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

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

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 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.

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.

* Homosexual acts between consenting adults are decriminalized in Queensland.

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

" Martin and Lyon joined the newly formed Council on Religion and the Homosexual ( CRH ) to develop a dialogue between organized religion and gays and lesbians.

Homosexual behavior between males has been observed.

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.

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 ).

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

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.

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 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.

After the legalisation of male homosexuality in the UK with the implementation of the Sexual Offences Act 1967 other more political organisations had appeared, such as the Campaign for Homosexual Equality which focuses on equal rights for all homosexuals.

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 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 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 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.

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.

" In 1961, Donald Webster Cory published his landmark The Homosexual in America, exclaiming, " Society has handed me a mask to wear ... Everywhere I go, at all times and before all sections of society, I pretend.

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.

In 1968, Kusama presided over the happening Homosexual Wedding at the Church of Self-obliteration in 33 Walker Street in New York, and performed alongside Fleetwood Mac and Country Joe and the Fish at the Fillmore East, New York City.

* 12 — The first memorial to the LGBT victims of the Nazis, a pink granite stone monument at the former Neuengamme concentration camp inscribed " Dedicated to the Homosexual victims of National Socialism, 1985 ", is unveiled.

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.

* Papers of the Scottish Minorities Group and Scottish Homosexual Rights Group held at LSE Archives

* Catalogue of the papers of the Campaign for Homosexual Equality at the Archives Division of the London School of Economics.

In July 2009 she was awarded the first Derek Oyston Award in recognition of her lifetime ’ s campaigning for LGBT rights at the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association ( GALHA ) and the 40th anniversary of the Campaign for Homosexual Equality ( CHE ).

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 ".

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.