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 had to wear the Pink Triangle.

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.

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.

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 men are the environmental product of a strong, overbearing mother and a weak, distant father.

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.

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 ".

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.

On March 28, 1969 in San Francisco, Leo Laurence ( the editor of Vector, magazine of the United States ' largest homophile organization, the Society for Individual Rights ) called for " the Homosexual Revolution of 1969 ," exhorting gay men and lesbians to Join the Black Panthers and other left-wing groups and to " come out " en masse.

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: ).

The Availables: The Men in Your Life " Gurley Brown suggests that the single girl make a list of all the men in her life and then slot them into the following categories: " The Eligibles ", " The Eligibles-But-Who-Needs-Them ", " The Don Juans ", " The Married Man ", " The Homosexual ", " The Divorcing Man " and " The Younger Man ".

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

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.

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

She was quoted by Jamie Kabler in " The Andy Warhol Diaries " as having said to Ronald Reagan Jr., regarding his exclusive interview with Warhol's " Interview " ( magazine ), " How can you work for that Homosexual publication?

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

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.

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 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 acts were a capital offence until 1861.

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.

Homosexual acts were illegal from 1933 to 1993, and all those jailed for this were automatically considered petukhi.

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 ".

* Out in Nature: Homosexual Behaviour in the Animal Kingdom, a documentary by Stéphane Alexandresco, Bertrand Loyer and Jessica Menendez

* I, Pierre Seel, Deported Homosexual: A Memoir of Nazi Terror ( 1995 ) by Pierre Seel.

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.

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.

* The Mattachine Society ( 1950 – 1987 ) and the Mattachine Review ( 1955 – 1966 ); Homosexual Citizen, ( published by the Washington chapter, 1966 –?

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 sex was decriminalised by an act of parliament in 1993.

" 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.

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.

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.

During the 1970s, the Radical Party succeeded in starting up a vast movement in favour of civil rights by setting up the Women's Liberation Movement ( Movimento di Liberazione della Donna, MLD ), by supporting the activities of the Italian Centre for Sterilisation and Abortion ( Centro Italiano Sterilizzazioni e Aborti ) and by giving its support to the Italian Revolutionary Homosexual United Front ( Fronte Unitario Omosessuale Rivoluzionario Italiano, FUORI ), one of the first Italian gay associations.

Headlining the campaign was the slogan, " Corporate America is Being BLACKMAILED by the Radical Homosexual Agenda ".

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.