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

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

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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.

Homosexual concentration camp prisoners were not acknowledged as victims of Nazi persecution.

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.

The Report of the Departmental Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution ( better known as the Wolfenden report, after Lord Wolfenden, the chairman of the committee ) was published in Britain on 4 September 1957 after a succession of well-known men, including Lord Montagu, Michael Pitt-Rivers and Peter Wildeblood, were convicted of homosexual offences.

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.

Homosexual men, he said, were not by nature effeminate, and he pointed out that many of the great heroes of history were homosexual.

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 " and " heterosexual " were thus not categories of Roman sexuality, and no words exist in Latin that would precisely translate these concepts.

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 ).

" Homosexual " and " heterosexual " were thus not categories of Roman sexuality, and no words exist in Latin that would precisely translate these concepts.

Amongst Gay News's early " Special Friends " were Graham Chapman of Monty Python's Flying Circus, his partner David Sherlock, and Antony Grey, secretary of the UK Homosexual Law Reform Society from 1962 to 1970.

This position and the position of Men's Officer were created at the same time as the position of Homosexual Officer was disbanded along with the campus " queer space ".

200 Participants Reporting a Change from Homosexual to Heterosexual Orientation ", a study of attempts to change homosexual orientation through ex-gay ministries and conversion therapy, at the American Psychiatric Association's convention in New Orleans.

Intertwining his religious and political views, " Save Ulster from Sodomy " was a campaign launched by Paisley in 1977, in opposition to the Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform ( Northern Ireland ), established in 1974.

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.

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 ).

We have had support from the women's movement, from the CHA Homosexual Argentino, even the transsexual groups " ( Arditti 93 ).

( Reuters ) Homosexual couples win reprieve when the judge declines to stop San Francisco from granting them marriage licenses.

Homosexual behavior is best known from social species.

* 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.

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.

The Homosexual and His Society: A View from Within.

Homosexual and transgender Hindus commonly identify with and worship the various Hindu deities connected with gender diversity such as Ardhanarisvara ( the hermaphrodite form of Shiva ); Aravan ( a hero whom Krishna married after becoming a woman ); Ayyappa ( a god born from the union of Shiva and Mohini, a female incarnation of Vishnu ); Bahuchara-devi ( a goddess connected with transsexuality and eunuchism ); Bhagavati-devi ( a Hindu goddess associated with crossdressing ); Bhagiratha Maharaja ( an Indian king born of two female parents ); Caitanya Mahaprabhu ( an incarnation of Radha and Krishna combined ); Chandi-Chamunda ( twin warrior goddesses ); Gadadhara ( an incarnation of Radha in male form ); Gangamma-devi ( a goddess connected with crossdressing and disguises ); Harihara ( Shiva and Vishnu combined ); Kartikeya ; Vallabhavardhana, Yellamma-devi and countless others.

* Jeffrey Weeks, Coming out: Homosexual politics in Britain, from the nineteenth century to the present, London, 1977.

* 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 – from the Greek ὁμός ( homos ) meaning " same " and the Latin sexus meaning " gender " ( This example is remarked on in Tom Stoppard's The Invention of Love, with A. E. Housman's character saying " Homosexuality?

Pages Passed from Hand to Hand: The Hidden Tradition of Homosexual Literature in English from 1748 to 1914.

He then co-founded a militant group, the Committee for Homosexual Freedom, with Gale Whittington -- a young man who had been fired from States Steamship Company for being openly gay, after his photo appeared in the Berkley Barb, next to the headline " HOMOS, DON ' T HIDE IT!

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: ).

One issue had a red-letter headline reading " Walt Disney was Homosexual: Editor Reveals Facts !," the cover story included an affidavit from Dakota, attesting that he had been paid to perform a sex act with Disney.

* Pages Passed from Hand to Hand: The Hidden Tradition of Homosexual Literature in English from 1748 to 1914 edited and with an introduction by Mark Mitchell and David Leavitt, Chatto & Windus 1998