D. dissertation "Tearoom Trade: A Study of Homosexual Encounters in Public Places". The study is an analysis of men who participate...

on passive smoking, but he is best known today for his claims about homosexuality. After a successful 1982 campaign against a gay rights proposal in Lincoln...

known for his study Homosexuality: A Psychoanalytic Study of Male Homosexuals (1962), in which Bieber took the position that homosexuality is an acquired trait...

each other "in friendship and physical desire." This phrase referred to homosexual advances. It is unknown if the corporal punishment Shenoute prescribed...

one of the founders of the Italian homosexual movement and one of the leading theoreticians in Italian homosexual activism. He is best known for his essay...

The study of homosexuality in Mexico can be divided into three separate periods, coinciding with the three main periods of Mexican history: pre-Columbian...

national law criminalizing homosexuality. Following the death of Francisco Franco in 1975, the societal attitude towards homosexuals was repressive. The transition...

the law. The law had always been controversial and inspired the first homosexual movement, which called for its repeal. The statute drew legal influence...

The Homosexual Offences (Northern Ireland) Order 1982 (SI 1982/1536 (N.I. 19)), is an order in Council which decriminalised homosexual acts between two...

In Seventh-day Adventism, homosexual behaviour is considered a violation of God's commands, and as such, openly homosexual behaviour is subject to church...

Lord Byron, and which celebrates homosexual love, makes a plea for tolerance. At the time of its writing, homosexuality and sodomy were capital crimes in...

on February 4, 1921. It was the first express prohibition of homosexuality or homosexual conduct in the armed forces of the United States. The several...

Positive Alternatives to Homosexuality) which offers discredited conversion therapy practices purporting to change a person from homosexual to heterosexual. In...

term jījiān (雞姦) for homosexual anal intercourse. In 1740, an anti-homosexual decree was promulgated, defining voluntary homosexual intercourse between...

(died 1477) was recorded as the first woman to be executed for female homosexuality. She was drowned in the Rhine in Speyer. Originally from Nuremberg,...

outside of matrimony, Baháʼí practices exclude premarital, extramarital, or homosexual intimacy. Baháʼí institutions have taken no position on the sexual practices...

countries, such as Japan (21%) or Spain (7%). Homosexuality remains quite taboo in South Korean society. Homosexuality is not specifically mentioned in either...

(11 September 1861 – 18 October 1915) was a German author, soldier and homosexual activist. Franz Vollrath Carl Wilhelm Joseph von Bülow was born on 11...

of publications including homosexual publications, it remains primarily a heterosexual term, as terms indicating homosexuality entered Japan as foreign...

Homosexuality in basketball has historically been a sensitive topic, both in professional leagues and at the college level. It has historically been treated...

For example, the criminalization of homosexuality may be maintained in order to express disapproval of homosexuality, even if it is not regularly enforced...

ticket became the discharge of choice for commanders seeking to remove homosexual service members from the ranks. They were also issued disproportionately...

book Seduction of the Innocent that "Batman stories are psychologically homosexual". Several characters in the Modern Age Batman comic books are expressly...

submit to "curing" their homosexuality because the SADF considered homosexuality to be subversive, and those who were homosexual were subject to punishment...

agree that Prussian King Frederick the Great (1712–1786) was primarily homosexual. However, the nature of his actual relationships remains a source of speculation...

evidence that homosexuality was socially accepted among Indigenous peoples. According to the researcher Abelardo Romero, homosexuality "had spread for...

action by the speaker had no intentional homosexual implications, to "rid [oneself] of a possible homosexual double-entendre". The phrase was originated...

title is taken from a Hiberno-English pronunciation of queer (without the homosexual connotation). The play is set in Mountjoy Prison, Dublin. The anti-hero...

who documented lesbian life in East Germany. She was a member of the Homosexual Interest Group Berlin, and her home in East Berlin became known as a safe...

every May for the anniversary of Russia's 1993 decriminalization of homosexuality. Some pride events include Pride parades and marches, rallies, commemorations...

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discuss the "problem" of homosexuality with a panel of "experts" on the subject, none of whom were identified as homosexual. These included such programs...

should "not intentionally promote homosexuality or publish material with the intention of promoting homosexuality" or "promote the teaching in any maintained...

assumption that homosexuality per se is a mental disorder, or based upon a prior assumption that the patient should change his/her homosexual orientation"...

and/or cissexism by revealing that a prominent or respected individual is homosexual and/or transgender. Historical examples of outing include the Krupp affair...

dictionary. Gay is a term that now primarily refers to a homosexual person or the trait of being homosexual. The term was originally used to mean "carefree",...

Berlin-Charlottenburg. His Committee carried out "the first advocacy for homosexual and transgender rights". Hirschfeld is regarded as one of the most influential...

control of the city. Openly had sexual relationships with other men, with homosexuality being very common in Cempoala. King James VI and I (1566–1625) – King...

the 1960s, but came into its own in the 1980s. However, until then, homosexuality had rarely been addressed in literary works, except as something ridiculous...

covered by the Official Secrets Act. In 1952, Turing was prosecuted for homosexual acts. He accepted hormone treatment, a procedure commonly referred to...

claims that Mateen was homosexual or frequented gay bars. The FBI investigation found the witnesses claiming Mateen's homosexuality were mistaken or refused...

homosexuality had been illegal under § 175 regardless of age since 1872. Female homosexuality was not prosecuted. In West Germany, male homosexuality...

portrayed many themes that were taboo at the time of its release, including homosexuality, bisexuality, interracial couples, and extramarital affairs. Baldwin...

people, including LGBTQ children, and denounced laws criminalising homosexuality. While he reiterated traditional Catholic teaching that marriage is...

The Front homosexuel d'action révolutionnaire (transl. Homosexual Front for Revolutionary Action; FHAR) was a loose Parisian movement founded in 1971,...

cultural views on homosexuality. According to Filipino academic J. Neil Garcia, the baklâ would fall under the inversion pattern of homosexuality identified...

world towards homosexuality encompass a range from complete celebration and the practice of same-sex marriage, to the view that homosexuality is sinfully...

to enter women's private spaces in a similar manner to blind people. Homosexual relationships were common in the Tunisian royal court and among the aristocratic...

worldwide. Opponents of LGBTQ rights may object to the decriminalization of homosexuality, laws permitting civil unions or partnerships, same-sex parenting and...

Maurice is a novel by E. M. Forster. A tale of homosexual love in early 20th-century England, it follows Maurice Hall from his schooldays through university...

was still a taboo, Football magazine When Saturday Comes described homosexuality as a "continuing taboo" in the sport in 2013. One male player who came...

Love Against Homosexuality (Ukrainian: Любов проти гомосексуалізму, Liubov proty homoseksualizmu) is a Ukrainian civil society movement that claims to...

Richie gets into an argument with Janice over Richie's son's possible homosexuality, during which he punches her in the mouth before settling down for dinner...

sexual activity between consenting adults of the same sex is legal, homosexuality is disapproved of by much of the population, and same-sex couples and...

opposite-sex sexual activity, being set at 13 for heterosexual acts and 21 for homosexual acts. In February 2026, Niger's new penal code proceeded to sanction "same-sex...

headed by Magnus Hirschfeld, who since 1897 had run the world's first homosexual organization Wissenschaftlich-humanitäres Komitee (Scientific-Humanitarian...

animal models over the prior few decades. The prenatal androgen model of homosexuality describes the neuro-developmental effects of fetal exposure to these...

immorality in Second Temple Judaism included incest, impure thoughts, homosexual relations, adultery, and bestiality. According to the rabbinic interpretation...

Homosexuals Anonymous (HA) is an ex-gay group which practices conversion therapy and describes itself as "a fellowship of men and women, who through their...

lifestyle without condemning it. Christopher Carey called it "the first homosexual novel with a truly happy ending". The novel's title references Shakespeare's...

the crimes committed by homosexuals in the Nazi Party exceed the persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany and that homosexuality contributed to the extreme...

and attempt to integrate Islam with homosexuality. It is usually a stark choice between suppressing homosexual desires and leading an undercover double...

severe laws against homosexual behaviour appeared. An edict by the Emperor Theodosius I in 390 condemned all "passive" homosexual men to death by public...

Bogarde and Sylvia Syms. The first British film to explicitly name homosexuality and deal with it sympathetically, it premiered in the UK on 31 August...

therapy that he claimed could help people overcome or mitigate their homosexual desires and replace them with heterosexual ones. Nicolosi was a founder...

job sector curtailed homosexual desire into the "Havana Underworld, which was run by the Cuban homosexual bourgeoisie." Homosexuality was a component of...

Look up homosexuality in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Homosexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction, or sexual behavior between people of...

are heterosexual, and attracted only to men, significant minorities are homosexual (lesbian) or varying degrees of bisexual. Bisexual females are more common...

Nationality Act of 1952 due to his history of homosexual activities. The Act itself did not specify homosexuality among its exclusion criteria, but the Court...

behavior. Since the publication in 1978 of Kenneth Dover's work Greek Homosexuality, the terms erastês and erômenos have been standard for the two pederastic...

33% identified as bisexual or pansexual, 27% as heterosexual, 26% as homosexual, 4% as asexual, 7% as undecided, and 4% as "other." The 2015 U.S. Transgender...

Homosexuality has been a pivotal issue for Conservative Judaism since the 1980s. A major Jewish denomination in the U.S., Conservative Judaism has wrestled...

homosexuality compared to male homosexuality, there are fewer sources to document the situations of lesbians in Nazi Germany. In Berlin, homosexual bars...

Some evidence for homosexual behavior in pre-Columbian Peru has survived since the Spanish conquest of Peru in the form of erotic ceramics (Spanish: huacos...

2015, p. 368 Andrew R. Flores (November 2021). "The Global Divide on Homosexuality Persists (with a table of the 'LGBTI Acceptance Index' 2017-2020)"....

LGBTQ people being visible in society affects societal attitudes toward homosexuality, bisexuality, and the transgender community on a wider level. One commonly...

environment". To receive such a discharge, individuals must "prove" their homosexuality, under the examination of military doctors and psychologists. The first...

had a significant impact on the ongoing debate on Anglican views of homosexuality and has been cited both by opponents and defenders of the gay movement...

nationalists, including William O'Brien (via United Ireland), alleged homosexual orgies among the staff at Dublin Castle, the seat of the British government's...

Forbidden Friendships: Homosexuality and Male Culture in Renaissance Florence is a 1996 nonfiction book by Michael Rocke, published by Oxford University...

Homosexuality in Islam: Critical Reflection on Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Muslims is a book by Scott Siraj al-Haqq Kugle. It was published in 2010...

relations between men was viewed as commonplace, but a law against homosexuality was promulgated by Christian emperors Constantius II and Constans, and...

at Androgen as a Cause of Homosexuality Boston Globe: "What makes people gay?" Homosexuality: Nature or Nurture? Homosexuality and Biology - Atlantic Magazine...

ABC's 20/20, White made comments about homosexuals. White became an ally of organizations opposed to homosexuality; he appeared in a newspaper advertising...

that speak against homosexuality as being a genetic trait. The document is based on the Christian belief that God abhors homosexuality. It also states that...

The Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire is a 1993 book by Wayne Koestenbaum. Koestenbaum explores the relationship between...

Christian churches to respond in a Christ-like way to the issue of homosexuality." The mission statement read, "To provide a Christ-centered, comprehensive...

Nigeria face severe challenges. Both male and female expressions of homosexuality are illegal in Nigeria and punishable by death in the northern portion...

beginning of gay rights protests, news on Cuban prison work camps for homosexuals inspired Mattachine Society to organize protests at the United Nations...

and pioneering campaigner for the acceptance of male bisexuality and homosexuality. Adolf Brand was born on 14 November 1874 in Berlin, which was then...

gays and lesbians in the 1950s and 1960s faced a legal system more anti-homosexual than those of some other Western and Eastern countries. Early homophile...

Investigation (FBI) maintained files concerning Mountbatten's alleged homosexuality. Lownie also interviewed several young men who claimed to have been...

Martin Levine and Michael Kimmel in Gay Macho: The Life and Death of the Homosexual Clone: Extravagant language is common. Such expressions as "Oh my word...

face legal and social challenges not experienced by non-LGBTQ residents. Homosexual activity is criminalised for both men and women within Libya, and homophobic...

evidence-based medicine and clinical guidance is that sexualities like homosexuality and bisexuality as well as gender variance are natural and healthy aspects...

socializing as a homosexual man, before and during his evangelism career, although in interviews he said that he never believed homosexuality was anything...

founder of the Campaign for Homosexual Equality. Horsfall was also the co-founder and leader of the North-Western Homosexual Law Reform Committee (NWHLRC)...

but to society as a whole. Writing before the advent of the term 'homosexuality', Fourier recognized that both men and women have a wide range of sexual...

of homosexuality in Western culture, as well as many other cultures", and that "child abuse hysteria is an industry of insanity aimed at homosexuals [which]...

culture, Japanese pornography delves into a wide spectrum of heterosexual, homosexual, and transgender sexual acts in addition to unique fetishes and paraphilias...

and bisexuality. Such continuums include mostly heterosexual or mostly homosexual, but these can be self-identified without identifying as bisexual. The...

Homosexual Behaviour: Therapy and Assessment is a 1971 book about conversion therapy by the psychologist M. P. Feldman and the psychiatrist M. J. MacCulloch...

marriage". In 19th-century England, green indicated homosexual affiliations, as popularized by homosexual author Oscar Wilde, who often wore a green carnation...

In medieval Europe, attitudes toward homosexuality varied from region to region, determined by religious culture. The Catholic Church, which dominated...

It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives (German: Nicht der Homosexuelle ist pervers, sondern die Situation, in der...

April 27, German newspaper writer Maximillian Harden publicly outed the homosexuality of Prince Eulenburg in the newspaper Die Zukunft, after previously outing...

Republicans opposed to the Briggs Initiative, which attempted to ban homosexuals from teaching in public schools, and proposed legislation that authorized...

being the earliest known American pornographic film to depict exclusively homosexual intercourse. The first known motion pictures depicting nude men were made...

1903 – 6 June 1987) was a Japanese author, best known for writing male homosexual romances. Mari Mori was born in Hongō, Tokyo. Her father was novelist...

Connecticut denied a driver's license to a man for being an "admitted homosexual". As of 1960, every state had an anti-sodomy law. In 1961, the American...

decriminalising homosexuality in 1917 wider Soviet social policy on the matter of wider homosexual rights and the treatment of homosexual people in the...

Homosexual acts in Romania were decriminalized on 6 September 2001. As with much of Europe during the time, the Romanian Middle Ages were largely characterized...

and human rights campaigner. Kertbeny coined the words heterosexual and homosexual as the German nouns Heterosexualität and Homosexualität. He translated...

The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies is a non-fiction book by film historian and LGBT activist Vito Russo, first published in 1981 by Harper...

punishment. Leviticus 18:22 has traditionally been interpreted as prohibiting homosexual acts, but its meaning is debated, with some scholars suggesting it applies...

cognitive scientist, and author of the book Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity. He completed his BA at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee...

Daily Mirror for libel after they published an article implying he was homosexual (which was criminalized at the time). Later, in 1982, he was sued by his...

While the United States Department of State reports that the laws against homosexual activity are rarely enforced, arrests have occurred; the NGO Human Rights...

psychological communities. As the gay and lesbian community rejected homosexual and replaced it with gay and lesbian, the transgender community rejected...

Homohysteria is the fear of being thought homosexual because of behavior that is typically considered gender atypical. Homohysteria can exist in cultures...

The Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform was an organisation set up to campaign for the decriminalisation of homosexuality in the Republic of Ireland and...

Italian priest, among the first Catholic activists to plead the cause of homosexuals. Bisceglia was a parish priest of the Church of the Sacred Heart of Lavello...

the ancient Greeks. It was frequently used as a euphemism for both homosexuality and pederasty. The phrase is a product of the enormous impact of the...

books based on his experience with turning away from a homosexual identity and avoiding homosexual relationships and behaviors, and gives seminars to those...

protagonist is "hot for crime" and romanticizes criminality as well as homosexuality, two facets of his identity that keep him ostracized from the general...

Self-Help Guide for leaders which stated, "[t]hough many have been told [homosexuality] is incurable, that is not true." 1970 – The church produced Hope for...

Virtually Normal: An Argument About Homosexuality (1995; second edition 1996) is a book about the politics of homosexuality by the political commentator Andrew...

Anti-Homosexuality Act, 2023, which prescribes up to twenty years in prison for "promotion of homosexuality", life imprisonment for "homosexual acts"...

Catholic priest, theologian and author of What the Bible Really Says about Homosexuality, states that the word pais, used for the servant, could have a sexual...

Mauritania. Openly homosexual Muslim men face stoning to death, though there have been no known cases of executions caused by homosexuality charges in the...

A gay best friend (GBF) is a homosexual man who has a close platonic relationship with a heterosexual woman. The term most often applies to a trope involving...

Republic of Iran is considered to be one of the most discriminatory towards homosexuals in the world. It is estimated that hundreds or thousands of people were...

The Boise homosexuality scandal refers to a sweeping investigation of a supposed "homosexual underground" in Boise, Idaho that started in 1955. Beginning...

he was shot in 1937 and rehabilitated posthumously in 1957. Klyuev was homosexual and had love affairs in Vytegra in the immediate post-revolutionary years...

differs from the concept of homosexuality: it refers specifically to the desire itself, which can be temporary, whereas "homosexuality" implies a more permanent...

the age of consent, heterosexual, fair of face, and unfamiliar with homosexuality ("So many chickens were flapping around that I thought we were touring...

1946 it had been discovered that the patriarch was involved in several homosexual affairs, including two in the 1920s while employed at the University of...

depicts social attitudes towards homosexuality in Britain at that time, while also focusing on Wolfenden and his homosexual son Jeremy Wolfenden. The Committee...

Homosexuality in ice hockey has historically been a taboo subject, especially in men's leagues. Players have faced varying receptions and levels of acceptance...

monarch under the title of Pharaoh of Egypt, is believed to have had a homosexual interpretation around nocturnal visits to his General Sasenet, though...

culture can refer either to LGBTQ culture in general or specifically to homosexual culture. LGBTQ culture varies widely by geography and the identity of...

Saul and Dublin Jack, was an Irish sex worker. He featured in two major homosexual scandals, and as a character in two works of pornographic literature of...

first organizations in the U.S. dedicated to advancing homosexual rights. Gerber wrote about homosexual oppression in an attempt to build solidarity and advocate...

changes occur at a slow rate. Homosexuality is the romantic or sexual attraction to the same sex. People with a homosexual orientation can express their...

decided to right the injustice by appointing him the god and safeguarder of homosexual affections. After his dream the man erected a shrine to Hu Tianbao, which...

Supervisors. Milk was born and raised in New York. He acknowledged his homosexuality in adolescence, but secretly pursued sexual relationships well into...

Saints (LDS Church). Before 1959 there was little explicit mention of homosexuality by BYU administration. 1948 – Gay BYU students Kent Goodridge Taylor...

Herodotus, Plato, Xenophon, Athenaeus and many others explored aspects of homosexuality in Greek society. This often took the form of pederasty, usually seen...

1986 EWC passed a resolution by a two-to-one margin stating: Whereas homosexual people are children of God, and because of the biblical mandate of Jesus...

quantities of cheap books from second-hand shops. Daley recognised he was a homosexual during his childhood and referred to his sexuality as a "small cloud"...

refers to Florence fennel. Finocchio can also be a negative term for homosexual in Italian. Finocchio may also refer to: Finocchio (Rome Metro), a station...

homosexual fellatio, although it is unknown if this is an example of sexual behavior or social grooming. Bonin flying foxes also engage in homosexual...

Hook's case garnered national attention when his defense team claimed "homosexual panic" may have prompted the killing. However, his gay panic defense failed...

Somos: Grupo de Afirmação Homossexual (English: We Are: Group of Homosexual Affirmation, shortened to Grupo Somos or Somos) was a Brazilian organization...

Christianity and homosexuality Christianity and sexual orientation Hospitium Homosexuality and Judaism Homosexuality and religion Homosexuality in the Hebrew...

During the Portuguese colonization of Brazil, homosexuality was illegal in the country between 1533 and 1830, due to the imposition of the Portuguese...

Institute. They provided their observations in Homosexuality in Perspective: Assigned male homosexual study subjects A, B, and C..., interacting in the...

the spread of HIV/AIDS in prisons to "homosexual relationships among otherwise heterosexual men and homosexual rape," situations he said are rife in Caribbean...

Barbara Gittings staffed a kissing booth underneath the banner "Hug a Homosexual," with a "women only" side and a "men only" side. She hosted the booth...

mutual support network for those detained in the Devoto prison, where homosexuals (defined as "amorals") were sent in a context of intensified persecution...

right activist and one of the first authors to study the history of homosexuality in China. Xiaomingxiong was born in 1954 in Hong Kong to Chinese parents...

The homosexual sports community in the United States has one of the highest levels of acceptance and support in the world and is rapidly growing as of...

to believe that homosexuality is immoral. For you to appoint a known homosexual to a Presidential Commission will give homosexuality a stamp of acceptability...

is parenting of children by same-sex couples generally consisting of homosexual or bisexual people who are often in civil partnerships, domestic partnerships...

Stormtrooper Families: Homosexuality and Community in the Early Nazi Movement (2015) is a book by the American historian Andrew Wackerfuss. It focuses...

Californians than any of the others, and he alone reported the presence of homosexuality in the native culture. The English translation reads: I have submitted...

Orientation and Gender Identity", which supports decriminalization of homosexuality and transgender identity. The U.S. Department of State's 2011 Human...

only. A monosexual person may identify as heterosexual (straight) or homosexual (gay/lesbian). In discussions of sexual orientation, the term is chiefly...

time later, Scanzoni finished the chapter of the book pertaining to homosexuality, and both authors decided to prepare that chapter to be published as...

earlier in Northern Ireland, with the exception of same-sex marriage. Homosexuality was decriminalised in Northern Ireland a decade earlier and civil partnerships...

War II, which resulted in the persecution and deaths of thousands of homosexual citizens. Same-sex sexual activity between men was decriminalized in both...

that homosexuality was pathological and that attempts to treat it were appropriate, although psychoanalytic opinion about changing homosexuality was largely...

provided for higher age of consent for male homosexual relations than for other (heterosexual or female homosexual) relations. The judgment of the court was...

preferred service was anal sex, with the client taking the penetrative role; homosexual fellatio is almost unmentioned in Edo period (1603–1867) documents. Kagema...

Supreme Court ruling to deal with homosexuality and the first to address free speech rights with respect to homosexuality. The Supreme Court reversed a lower...

legal protections, and Cape Verde is considered a gay tolerant country. Homosexual activity has been legal in Cape Verde since 2004. Additionally, since...

theology and sexuality. Gagnon has focused on the issue of The Bible and homosexuality. Shortly after the PCUSA declared it supports the ordination of women...

The Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act (1980) legalised homosexual acts at age 21. The homosexual age of consent was then lowered to 18 in the Criminal...

when carried out between consenting adults. Effectively, this made all homosexual sex acts illegal in Antigua and Barbuda. Both of these sections were struck...

Michael Pitt-Rivers and Edward Montagu, Lord Montagu of Beaulieu, for homosexual offences — and Wildeblood's subsequent prison sentence. Wildeblood was...

The decriminalization of homosexuality in Spain refers to the 1978 amendment of the Ley sobre Peligrosidad y Rehabilitación Social (Law on Social Dangerousness...

clergy and bishops ordained by any of the main Christian denominations. Homosexual activity was engaged in secretly. When it was made public, official response...

vague. This keeps pace with the latest global figures on acceptance of homosexuality, which suggest that acceptance of LGBTQ communities is becoming more...

informally called the "Gay Mormon Church" because of its overwhelmingly homosexual membership, although people of any sexual orientation could join. The...

causes. Cultures that are very tolerant of homosexuality do not have significantly higher rates of it. Homosexual behavior is relatively common among boys...

ban the ordination of sexually active LGBTQ clergy because they view homosexuality as incompatible with biblical doctrine and do not allow those identifying...

for Truth about Homosexuality (AFTAH). LaBarbera has been criticized for spreading hate speech and misinformation about homosexuality, with AFTAH being...

dysphoria experienced by this group is of two types: "homosexual" gender dysphoria and "non-homosexual" gender dysphoria. Blanchard defined the former as...

against conversion therapy and in favor of the decriminalization of homosexuality. Freund was born into a German-speaking Jewish family in Chrudim, then...

Global Attitudes Project, 98 percent of Malian adults believed that homosexuality is considered something society should not accept, which was the highest...

ultimately reinforced the occurrence of prejudice and discrimination against homosexuals and the heterosexuals who support them. There are several manifestations...

immoral same-sex—lesbian and homosexual—marriages", thus, "giving legal sanction to the rearing of children" in a "homosexual home". April – Apostle Bruce...

out with age". In ancient Rome the word referred to a certain class of homosexual males or male prostitutes, although its precise meaning is unclear to...

Studies in African Homosexualities is a 1998 non-fiction book that explores African anthropology, history, and gender, examining homosexuality in both traditional...

Duncan wrote the landmark essay "The Homosexual in Society." The essay, in which Duncan compared the plight of homosexuals with that of African Americans and...

United Kingdom. In practice, the law was used broadly to prosecute male homosexuals where actual sodomy (meaning, in this context, anal intercourse) could...

Isay organized a panel called "New Perspectives on Homosexuality". Isay argued that homosexuality is a normal variant of sexual identity, and that psychoanalysts...

Sepekoff; Timothy J. Wolf (1985). "Sexual Orientation". Journal of Homosexuality. 11 (1–2): 35–49. doi:10.1300/J082v11n01_04. ISSN 0091-8369. PMID 4056393...

meaning, that being a person assigned female at birth but is male. Homosexuality and same-sex relationships, gender diversity, and people of diverse...

Cassandra, published an article strongly hinting that he was a homosexual. At the time homosexual sex was illegal in the United Kingdom. Liberace was successful...

of the highest quality, flourished in Islamic culture at a time when homosexuality, introduced as a cultural refinement in Umayyad culture, played an important...

to male-female couplings, or even couplings of the same species. Both homosexual and inter-species traumatic inseminations have been observed. In humans...

was legal until 1995 when the article prohibiting homosexual sex was expanded to cover homosexual sex conducted between women. Lesbians have historically...

France) rioted following attempts of the penal administration to ban homosexual relationships between youths. This may be one of the earliest queer riots...

Greek homosexuality may refer to: Homosexuality in ancient Greece Greek Homosexuality (book) Homosexuality in modern Greece (see Category:LGBT in Greece)...

individuals, it has also, in some countries, opposed efforts to decriminalize homosexuality and resist anti-discrimination measures. The Church advocates for marriage...

fantasies of homosexual versus heterosexual males. At the time of the study, homosexuality was illegal. A 2005 study compared heterosexual and homosexual women...

Anti-Homosexuality Act may refer to two Ugandan acts of parliament: Anti-Homosexuality Act, 2023 Anti-Homosexuality Act, 2014 LGBT rights by country or...

activist. He was the cofounder of the Movimiento de Liberación Homosexual (English: Homosexual Liberation Movement) with activist Manuel Velandia; with Velandia...

for more globally common labels like lesbian, queer woman, or female homosexual. It is derived mainly from scholarship by Vietnamese-American ethnographer...

in the collection Men Without Women and is notable for its focus on homosexuality. Three Italian soldiers are snowbound. The senior soldier, the Major...

Inquisition. He justified this by claiming that Jesus Christ had been in a homosexual relationship. After being convicted of these charges, he was executed...

to be sinful and sinister. Such deviant forms included masturbation, homosexuality, prostitution and pornography. Procreation was the primary goal of sex...

Myths (ISBN 0-9714686-0-5) is a 2002 book by Andrew Calimach about homosexuality and paederasty in Greek myth. Lovers' Legends Unbound is a theatrical...

presents a picture of homosexual sex as a nearly universal male experience, in pointed contrast to the contemporary ideology of homosexuality as special identity...

Constituent Assembly. The code did not list crimes associated with homosexuality, thereby removing criminal penalties for those acts. In 1810, a new...

Code, Art. 362). Homosexual activity was illegal with anyone under 18 years of age (Art. 365) until 2022. The age of consent for homosexual activity is now...

in females regardless of age and larger in heterosexual males than in homosexual males and heterosexual females. Homologs of the INAH-3 have been found...

Homosexuality in the militaries of ancient Greece was a significant aspect across the ancient Greek city-states, ranging from being a core part of military...

Williams (2010) [1999]. Roman Homosexuality. Oxford University Press. p. 304. citing Saara Lilja (1983), Homosexuality in Republican and Augustan Rome...

depiction, Lucía Megías considers the theory of a Cervantes engaging in homosexuality in Algiers a myth, originated in transgressive revisionism in the 1980s...

(representing the entire population), 2.9 million Brazilians self-identify as homosexual or bisexual (1.8% of the population aged 18 and over). According to the...

Mankind or Beast". Prior to the 1550s, the term Buggery was not used in a homosexual sense, rather related to any sexual activity not related to procreation...

devout Catholic, Yun struggled immensely with the Church's rejection of homosexuality and spent much of his time arguing against misconceptions and cruelty...

Penguin Book of Homosexual Verse (1983) is an anthology of poetry dealing with "a history of the different ways in which homosexual people have been...

include Vault 139 and Bunker Bar in London. Gathering places favoured by homosexuals have operated for centuries. Reports from as early as the 17th century...

The number of cases continues to rise. Official reports indicate that 6 homosexual men were diagnosed in 1985, which grew to 100 people infected by 1990...

relationships including same-sex couples, sexual orientation and acts including homosexuality, gender identity and expression, and participation in social and religious...

Argentine LGBT rights activist. He founded La Comunidad Homosexual Argentina (CHA, or the Argentine Homosexual Community) in 1984. In the early 1990s, he set up...

government. This included a concurrent "Lavender Scare" against suspected homosexuals, whose illicit sexual activity was presumed to make them vulnerable to...

was homosexual and had met Grynszpan in Le Boeuf sur le Toit (a Paris bar). It is unclear whether Grynszpan himself was alleged to be homosexual or simply...

dissolved and reformed into the Bloque Socialista Unido de Liberación Homosexual which was more closely incorporated into the framework of PSUV. Lambda...

troubles in their marriage has their situation worsened when a cursed homosexual friend visits them. The film is in two parts. The first part tells a story...

exorcist evicts "homosexual demons" or other spiritual entities from an LGBT individual. These exorcisms are intended to "remove" homosexuality from an individual...

lyrics that express hatred of some ethnic minorities, Jews, communists, homosexuals, anarchists, and other perceived enemies. It is a subgenre of punk that...

"the Lord specifically forbids ... sex perversion such as homosexuality". It continues "homosexual and lesbian activities are sinful and an abomination to...

then, due to the taboo nature of homosexuality at the time. Many early novels depicting (or even alluding to) homosexuality were published anonymously or...

LGBTIQA+ activist. He is known for complaints and litigation in relation to homosexual vilification against public figures such as Jeff Kennett, Bob Katter,...

/ 52.5185°N 13.3600°E / 52.5185; 13.3600 The Memorial to the First Homosexual Emancipation Movement (German: Denkmal für die erste homosexuelle Emanzipationsbewegung)...

deny homosexuality. Possible responses can be: to avoid information about homosexuals or bisexuals; inhibited behavior; self-denial of homosexuality and...

sexuality or gender identity. Homosexuality is not illegal in statute, but instances of criminalization and execution for homosexuality have been reported. Other...

American slogan "Black is Beautiful." NACHO also adopted a five-point Homosexual Bill of Rights at its 1968 meeting: Private consensual sex between persons...

writer Carlos Monsiváis "the invention of homosexuality in Mexico", due to it being the first time homosexuality was openly spoken about in the Mexican media...

women's ordination. He also opposes abortion and euthanasia, and encourages homosexual people to be chaste. He presided over the agreement of fellowship with...

scola), an Italian dialogue published anonymously in 1652, is a defense of homosexual sodomy (anal sex) loosely styled after Socratic dialogues. The dialogue...

Royal Canadian Mounted Police and armed forces due to their suspected homosexuality. During the early stages of the Cold War, increased surveillance and...

Richard Arnold and William Critchard were a homosexual couple who were executed in Bristol in 1753. Richard Arnold, reportedly nearly 60 years of age at...

director of the Campaign for California Families, calls civil unions "homosexual marriage by another name" and contends that civil unions provide same-sex...

feature film debut. The story is inspired by actual events surrounding a homosexual relationship between two young men in 1980s Sicily. In 1982 Sicily, seventeen-year-old...

1967) is a Canadian social conservative activist who campaigns against homosexuality, trans people, and abortion. His activities have attracted attention...

There are also no written records of how the northern people thought of homosexuality before societal conversion to Christianity. The sociologist David F...

gender-affirming hormone therapy or paraphilias, and might not occur in homosexual transsexuals. In a review of the evidence in 2006, Gooren considered the...

and making it more "homosexual". A Samoan fa'afafine said, "But I would like to pursue a master's degree with a paper on homosexuality from a Samoan perspective...

shown compassion towards same-sex attracted people, saying that "If a homosexual couple wants to lead a life together, the State has the possibility to...

criticism of Rope have noticed a homosexual subtext between the characters Brandon and Phillip, even though homosexuality was a highly controversial theme...

sex slaves. Contraceptive use is permitted for birth control. Acts of homosexual intercourse are prohibited, although Muhammad—the main prophet of Islam—never...

Patroclus, but callous and arrogant toward others. Its exact nature—whether homosexual, a non-sexual deep friendship, or something else entirely—has been a subject...

publisher, author and LGBT activist, who was of major importance to the first homosexual movement. Radszuweit was born in Klein-Stobingen, a small hamlet in Insterburg...

matters of homosexuality. Moll eviscerated Hirschfeld's Scientific-Humanitarian Committee's position on homosexuality as a "poison" for each homosexual seeking...

gender have been retroactively applied to them. Many mythologies ascribe homosexuality and gender fluidity in humans to the action of gods or of other supernatural...

deals with the phenomenon of sexual inversion, an outdated term for homosexuality, as well as heterosexual trans people. It is part of Ellis' seven-volume...

Corydon is a book by André Gide consisting of four Socratic dialogues on homosexuality. The name of the book comes from Virgil's pederastic character Corydon...

The Merchant Shipping (Homosexual Conduct) Act 2017 (c. 26) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The act repealed parts of the Criminal Justice...

Section 11 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885, which criminalised male homosexual acts in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, breached the defendant's...

the claim that Hitler was a homosexual and said that Hitler recruited homosexuals into the stormtroopers because "homosexual soldiers basically had no limits...

various artworks and literary works of Ancient India, with evidence that homosexuality and transsexuality were accepted by the major dharmic religions. Hinduism...

problems faced by lesbians. One of the first modern women to come out as homosexual, she has been described as "the first known lesbian activist". Rüling...

cast of supporting characters. A story featuring a heterosexual male or homosexual female protagonist paired with an all-female/yuri harem is informally...

used to condemn homosexuality and same-sex marriage. Dickens spoke with ministers on both sides of the debate surrounding homosexuality and the Bible for...

former president of the National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH), a research organization that advocates sexual orientation change...

up to ten years in prison. The 135-year-old British law criminalizing homosexual acts remains on the books; however, the law is not used and remains a...

Irrepressibles released a new single, "Ecstasy Homosexuality". Kaltblut magazine wrote. "'Ecstasy Homosexuality' isn’t just a song — it's a movement. It's...

LGBTQ community. When a person is arrested in Morocco for a suspected homosexual act, their name is publicised, thereby publicly identifying the individual...

Homosexuality in Mapuche culture is a topic that was historically made taboo since the arrival of the Spanish Conquistadors to present-day Chile and Argentina...

People, reflected "a growing awareness of homosexuality, homosexual communities, and the dynamics of homosexual oppression as it was played out in society...

certainly don't want to live only with queers." By the 1970s' United States, homosexual organizations split along gender lines. Lesbian-only organizations, such...

biography deals in part with Jones's sexuality. Masters asserts that Jones is homosexual, which Jones has never acknowledged. Masters began Jonestown in 2002 after...

discusses Adolf Hitler's sexuality. Machtan argues that Hitler was a closeted homosexual. Among the evidence, he cites the allegedly homoerotic nature of his friendship...

president-elect of the APA in 1973, and a closeted homosexual at the time, he helped to change the definition of homosexuality in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual...

killed their pregnant dog. He blamed this incident for his hatred of homosexuals. Nakada claims to have tortured animals as a child.[citation needed]...

India that decriminalised all consensual sex among adults, including homosexual sex. The court was asked to determine the constitutionality of Section...

the trigger for homosexual law reform, which led to South Australia becoming the first Australian state to decriminalise homosexuality. George Duncan was...

referee and gay rights activist. He was notable for being one of the first homosexual athletes to come out in the Netherlands. As a child, Blankenstein moved...

Since the transition into the modern-day gay rights movement, homosexuality has appeared more frequently in American film and cinema. One of the current...

Male Homosexuality in Children's Literature, 1867–1918: The Young Uranians is a history book written by Eric L. Tribunella and published by Routledge...

allegiance to the Communist Party, which later expelled him because of his homosexuality. Hocquenghem taught philosophy at the Paris 8 University Vincennes and...

literature, before proceeding to defend a PhD in the field of history of homosexuality in Croatia and Yugoslavia in 2017. Since 2007, he is a member of the...

as an advocate for change in the Roman Catholic Church's stance on homosexuality", and as an activist group for LGBT rights and education about LGBT...

evidence to determine for certain the details of their relationships. Homosexuality was fiercely condemned by the Church in 14th-century England, which...

orientation, but research has linked childhood gender nonconformity and homosexuality. Often, sexual orientation and sexual orientation identity are not distinguished...

raids and arrests against homosexuals. The popular story alleges that "fondeamiento" was carried out against captured homosexuals who were embarked at Valparaíso...

produced as beefcake pornography directed toward heterosexual female, homosexual male, and bisexual audiences of any gender. Although it has also been...

Despite being more safe than elsewhere, homosexual activists in Berlin usually did not out themselves as homosexual and fronted their championing of gay...

group. Homosexuality describes a pattern of attraction to other persons of the same sex. The term lesbian is commonly used to refer to homosexual women...

was the setting where countless homosexual men and women tasted the life among homosexual peers. Post-war, homosexual individuals congregated in larger...

Eisenberg describes homosexuality as "a key symbolic issue throughout the Middle Ages in Iberia", stating that "in al-Andalus homosexual pleasures were much...

by France's Centre for Functional and Evolutionary Ecology found that homosexual pairings in penguins is widespread, but such pairings do not usually last...

a Moral Environment (HOME) is an American pro-heterosexuality, anti-homosexuality organization founded by Wayne Lela and based in Downers Grove, Illinois...

"anyone can be called a latent homosexual, but there is no evidence that Fitzgerald was ever involved in a homosexual attachment". Scholars have focused...

discovered clusters of Kaposi's sarcoma and pneumocystis pneumonia in homosexual men in Los Angeles, New York City, and San Francisco in 1981. Treatment...

fundraising initiatives. List of individual birds Homosexual behavior in penguins List of animals displaying homosexual behavior Roy and Silo Bowles, Nellie (24...

gra w ciasteczko (the cookie game). Soggy biscuit is associated with homosexuality, despite the fact that the majority of participants are heterosexual...

positively littered the screen", was "successfully aimed at a very specialized homosexual audience." The film was released on DVD in the UK and the U.S. A Blu-ray...

maraco—used in Chile, only against male homosexuals; see maraca below. maraca—used in Chile, only against female homosexuals; see maraco above. mayate-used in...

stigmatizing homosexuality. Many struggled with fitting in within their societies due to their homosexuality. Meanwhile, for homosexual women that were...

for homosexual persons.”[dead link] This letter, addressed to all the bishops of the Catholic Church, was entitled On the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons...

the Eleventh Circuit upholding Florida's ban of adoption of children by homosexual persons as enforced by the Florida Department of Children and Families...