Homosexual behavior in animals refers to the documented evidence of homosexual and bisexual behavior in various ( non-human ) species.

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

Liberalisation has been championed by figures like Mary Robinson, a radical feminist senator who became President of Ireland, and David Norris, who led the Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform.

In December 2004 Independent Senator David Norris, who had been central to the 1970s and 1980s Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform tabled a Private Member's Bill on Civil Partnerships in the Seanad.

In July 1967 he wrote to Antony Grey, who was secretary of the Homosexual Law Reform Society ( HLRS ) in London.

Advertisements inviting people who supported the Wolfenden Report to contact the Homosexual Law Reform Society resulted in Tony Dyson being joined by Antony Grey, businessman Nigel Bryant and architect Duncan Wright.

Merle Miller ( May 17, 1919 – June 10, 1986 ) was an American writer, novelist, and best-selling author who came out of the closet in an article in the New York Times Magazine on January 17, 1971, titled " What It Means to Be a Homosexual ".

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!

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.

Homosexual agenda ( or gay agenda ) is a term originated by some conservative Christians in the United States to describe the advocacy of cultural acceptance and normalization of non-heterosexual orientations and relationships.

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 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 men tend to exhibit more female-like patterns in the amygdala than do heterosexual males, just as homosexual females tend to show more male-like patterns in the amygdala than do heterosexual women.

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

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

On other issues he was more moderate, being a member of the Tory Campaign for Homosexual Equality for a time ( he resigned over a controversial article which suggested that Prince Charles should embrace Prince Edward in order to advance their campaign ).

The correspondence that this letter generated helped bring together supporters of the Wolfenden Report and this led to the Homosexual Law Reform Society being founded on 12 May 1958 with members including Victor Gollancz, Stephen Spender, and MP Kenneth Younger.

Homosexual men therefore, needed places where they could meet other homosexual men, to fulfill their same-sex attractions without potentially being caught by authorities.

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.

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.

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.

* Homosexual Law Reform Act 1986 – legalised homosexual relations

As evidence, SPLC cited a 1999 publication by the FRC, Homosexual Activists Work to Normalize Sex With Boys, which claimed: “ one of the primary goals of the homosexual rights movement is to abolish all age of consent laws and to eventually recognize pedophiles as the ‘ prophets ’ of a new sexual order .” The report said FRC senior research fellows Tim Dailey ( hired in 1999 ) and Peter Sprigg ( 2001 ) had both " pushed false accusations linking gay men to pedophilia ".

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

" 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 ).

Homosexual panic is a term, first coined by psychiatrist Edward J. Kempf in 1920, describing an acute, brief reactive psychosis suffered by the target of unwanted homosexual advances.

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 Law Reform Society was an organisation that campaigned in the United Kingdom for changes in the laws that criminalised homosexual relations between men.

* 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.

For example, the influence of homosexual themes and concerns began to enter his work ; as in Shameful Vice in 1994, and more explicitly in Seventeen Immortal Homosexual Poets in 1997.

Dan Slater of the Los Angeles Homosexual Information Center said, " There is no such thing as a homosexual lifestyle.

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 ".

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.

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.

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

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

* Homosexual acts between consenting adults are decriminalized in Queensland.

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

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

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

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

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.