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 Gay Lib writer Toby Marotta, " their Gay political outlooks were not homophile but liberationist ".

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 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.

According to Ridenti, who cites the Fernando Henrique Cardoso administration as an example of the first group and the Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva administration as an example of the second, " we have it cyclically ".

According to Hiram Araújo da Costa, over the centuries, the festival of dances of slaves in Bahia were called samba.

According to João da Baiana, the samba-raiado was the same as chula raiada or samba de partido-alto.

According to historian Luís da Câmara Cascudo, it is possible to observe the influence of city in the samba, by the fact that it is also danced by pair connections.

According to Vasari, who was not only the architect of the Uffizi but also the author of Lives of the Artists, published in 1550 and 1568, artists such as Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo gathered at the Uffizi " for beauty, for work and for recreation.

According to Losada, the name came from Portuguese explorers, the sailors of Vasco da Gama in India, who first brought them to Europe.

According to Wölfflin, painters of the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries ( Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael or Albrecht Dürer ) are more linear than " painterly " Baroque painters of the seventeenth century ( Peter Paul Rubens, Rembrandt, and Velázquez ) because they primarily use outline to create shape.

According to José Pedro Machado ’ s Dicionário Etimológico da Língua Portuguesa, the oldest known document where this Portuguese word is to be found is Gil Vicente ’ s play Comédia de Rubena, written in 1521:

According to one definition of the term, they were first invented by Lucas Cranach in Germany in 1507, and first made in Italy by Ugo da Carpi before 1516.

According to some commentators, Kirchner was seen as part of a spectrum of new South American leaders, including Hugo Chávez in Venezuela, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Brazil and Tabaré Vázquez in Uruguay, who see the Washington consensus as an unsuccessful model for economic development in the region.

According to Encyclopædia Britannica, the Italian Renaissance inventor Leonardo da Vinci may have been influenced by the classic automata of al-Jazari.

According to Vasari, the statue stood on a column designed by Desiderio da Settignano in the middle of the courtyard of the Palazzo Medici ; an inscription seems to have explained the statue's significance as a political monument: " Victor est quisquis patriam tuetur / Frangit immanis Deus hostis iras / En puer grandem domuit tiramnum / Vincite cives " ( The victor is whoever defends the fatherland.

According to Randel, a number of Baroque composers ( he lists Hasse, Handel, Porpora, Leo, and Vinci ) composed more than a thousand da capo arias during their careers.

According to an article in the New York Sun, Chavezism was rejected in recent elections in Peru, Colombia and Mexico, and El Universal reports that former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva distanced himself from Chavezism, saying that Brazil is not Venezuela, and has traditional institutions.

According to legend, his mother breaks every bone and limb in his body after his birth and bathes him in Chinese Rubbing Alcohol ( 鐵打酒 dit da jow ) to make him practically invulnerable.

According to da Vinci, the frictional resistance was the same for two different objects of the same weight but making contacts over different widths and lengths.

According to tradition, young Giacomo was plowing a field when a platoon of mercenaries led by Boldrino da Panicale passed nearby in search of recruits.

According to the information Figaro gives at various points throughout the plays, his life story appears to be thus: he was the illegitimate son of Dr. Bartholo and his maid Marceline, and presumably therefore given his mother's family name, was born Emmanuel de Verte-Allure ( he is referred as " Rafaello " by Lorenzo da Ponte in his libretto for Mozart ´ s Le Nozze di Figaro ).

According to the first tradition, the next holder would be Infanta Maria da Glória Joana ( 1819 – 53 ), the eldest daughter of Pedro IV.

According to Giorgio Vasari, his best pupils were Giovanni dal Lione, Raffaellino dal Colle, Benedetto Pagni, Figurino da Faenza, Giovanni Battista Bertani and his brother Rinaldo, and Fermo Guisoni.

According to Darby, it was also seen as a serious loss of erogenous tissue: " During the Renaissance and 18th century the centrality of the foreskin to male sexual function and the pleasure of both partners was recognised by anatomists Berengario da Carpi, Gabriello Fallopio and William Harvey, in popular sex manuals like Aristotle's master-piece, and by physicians like John Hunter, who also appreciated the importance of the foreskin in providing the slack tissue needed to accommodate an erection.

According to Historian Severino da Silva in his book History of Christianity in Canara vol.

According to Vasari, whilst working as a labourer carrying the materials for the builders of the Vatican logge he ingratiated himself with the artists, and attracted the admiration of Maturino da Firenze, one of Raphael's main assistants in the ongoing decoration of the Vatican.

According to Vasari, he apprenticed in the workshop of Andrea del Verrocchio alongside Leonardo da Vinci, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Lorenzo di Credi, Filippino Lippi and others.