Since Carangi's death, she has been considered a lesbian supermodel and icon and is said to have epitomized " lesbian chic " more than a decade before the term was coined.

The November 1980 issue of Vogue stated that Carangi's track marks from shooting heroin were visible even after airbrushing.

This version of Gia was not produced, but after Tamerlis ' death, footage of Carangi, Tamerlis, photographers, Carangi's family, and Sandy Linter discussing her life was incorporated into a 2003 documentary entitled The Self-Destruction of Gia.

Carangi's attempt to quit drugs was abandoned when she learned that her good friend and fashion photographer Chris von Wangenheim died in a car accident.

Later, when Carangi's heroin addiction made it impossible for her to find work, Scavullo continued to employ her and support her until her eventual death from complications relating to AIDS.

Although she had never met supermodel Gia Carangi, she was working on a biographical screenplay of Carangi's life at the time of her death, and she appeared posthumously in the documentary The Self-Destruction of Gia.

Fashion world stalwarts like photographer Francesco Scavullo and designers Diane von Fürstenberg and Vera Wang describe Carangi's special spark, and the arc of her modeling career.

In 1996, actress-screenwriter Zoë Tamerlis, herself a heroin addict who died of drug-related causes in 1999, was commissioned to write a screenplay based upon Carangi's life.

On March 1, 1980, Carangi's agent, Wilhelmina Cooper, died of lung cancer.

However, weeks later, Francesco Scavullo, Carangi's friend and confidant, sent a Mass card when he heard the news.

Affectional orientation ( or romantic orientation ) is used both alternatively and side-by-side with sexual orientation.

Lately, the predominant use of the term " sexual orientation " is considered to reduce a whole category of desires and emotions, as well as power and connection, to sex.

It does however retain its separation from sexual attraction and as such is seen by many as an orientation within an orientation amongst the asexual community.

Aromantics can still have a sexual orientation ( e. g., " aromantic bisexual " or " aromantic heterosexual ").

That month, Clinton implemented a Department of Defense directive known as " Don't Ask, Don't Tell ", which allowed gay men and women to serve in the armed services provided they kept their sexuality a secret, and forbade the military from inquiring about an individual's sexual orientation.

Christian denominations hold a variety of views on the issues of sexual orientation and homosexuality, ranging from outright condemnation to complete acceptance.

The United Church of Canada also allows same-sex marriage, and views sexual orientation as a gift from God.

For example, in 1988 the United Church of Canada, that country's largest Protestant denomination, affirmed that " a ) All persons, regardless of their sexual orientation, who profess Jesus Christ and obedience to Him, are welcome to be or become full member of the Church ; and b ) All members of the Church are eligible to be considered for the Ordered Ministry.

They differentiate among various sexual practices, treating rape, prostitution, or temple sex rituals as immoral and those within committed relationships as positive regardless of sexual orientation.

It is the same with sexual orientation.

Alan Chambers, the president of Exodus, says the term incorrectly implies a complete change in sexual orientation, though the group Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays continues to use the term.

After a vote by the APA trustees in 1973, and confirmed by the wider APA membership in 1974, the diagnosis was replaced with the category of " sexual orientation disturbance ".

Additionally, the diagnosis of ego-dystonic homosexuality replaced the DSM-II category of " sexual orientation disturbance ".

" Sexual orientation disturbance " was also removed and was largely subsumed under " sexual disorder not otherwise specified " which can include " persistent and marked distress about one ’ s sexual orientation.

" The act prohibited any homosexual or bisexual person from disclosing his or her sexual orientation or from speaking about any homosexual relationships, including marriages or other familial attributes, while serving in the United States armed forces.

Policies based on sexual orientation appeared as the United States prepared to enter World War II.

The policy was introduced as a compromise measure in 1993 by President Bill Clinton who campaigned in 1992 on the promise to allow all citizens to serve in the military regardless of sexual orientation.

The Clinton Administration on December 21, 1993, issued Defense Directive 1304. 26, which directed that military applicants were not to be asked about their sexual orientation.

If Wilhelm Reich is the Moses who has led them out of the Egypt of sexual slavery, Dylan Thomas is the poet who offers them the Dionysian dialectic of justification for their indulgence in liquor, marijuana, sex, and jazz.

Carl Kauffeld has written to me of sexual activity in February 1943 of young born in March 1940.

The effectiveness of the technique is demonstrated to a group of VIPs, who watch as Alex collapses before a walloping bully, and abases himself before a scantily-clad young woman whose presence has aroused his predatory sexual inclinations.

He also attempts to illustrate the way in which humanity, through sexual perversion and specifically homosexuality, has defiled itself from nature and God.

It has been claimed that De Amore codifies the social and sexual life of Eleanor's court at Poitiers between 1170 and 1174, though it was evidently written at least ten years later and, apparently, at Troyes.

Clinton has been subject to several allegations of sexual misconduct, though he has only admitted extramarital relationships with Monica Lewinsky and Gennifer Flowers.

Controversy has arisen over various sexual interpretations made regarding the content of Batman comics in the early decades.

" While Frank Miller has described the relationship between Batman and the Joker as a " homophobic nightmare ," he views the character as sublimating his sexual urges into crimefighting, concluding, " He'd be much healthier if he were gay.

" Burt Ward, who portrayed Robin in the 1960s television show, has also remarked upon this interpretation in his autobiography Boy Wonder: My Life in Tights ; he writes that the relationship could be interpreted as a sexual one, with the show's double entendres and lavish camp also possibly offering ambiguous interpretation.

However, Ruth's and Naomi's story has also occasionally been interpreted as sexual in nature.

Animal communication, and indeed the understanding of the animal world in general, is a rapidly growing field, and even in the 21st century so far, a great share of prior understanding related to diverse fields such as personal symbolic name use, animal emotions, animal culture and learning, and even sexual conduct, long thought to be well understood, has been revolutionized.

It has been strongly criticised by human rights organisations due to its terror, including killings, torture and sexual violence.

The expression " cannibalism " has been extended into zoology to mean one individual of a species consuming all or part of another individual of the same species as food, including sexual cannibalism.

Cycling has been linked to sexual impotence due to pressure on the perineum from the seat, but fitting a proper sized seat prevents this effect.

Following the lead of Yale scholar John Boswell, it has been argued that a number of Early Christians entered into homosexual relationships, and that certain Biblical figures had homosexual relationships, despite Biblical injunctions against sexual relationships between members of the same sex.

There has also been discussion about the significance of the selection of the Ethiopian eunuch as being the first gentile conversion: inclusion of a eunuch, representing sexual minority in the context of the time.

In the Western world, the term has become closely associated ( and is often used interchangeably ) with sexual abstinence, especially before marriage.

However, the term remains applicable to persons in all states, single or married, clerical or lay, and has implications beyond sexual temperance.

It has been described as the arrival of the expression of raw female sexual desire in pop music.

While the article specifically prohibits discrimination based on " sex, race, colour, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, association with a national minority, property, birth or other status ", the last of these allows the court to extend to Article 14 protection to other grounds not specifically mentioned such as has been done regarding discrimination based on a person's sexual orientation.

Controversial for its explicit sexual content, it has never been seen uncensored in Japan.

Professor Forker for example has explored the " historically documentable sexual preferences " of both King James and Bacon – and concluded they were all oriented to " masculine love ", a contemporary term that " seems to have been used exclusively to refer to the sexual preference of men for members of their own gender.

Because the males have a stronger odor than the females, it is suspected that it also has a sexual function.