This has made her a true pioneer and a beloved friend of the members of the Brazilian Homosexual Movement ( Movimento Homossexual Brasileiro ) and of the all-encompassing Queer community of Brazil.

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.

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 ).

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.

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 acts between consenting adults are decriminalized in Queensland.

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

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 ").

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

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.

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 ).

* 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.

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

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 ".

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 2008, a group of Lesbos islanders lost a court case against the Homosexual and Lesbian Community of Greece.

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.

They met in London in September when Dunn asked about setting up a Scottish branch of the HLRS ; Grey was less than enthusiastic, having experienced difficulties with the much more radical and grass-roots-based North-Western Homosexual Law Reform Committee, which was later to become the Campaign for Homosexual Equality ( CHE ).

In 1958 he was, along with Bertrand Russell, one of a group of notables to establish the Homosexual Law Reform Society.

The Bible and Homosexual Practice: Texts and Hermeneutics.

The Bible and Homosexual Practice: Texts and Hermeneutics.

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

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

* 1986 – The Parliament of New Zealand passes the Homosexual Law Reform Act legalising homosexuality in New Zealand.

Homosexual behavior is absolutely prohibited and constitutes an abomination.

On July 22, 2010, a " Statement of Principles on the Place of Jews with a Homosexual Orientation in Our Community " was released.

Homosexual subculture disappeared in Germany with the rise of the Nazis in 1933.

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 Myth of the Modern Homosexual: Queer History and the Search for Cultural Unity, Cassell.

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

Coincidentally, just as Mary McAleese replaced Mary Robinson as Reid Professor of Law in Trinity, and would succeed her to the Irish presidency, so Robinson replaced McAleese in the Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform.

The Homosexual in America: A Subjective Approach.

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.

Charles Socarides ’ s first book, The Overt Homosexual, was published in 1968.

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.

Homosexual behaviour was also documented among soldiers at the front.

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

** The Homosexual Offences ( Northern Ireland ) Order 1982 comes into effect, decriminalising homosexuality in Northern Ireland for those aged 18 or older.