* Homosexuality in speculative fiction

* Homosexuality in speculative fiction

* Homosexuality in speculative fiction

* Homosexuality in speculative fiction

Homosexuality is now an accepted and common feature of science fiction and fantasy literature, its prevalence due to the influence of lesbian-feminist and gay liberation movements.

Homosexuality refers to sexual / romantic attraction between members of the same sex and may or may not include romantic relationships.

Romans did not mark same-sex relations as " homosexual " if an adult male used a slave or prostitute, characteristically a youth, as his passive partner ( see Homosexuality in ancient Rome ); these relations, however, were expected to play a secondary role to marriage, within which institution an adult male demonstrated his masculine authority as head of household ( paterfamilias ).

In 1992, Joseph Nicolosi, Charles Socarides, and Benjamin Kaufman founded the National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality ( NARTH ), a mental health organization that opposes the mainstream medical view of homosexuality and aims to " make effective psychological therapy available to all homosexual men and women who seek change.

In Geoffrey Giles ' article " The Denial of Homosexuality: Same-Sex Incidents in Himmler's SS ", several cases are put forward where members of the Nazi SS are tried for homosexual offences.

Years later, Magnus Hirschfeld revisited the topic in his major work The Homosexuality of Men and Women ( 1914 ), discussing the social and legal potentials of several thousand homosexual men and women of rank revealing their sexual orientation to the police in order to influence legislators and public opinion.

Peter LaBarbera, a senior policy analyst of the anti-LGBT group Culture and Family Institute, later president of the anti-LGBT organization Americans for Truth about Homosexuality, said that the end result of Lawrence v. Texas was " like the Roe v. Wade of the homosexual issue.

Homosexuality usually remains culturally invisible ; when people who engage in homosexual behavior or who are identified as homosexual become visible, they are subject to attack by society.

In 1964, the committee released a pamphlet entitled Homosexuality and Citizenship in Florida, which drew criticism at the time for its use of explicit photographs of homosexual acts.

Homosexuality is one act, but you can ’ t say person who is homosexual is not a Buddhist.

" The Elastic Closet: A History of Homosexuality in France, 1942-present " Book about the history of homosexual movements in France ( sample chapter available online ).

* " The Elastic Closet: A History of Homosexuality in France, 1942-present " Book about the history of homosexual movements in France from World War II up through the passage of the PACS ( sample chapter available online ).

* In December 2006 a majority vote of the CJLS ( 13 members for, 12 against ) accepted a controversial responsum which allows homosexual Jews to become rabbis and cantors, " Homosexuality, Human Dignity, and Halakhah " by Rabbis Elliot N. Dorff, Daniel S. Nevins, and Avram I. Reisner.

* On December, 2006, a majority vote of the CJLS ( 13 members for ) also adopted a responsum " Homosexuality Revisited " by Rabbi Joel Roth maintaining the traditional prohibitions on homosexual conduct.

#" Homosexuality "-A member may not be homosexual.

Homosexuality is regarded as one of the possible expressions of human desire and Hindu mythic stories have portrayed homosexual experience as natural and joyful.

Pope Benedict XVI in his book " Light of the World " appears to state that Homosexuality and the Priesthood are completely incompatible " The Congregation for Education issued a decision a few years ago to the effect that homosexual candidates cannot become priests because their sexual orientation estranges them from the proper sense of paternity, from the intrinsic nature of priestly being.

" This single reference in verse 22 has, in recent years, made the interpretation of this verse a focus of debate among Christians and Jews regarding homosexual activity ( see Homosexuality and Christianity and Jewish views of homosexuality ).

Homosexuality was later replaced in the 7th edition of DSM-II, instead categorized as a ‘ Sexual orientation disturbance .’ The intent was to have a label that applied only to those homosexual individuals who were bothered by their sexual orientation.

Homosexuality was little understood or not understood at all in fact by religious heterosexual society, and it was considered an illness or disease and being homosexual was considered a " sin " and was viewed upon by society at large as a very negative thing.

He has written a seminal work on Greek mythology entitled Homosexuality in Greek Myth, translated into English two years later by Beacon Press.

In his article Homosexuality and Hinduism, Arvind Sharma expresses his doubt over the common English translation of words like kliba into " eunuch " as follows: " The limited practice of castration in India raises another point significant for the rest of the discussion, namely, whether rendering a word such as " kliba " as " eunuch " regularly is correct ..."

The cover photograph for Cameron's pamphlet Child Molestation and Homosexuality depicted " a young boy being pulled into a men's bathroom ", while Murder, Violence and Homosexuality showed " a little girl cowering beneath an arm wielding an ax ".

The Journal of Homosexuality is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering research into sexual practices and gender roles in their cultural, historical, interpersonal, and modern social contexts.

( On the other hand, a similar position was claimed to justify the inclusion of " Sexual orientation disturbance ( Homosexuality )" in DSM II and " Ego-dystonic homosexuality " in DSM III, before disorders related to homosexuality were finally dropped completely.

The main organization advocating secular forms of conversion therapy is the National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality ( NARTH ), which often partners with religious groups.

Freud ‘ s main discussion of female homosexuality was the 1920 paper “ The Psychogenesis of a Case of Homosexuality in a Woman “, which described his analysis of a young woman who had entered therapy because her parents were concerned that she was a lesbian.

Abraham Brill in 1913 wrote “ The Conception of Homosexuality ”, which he published in the Journal of the American Medical Association and read before the American Medical Association ’ s annual meeting, where it was criticised by several doctors.

Irving Bieber and his colleagues in 1962 published Homosexuality: A Psychoanalytic Study of Male Homosexuals, which concluded that " although this change may be more easily accomplished by some than by others, in our judgment a heterosexual shift is a possibility for all homosexuals who are strongly motivated to change.

Lawrence Hatterer in 1970 published Changing Homosexuality in the Male, which advocated a therapy based on simplified psychoanalytic ideas and behavior modification techniques.

In 1965 Ellis published a book entitled Homosexuality: Its Causes and Cure, which partly saw homosexuality as a pathology and therefore a condition to be cured.

“ We view all forms of sexual intimacy that occur outside the covenant of heterosexual marriage as sinful distortions of the holiness and beauty God intended for it .” “ Homosexuality is one means by which human sexuality is perverted .” " We deplore any action or statement that would seem to imply compatibility between Christian morality and the practice of homosexuality .” http :// www. nazarene. org / files / docs / Perspectives_Homosexuality. pdf

During the debate on decriminalisation of Homosexuality in the Dáil in 1993, he agreed with a statement by Fine Gael TD, Brendan McGahon which reads: " Homosexuality is a departure from normality and while homosexuals deserve our compassion they do not deserve our tolerance " and who described homosexuals as being " like lefthand drivers driving on the right-hand side of the road.

He also published a work entitled Child Molestation and Homosexuality, the front page of which showed a middle-aged man attempting to lure a child for sexual purposes.

The Christian Institute's activities resulted in censure by The Charity Commission in 2001, for breaching rules limiting overt political campaigning by charities, by " publishing a 100-page report, Homosexuality and Young People ( 1998 ), which argued against reforming anti-homosexual law with no reference at all to a Christian view.

" The Qur ' an also says that Homosexuality too is Haraam ( sinful ) and it is against the natural inclination which God has placed in man, whereby the male is inclined towards female and vice versa.

Gay students at Brigham Young University in 1977 widely distributed an anonymously published pamphlet called Prologue: An Examination of the Mormon Attitude Towards Homosexuality which described the aversion therapy, persecution of gays, and irregular behavior by the administration and faculty of Brigham Young University such as entrapment by the BYU security forces, recruiting student spies, and recruiting young Mormon women to attempt to sexually convert gays to heterosexuality by encouraging gay men to get married to these women in order to " cure " their homosexuality.

* Stance on Abortion and Homosexuality: During a plenary session of the European Parliament, José Ignacio Salafranca Sanchez-Neyra orally introduced an amendment to promote the Brazilian resolution on sexual identity and sexual orientation, which aims to secure equal rights for all people regardless of sexual orientation.