According to Gay, Herbert had relatively few followers, and it was not until the 1680s that Herbert found a true successor in Charles Blount ( 1654 – 1693 ).

According to the International Lesbian and Gay Association ( ILGA ) seven countries still retain capital punishment for homosexual behavior: Afghanistan, Iran, Mauritania, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, and Yemen.

According to the Grupo Gay da Bahia, Brazil's oldest gay rights NGO, the rate of murders of homosexuals in Brazil is particularly high, with a reported 3, 196 cases over the 30-year period of 1980 to 2009 ( or about 0. 7 cases per 100, 000 population per annum ).

According to Charles Kaiser ’ s The Gay Metropolis, there were already semi-public gay-themed gatherings by the mid-1930s in the United States ( such as the annual drag balls held during the Harlem Renaissance ).

According to The New York Times: " Gay wrote the work more as an anti-opera than an opera, one of its attractions to its 18th-century London public being its lampooning of the Italian opera style and the English public's fascination with it.

According to David Stein, the man who coined " Safe, Sane, and Consensual S / M " for New York ’ s Gay Male S / M Activists ( GMSMA ) SSC was only intended to be put forward as a minimum standard for ethically defensible S / M play, to establish a distinction between play between loving S / M partners and the public perception of sadomasochism which would be more accurately described as abusive behavior.

According to the US Embassy cables released by Wikileaks, Peter Tatchell informed the US Embassy about his injuries at the hands of neo-Nazis at the 2007 Moscow Gay Pride Parade.

According to the book Images in the Dark by Raymond Murray, Akerman refused to have her work ghettoized, and she denied the New York Gay Film Festival the right to screen Je tu il elle.

According to his children, Gay would make his children observe an extended Sabbath, which was every Saturday.

According to Gay's daughter Jeanne, Gay was someone who never " spared the rod, he was very, very strict " in reference to the saying " spare the rod, spoil the child ".

According to Jeanne Gay, her father never worked for no longer than three years.

According to Alberta in 1984, the couple hadn't shared the same bed in nearly ten years, with Gay and Alberta sleeping in separate bedrooms.

Based on " Engstrom's " Hegemony in Reality-Based TV Programming: The World According to A Wedding Story ( Media Report to Women ( 2003 ) 31 ( 1 ) 10 – 14 ) and " Hegemony and Counterhegemony in Bravo's Gay Weddings ( Popular Culture Review ( 2004 ) 15 ( 2 ) 34 – 35 ).

According to Barney Frank's book The Story of America's Only Left-handed, Gay, Jewish Congressman by Stuart E. Weisberg, In the election of 1970, against Kevin White, White was the first mayor to declare the city had a race problem and that people did not want him to become governor and keep him as mayor.

According to Ryden, the “ Gay 90s ” is a thematic genre that pushes sentimentality and kitsch to its utmost limits.

According to the India Meteorological Department ( IMD ), Gay was the first typhoon since 1891 to form in the Gulf of Thailand and enter the Bay of Bengal.

According to Hilary Beckles, historian and principal of the University of the West Indies-Cave Hill Campus, Sir John Gay Alleyne was a popular leader among the planter elite and a great philanthropist.

According to the publications Zeek: A Jewish Journal of Thought and Culture and Value War: Public Opinion and the Politics of Gay Rights, it was the controversial lesbian outing of the main character ( played by Ellen DeGeneres ) in the sitcom Ellen in 1997 that paved the way for Patty's coming-out in this episode, as well as for many other gay characters on other television shows.

According to the publications Zeek: A Jewish Journal of Thought and Culture and Value War: Public Opinion and the Politics of Gay Rights, it was the controversial lesbian outing of the main character ( played by Ellen DeGeneres ) in the sitcom Ellen in 1997 that paved the way for Patty's coming-out in " There's Something About Marrying ", as well as for many other gay characters on other television shows.

According to George Chauncey's book Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940, Legman was a homosexual and is credited with having invented the vibrating dildo when he was only twenty.

According to historian Peter Gay, the eighteenth-century French philosophes of the Enlightenment found Cicero's eclectic, Stoic-tinged paganism congenial: The ideal of humanitas was first brought to Rome by the philosophic circle around Scipio and further developed by Cicero.

According to one of its organisers " Our aim was to announce ourselves and let Birmingham know gay people were here: ‘ Here we are and here we ’ ll stay ’" Two or three further such events were organised by Birmingham Gay Liberation Front until the organisation declined in the mid 1970s.

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According to Erdman, Ad Lib " was considered rather shocking because it incorporated improvisations.

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According to the writer Timothy Dufort, by 1969, all Church of England bishops had acquired Old Catholic lines of apostolic succession recognised by the Holy See.

According to this theory, the anonymous author attributed these events to Daniel, as prophecies that were witnessed by this writer in the 2nd century BCE.

* According to culinary writer Giuliano Bugialli, the term comes from the Italian bagno maria, named after Maria de ' Cleofa, who developed the technique in Florence in the sixteenth century.

According to activist writer Naomi Klein, ironic enjoyment of the film initially arose among those with the video before MGM, the film's chief marketer, capitalized on the idea.

According to one nineteenth-century writer, at a time when it was hard for unknown painters to come to the attention of the Royal Academy, he first found notice by displaying a painting at the " small Corpus Christi " ( held eight days after the regular one ) on the Place Dauphine ( by the Pont Neuf ).

According to writer / director Peter Bogdanovich, Marlene Dietrich told him during an aircraft flight that she and James Stewart had an affair during shooting and that she became pregnant and had the baby surreptitiously aborted without telling Stewart.

According to music writer Piero Scaruffi, the disco phenomenon spread quickly because the " collective ecstasy " of disco was cathartic and regenerative and led to freedom of expression.

According to the 4th century Latin writer Servius, a fourth set of Etruscan books existed, dealing with animal gods, but it is unlikely that any scholar living in the 4th century could have read Etruscan.

According to tradition, Ezra was the writer of the Books of Chronicles.

According to Alf Brown, football writer for The Herald:

According to a writer cited by the author of the Easton's Bible Dictionary, this epistle

" According to writer Philip Norman, when Groucho jokingly pointed his index fingers as if holding a pair of six-shooters, Elton John put up his hands and said, " Don't shoot me, I'm only the piano player ," thereby naming the album he had just completed.

According to writer Chris Yost, Elixir is still on Necrosha.

According to the ancient astronaut writer Peter Kolosimo a robot was seen entering a subterranean tunnel below a monastery in Mongolia, he also claimed a light was seen from underground in Azerbaijan.

According to writer Mike Carey, " the events leading up to Messiah Complex, Iceman got blindsided by Mystique " are " still preying on to a large extent " and " some of those events be revisited.

According to writer Mike Carey " one of Iceman's best personality traits is that emotionally Bobby Drake is like the ice he manipulates -- not cold but transparent.

According to Eliot Weinberger, an American writer, essayist, editor and translator, Kosiński was not the author of The Painted Bird.

According to Camus, Sartre was a writer who resisted, not a resister who wrote.

According to B. Boy Omega, a writer for The Source, the first Latino in hip hop music was DJ Disco Wiz, a product of a Puerto Rican father and a Cuban mother who was born in The Bronx.

According to her statement, the Norwegian Film Fund was blocking her and writer Kjetil Bjørnstad from pursuing the project.

According to Mad writer Frank Jacobs, a letter was once successfully delivered to the magazine through the U. S. mail bearing only Neuman's face, without any address or other identifying information.

According to the writer Marianna Torgovnick, " The most fully documented instances of cannibalism as a social institution come from New Guinea, where head-hunting and ritual cannibalism survived, in certain isolated areas, into the fifties, sixties, and seventies, and still leave traces within certain social groups.

According to the foreword of Ubik: The Screenplay ( by Tim Powers, a friend of Dick's and fellow science fiction writer ), Dick had an idea for the film which involved " the film itself appearing to undergo a series of reversions: to black-and-white, then to the awkward jerkiness of very early movies, then to a crookedly jammed frame which proceeds to blacken, bubble and melt away, leaving only the white glare of the projection bulb, which in turn deteriorates to leave the theater in darkness, and might almost leave the moviegoer wondering what sort of dilapidated, antique jalopy he'll find his car-keys fitting when he goes outside.

According to writer James Stevens in his 1925 book Paul Bunyan, French Canadians gave birth to the tales during the Papineau Rebellion of 1837, when they revolted against the young English Queen .< ref >