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.

According to the 2003 draft entry for " felch " in the Oxford English Dictionary, the earliest occurrence of the word in print appears to have been in The Argot of the Homosexual Subculture by Ronald A. Farrell in 1972.

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

* Lesbian activist Anna Rueling used the term in her 1904 speech, " What Interest does the Women's Movement have in Solving the Homosexual Problem?

After the Sexual Offences Act 1967 came into force, the London-based Homosexual Law Reform Society was thought by many to have achieved its aims.

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

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.

Homosexual behavior between males has been observed.

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

Boas elaborates, " Homosexual affection ... has ( as has been seen ) a special attraction for Marlowe.

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!

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.

The following subgroups form part of the GGB: the Quimbanda-Dudu Group of Black Gays of Bahia ; the Gay Stamp Association of Brazil ; the Brazilian Association of Parents and Friends of Homosexuals ; the Center for Homosexual Studies.

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.

British sociologist Mary McIntosh reflected the enthusiasm of Europeans for labeling theory in her 1968 study, " The Homosexual Role.

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.

Homophile organizations elsewhere include Arcadie ( 1954 ) in France and the British Homosexual Law Reform Society ( founded 1958 ).

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 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.

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.

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 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 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 ).

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

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 ".

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

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.