Homosexual sex acts were illegal in several states and gay bars were frequently raided by police.

* Homosexual acts between consenting adults are decriminalized in Queensland.

* Homosexual acts between consenting adults are decriminalized in Western Australia.

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" 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 ).

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

" Homosexual acts are banned in Singapore, along with harsh penalties for drug trafficking, and corporal punishment is used in the justice system.

Homosexual acts were a capital offence until 1861.

Homosexual acts between consenting adults also ceased to be regarded as a criminal offense.

Homosexual acts have never been explicitly outlawed in the country's history.

Homosexual acts were illegal from 1933 to 1993, and all those jailed for this were automatically considered petukhi.

* Homosexual acts

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.

Homosexual relations are a crime and face punishment in some Islamic countries such as Saudi Arabia, or Islamic Republics such as Iran.

Homosexual congregation members are to be accepted and not discriminated against, but are asked to remain celibate.

In a House of Lords debate in November 2000 he said: " Homosexual leanings are not to be condemned any more than schizophrenia or alcoholism, but they are sinful by Christian standards and those of many other churches.

* Homosexual men are the environmental product of a strong, overbearing mother and a weak, distant father.

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.

Homosexual relationships are also possible, as there are games with no specific gender lines (" all pairings ").

* Wildmon, D. ( 2009 ) Speechless: Silencing the Christians: How Secular Liberals and Homosexual Activists are Outlawing Christianity ( and Judaism ) to Force Their Sexual Agenda on America.

Homosexual relationships between both male and female characters are often hinted at, although seldom made explicit.

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

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.

Homosexual people do therefore not stand outside socialist society, and the civil rights are warranted to them exactly as to all other citizens.

Homosexual relationships are portrayed as acceptable, if rare.

Homosexual sex was decriminalized in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( FBiH ) in 1996 and in the Republika Srpska ( RS ) in 1998, by those two entities adopting their own criminal laws.

Homosexual activity is a crime and forbidden in most Muslim-majority countries.

Homosexual activity is a crime and forbidden in most Muslim-majority countries.

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.

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.

Also known as Killer in Drag ( from 1965 )-- as well as Blacklace Drag, The Twilight Land, Homosexual Generation, and translated as La Drag Asesina — this most famous Wood novel sees Glen from ‘ Glen or Glenda ’ working as a transvestite assassin.

ILGA was founded as the International Gay Association ( IGA ) on 8 August 1978 during the conference of the Campaign for Homosexual Equality in Coventry, England, at a meeting attended by 30 men representing 17 organisations from 14 countries.

Ayuquelén worked with the International Lesbian Information Service, the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association, and the Chilean gay rights group Movimiento de Integración y Liberación Homosexual ( Movement to Integrate and Liberate Homosexuals ) to remove the sodomy law still in force in Chile.

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

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.

He was told that Texas's anti-sodomy statute, the " Homosexual Conduct " law, made it a Class C misdemeanor if someone " engages in deviate sexual intercourse with another individual of the same sex ".

In 2003, the US Supreme Court struck down Texas ' " Homosexual Conduct " law in Lawrence v. Texas.

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.

However, many ( in particular the Campaign for Homosexual Equality and the Gay Liberation Front ) considered that the new law did not go far enough and blamed the HLRS for what they saw as a weakening of the Wolfenden Committee's proposals, calling the HLRS / Albany Trust a conformist outfit of " Uncle Toms ".

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

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.