In 1958 he was, along with Bertrand Russell, one of a group of notables to establish the Homosexual Law Reform Society.

* 1986 – The Parliament of New Zealand passes the Homosexual Law Reform Act legalising homosexuality in New Zealand.

For many years Robinson also worked as legal advisor for the Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform with future Trinity College senator David Norris.

Coincidentally, just as Mary McAleese replaced Mary Robinson as Reid Professor of Law in Trinity, and would succeed her to the Irish presidency, so Robinson replaced McAleese in the Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform.

* The Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform succeeds in having the Irish sodomy law reformed.

Other fourth Labour government innovations included greater recognition of the Treaty of Waitangi through the Waitangi Tribunal, Homosexual Law Reform, the Constitution Act 1986 and the New Zealand Bill of Rights.

Before the passing of the Homosexual Law Reform Act in 1986, the Salvation Army was active throughout the country gathering signatures for a petition seeking to prevent the bill's passing.

Intertwining his religious and political views, " Save Ulster from Sodomy " was a campaign launched by Paisley in 1977, in opposition to the Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform ( Northern Ireland ), established in 1974.

* Homosexual Law Reform Society

During the same decade she was legal advisor to and a founding member of the Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform.

Founder of the Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform, he is also a prominent member of the Church of Ireland.

The Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform was an organisation set up to campaign for the decriminalisation of homosexuality in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland in the 1970s.

It was short-lived, but two of the splinter organizations formed on campus were the Dublin University Gay Society, the first long-term LGBT rights organization in Ireland, and a group of law students known as the Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform.

Homophile organizations elsewhere include Arcadie ( 1954 ) in France and the British Homosexual Law Reform Society ( founded 1958 ).

* Homosexual Law Reform Society ( 1958 – 1970 when it was renamed as the Sexual Law Reform Society ).

* The Homosexual Law Reform Society ( 1965 – 1969 )

Liberalisation has been championed by figures like Mary Robinson, a radical feminist senator who became President of Ireland, and David Norris, who led the Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform.

* Against the Law: The Classic Account of a Homosexual in 1950s Britain Peter Wildeblood, Matthew Parris ( introduction ) ( Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999 ) ISBN 0-297-64382-7

* In New Zealand, the Homosexual Law Reform Act equalizes the age of consent for homosexual acts to 16, the legal age for heterosexual acts.

Young retired from parliament at the 1990 election, although not before another homosexual law reform bill ( promoted by Labour's Fran Wilde ), the Homosexual Law Reform Act 1986, was successfully passed.

In December 2004 Independent Senator David Norris, who had been central to the 1970s and 1980s Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform tabled a Private Member's Bill on Civil Partnerships in the Seanad.

Sir Peter L. Tait ( 5 September 1915 – 1996 ) was a New Zealand National Party Member of Parliament, Napier mayor, small businessman and opponent of New Zealand's Homosexual Law Reform Act.

Ultimately, though, the Homosexual Law Reform Act passed its final reading.

The church also became involved heavily in social conservative political activism against the ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women in 1984, the establishment of Lyndhurst Hospital ( a free-standing abortion clinic ) in Christchurch, and passage of the Homosexual Law Reform Act in 1986.

After the Sexual Offences Act 1967 came into force, the London-based Homosexual Law Reform Society was thought by many to have achieved its aims.

After the legalisation of male homosexuality in the UK with the implementation of the Sexual Offences Act 1967 other more political organisations had appeared, such as the Campaign for Homosexual Equality which focuses on equal rights for all homosexuals.

Merle Miller ( May 17, 1919 – June 10, 1986 ) was an American writer, novelist, and best-selling author who came out of the closet in an article in the New York Times Magazine on January 17, 1971, titled " What It Means to Be a Homosexual ".

LGBT rights advocates widely criticized his 1986 letter to the Bishops of the Church, On the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons, in which he stated that " although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is a more or less strong tendency ordered toward an intrinsic moral evil ; and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder.

* 1975 – Gays in the military: US Air Force Tech Sergeant Leonard Matlovich, a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, appears in his Air Force uniform on the cover of Time magazine with the headline " I Am A Homosexual ".

Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940 – 1970.

* " Homosexual panic " and the mercenary killing – AIC Research and Public Policy Series ( Australia ).

* Campaign for Homosexual Equality ( 1964 – present )

* The Mattachine Society ( 1950 – 1987 ) and the Mattachine Review ( 1955 – 1966 ); Homosexual Citizen, ( published by the Washington chapter, 1966 –?

* Documents of the Homosexual Rights Movement in Germany 1836 – 1927 ( 1975 )

Evelyn Hooker ( September 2, 1907 – November 18, 1996 ) was an American psychologist most notable for her 1957 paper " The Adjustment of the Male Overt Homosexual " in which she administered several psychological tests to groups of self-identified homosexuals and heterosexuals and asked experts to identify the homosexuals.

* October – The newly-consolidated United States Department of Defense standardizes anti-homosexual regulations across all branches of the military: " Homosexual personnel, irrespective of sex, should not be permitted to serve in any branch of the Armed Forces in any capacity, and prompt separation of known homosexuals from the Armed Forces is mandatory.

* Homosexual – from the Greek ὁμός ( homos ) meaning " same " and the Latin sexus meaning " gender " ( This example is remarked on in Tom Stoppard's The Invention of Love, with A. E. Housman's character saying " Homosexuality?

** Homosexual practices appear to be condemned in Judges 19: 1 – 20: 48 ( cf.

** Homosexual practices are explicitly condemned in Romans 1: 26 – 28 ; 1 Corinthians 6: 9 – 10 ; 1 Timothy 1: 9 – 10

* Homosexual lovemaps – love mappings associative to persons of the same gender.

Homosexual interpretations have been part of the academic study of Batman since psychologist Fredric Wertham asserted in his Seduction of the Innocent in 1954 that " Batman stories are psychologically homosexual.

Evelyn Hooker in 1957 published “ The Adjustment of the Male Overt Homosexual ”, which found that " homosexuals were not inherently abnormal and that there was no difference between homosexual and heterosexual men in terms of pathology.

200 Participants Reporting a Change from Homosexual to Heterosexual Orientation ", a study of attempts to change homosexual orientation through ex-gay ministries and conversion therapy, at the American Psychiatric Association's convention in New Orleans.

Donald Webster Cory writes in The Homosexual in America ( 1951 ) that " Psychoanalysts have informed me that their homosexual patients were calling themselves gay in the nineteen-twenties, and certainly by the nineteen-thirties it was the most common word in use by homosexuals themselves.

The Report of the Departmental Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution ( better known as the Wolfenden report, after Lord Wolfenden, the chairman of the committee ) was published in Britain on 4 September 1957 after a succession of well-known men, including Lord Montagu, Michael Pitt-Rivers and Peter Wildeblood, were convicted of homosexual offences.

Homosexual men tend to exhibit more female-like patterns in the amygdala than do heterosexual males, just as homosexual females tend to show more male-like patterns in the amygdala than do heterosexual women.

Homosexual and bisexual prisoners who describe themselves as heterosexual -- and who deny being homosexual or bisexual -- are known to sometimes begin sexual relations with each other when confined together for long periods of time and, in these situations, sexual activity is ostensibly negotiated in a spirit of mutual respect and equality, lacking any opposite sex partners.

As evidence, SPLC cited a 1999 publication by the FRC, Homosexual Activists Work to Normalize Sex With Boys, which claimed: “ one of the primary goals of the homosexual rights movement is to abolish all age of consent laws and to eventually recognize pedophiles as the ‘ prophets ’ of a new sexual order .” The report said FRC senior research fellows Tim Dailey ( hired in 1999 ) and Peter Sprigg ( 2001 ) had both " pushed false accusations linking gay men to pedophilia ".

Homosexual men, he said, were not by nature effeminate, and he pointed out that many of the great heroes of history were homosexual.

" Because his statements characterized homosexual acts as " impure and unnatural " and implied that individuals can choose not to engage in Homosexual behaviors, a petition was submitted to LDS Church headquarters on October 12, 2010 by the gay activist organization, Human Rights Campaign ( HRC ).

Homosexual behavior in animals refers to the documented evidence of homosexual and bisexual behavior in various ( non-human ) species.

Homosexual panic is a term, first coined by psychiatrist Edward J. Kempf in 1920, describing an acute, brief reactive psychosis suffered by the target of unwanted homosexual advances.

The Homosexual Law Reform Society was an organisation that campaigned in the United Kingdom for changes in the laws that criminalised homosexual relations between men.

* Dialogue from the film Female Trouble between Edith Massey's " Aunt Ida " character and Micheal Potter's " Gator ", in which Aunt Ida tries to convince Gator to become a homosexual, was used as the intro to the 1989 song " I Don't Wanna Be a Homosexual " by the band Sloppy Seconds.

For example, the influence of homosexual themes and concerns began to enter his work ; as in Shameful Vice in 1994, and more explicitly in Seventeen Immortal Homosexual Poets in 1997.

Dan Slater of the Los Angeles Homosexual Information Center said, " There is no such thing as a homosexual lifestyle.

The kit also included a " Homosexual Issue Analysis ", which focused on " Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride " and warned the episode taught children " tolerance and acceptance of homosexuality through the perverse idea that Stan's dog, Sparky, is a homosexual dog ".

Homosexual relations that occur between consenting adults in private are a crime and carry a maximum punishment of death ( though not generally implemented ) Forced homosexual relations ( rape ) often results in execution.

He was also campaigner for homosexual law reform and a member of the Homosexual Law Reform Society's executive committee.

Homosexual men therefore, needed places where they could meet other homosexual men, to fulfill their same-sex attractions without potentially being caught by authorities.

Noel Annan was also a signatory to the famous letter published in The Times in 1958 which saw the establishment of the Homosexual Law Reform Society, a group who fought for homosexual law reform.