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 are regarded as criminal and forbidden in most Islamic countries according to Sharia law.

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.

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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.

" Martin and Lyon joined the newly formed Council on Religion and the Homosexual ( CRH ) to develop a dialogue between organized religion and gays and lesbians.

Homosexual behavior between males has been observed.

Homosexual relationships were not considered indicative of effeminacy, and were sometimes seen as essential to the proper development of a male citizen ( like the relationship between as erastes and eromenos ).

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.

Gay News was a pioneering fortnightly newspaper in the United Kingdom founded in June 1972 in a collaboration between former members of the Gay Liberation Front and members of the Campaign for Homosexual Equality ( CHE ).

* 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.

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

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.

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

Homosexual behaviour was also documented among soldiers at the front.

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

Traces of identity politics can also be found in the early writings of the modern gay movement such as Dennis Altman's Homosexual: Liberation / Oppression ( 1971 1st ed ), Jeffrey Week's Coming Out: Homosexual Politics in Britain from the Nineteenth Century to the Present ( 1977: London: Quarter ), and Ken Plummer's ed The Making of the Modern Homosexual ( 1981: London Hutchinson ).

Homosexual and transgender individuals were also common among other pre-conquest civilizations in Latin America, such as the Aztecs, Mayans, Quechuas, Moches, Zapotecs, and the Tupinambá of Brazil.

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

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.

In the past, it has also been known as the Scottish Minorities Group and the Scottish Homosexual Rights Group.

Jackie also went on to become an Executive member of the Campaign for Homosexual Equality and the Gay Liberation Front along with other former MRG members such as Maureen Duffy.

Boswell, in his essay The Church and the Homosexual, attributes Christianity's denunciations of " homosexuality " to a supposedly rising intolerance in Europe throughout the 12th century, which he claims was also reflected in other ways.

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 ".

Bret Hinsch in chapter 6 of his book ' Passions of the Cut Sleeve: the Male Homosexual Tradition in China ' has detailed evidence, derived from the works of literati Li Yu and Shen De Fu, of institutionalised gay marriage practices amongst Hokkien men in Ming dynasty China ( see also: ).

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

" The event includes performance art and queer-bash make-overs and is also referred to as ' The Annual Festival of Homosexual Misery '.

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.

According to Charles Curran, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith systematically attempted to silence authors also critical of teachings on homosexuality, citing the " highlighting " of errors in McNeill's The Church and the Homosexual.

" Homosexual relationships today ," Rabbi Artson says, " should not be compared to the ancient world.

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 would make advances to the love-shy men, but these advances would be rejected.

Homosexual magazines tend to be tailored to particular segments of the population, such as Badi, which features younger adult males, Samson, devoted to chubby men, and G-men, featuring muscular men.

* 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.

When he learned that the Out article was to be published, Terry pre-empted Jamiel by writing an essay, My Prodigal Son, the Homosexual, in which he writes of pain and disappointment, blames Jamiel's homosexuality and other troubles on his childhood experiences, and contends that much of the Out Magazine article is false and was written by other people.

The NWHLRC, which in 1967 had already fallen out with Antony Grey of HLRS / Albany Trust over the northerners ' wish to press ahead with the establishment of gay clubs, felt on the contrary that much remained to be done, and named itself the Committee for Homosexual Equality ( CHE ) in 1969 with a view to becoming a national body for England and Wales ( in close co-operation with its counterpart north of the border, the Scottish Minorities Group ( SMG )).

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

Homosexual places emphasis on sexuality and is to be avoided when describing a person.

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.

They gained notoriety in the underground " punk " scene with songs like " Come Back, Traci " ( a tribute to the underage porn queen Traci Lords ), " I Don't Want to be a Homosexual ", " Jani is a Nazi ", " I Want ' em Dead " and " So Fucked up ".