" 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 between both male and female characters are often hinted at, although seldom made explicit.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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

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 " 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 ".

However, many ( in particular the Campaign for Homosexual Equality and the Gay Liberation Front ) considered that the new law did not go far enough and blamed the HLRS for what they saw as a weakening of the Wolfenden Committee's proposals, calling the HLRS / Albany Trust a conformist outfit of " Uncle Toms ".

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 ".

* 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.

* " Homosexual panic " and the mercenary killing – AIC Research and Public Policy Series ( Australia ).

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

* Homosexual Law Reform Society ( 1958 – 1970 when it was renamed as the Sexual Law Reform Society ).

* The Homosexual in America: A Subjective Approach ( introduction ).

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 ).

" 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 ).

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

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 Early Homosexual Emancipation Movement in Germany ( 1975 ).

In 1978, SMG News became Gay Scotland and in October the SMG changed its name to the Scottish Homosexual Rights Group ( SHRG ).

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 ).

CHE grew out of the North Western branch of the Homosexual Law Reform Society ( HLRS ), the North Western Homosexual Law Reform Committee ( NWHLRC ).

In 1971 CHE's name changed once more, to the Campaign for Homosexual Equality ( CHE ).

The Albany Trust was founded in the United Kingdom as a registered charity in May 1958 to complement the Homosexual Law Reform Society ( HLRS ).

What It Means To Be a Homosexual ( 1971 ).

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: ).

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 ).