" While Frank Miller has described the relationship between Batman and the Joker as a " homophobic nightmare ," he views the character as sublimating his sexual urges into crimefighting, concluding, " He'd be much healthier if he were gay.

While the gay subculture grew, with official and underground press alike discussing the subject of homosexuality, the traditionally conservative attitudes towards sexuality were used by the secret police to harass and put pressure on individuals.

While visiting Harrington in Paris, Whale went to some gay bars.

While groups try to promote lesbian issues and concerns, they also face misogynistic attitudes from gay men and homophobic views from heterosexual women.

While it is considered by most as the gay area of San Diego with its gay bars and dance clubs, the overall population of the area has only gotten more and more diverse with the rise in condominium projects.

While suits seeking monetary compensation have failed, in 2002 the German government issued an official apology to the gay community.

While gay men and straight men showed similar psychological interest in casual sex on markers of sociosexuality, gay men showed a larger number of partners in behaviour expressing this interest ( proposed to be due to a difference in opportunity ).

While there, he frequented high-class gay bars and prostituted himself to wealthy older men.

While some gay or lesbian couples may comprise a butch-identified individual and a femme-identified individual, not all gays or lesbians identify as " butch " or " femme.

While biphobia and homophobia are distinct phenomenons, they do share some traits: attraction to one's own gender being a part of bisexuality, the heterosexist view of heterosexuality as the only “ proper ” attraction or lifestyle apply to bisexual people as well as to gay people.

While the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary notes first use of the term heterosexism as having occurred some time in 1972, the first published use was in 1971 by gay rights activist, Craig Rodwell.

* Gender atypical behavior: While this is not a disorder, gay men may face difficulties due to being more likely to display gender atypical behavior than heterosexual men.

While in prison, Begbie received packages of gay porn, sent from Sick Boy.

* While retired South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu and his successor, Archbishop Njongonkulu Winston Ndungane, fail to see what " all the fuss " is over the ordination of a gay bishop, other African Anglicans suggest that their churches may sever relations with the American dioceses that supported the election of a gay priest as bishop if what they called the " path of deviation " is not changed.

While the memoir was initially unsuccessful, it was rediscovered in the late 1960s and widely read in the underground gay community.

While not much is known about her life, she was an important part of the gay subculture of early 18th century England.

While homosexuality has been cited as an issue in both cases, the circumstances were different and in contrast: Shepard was an openly gay man who was attacked by two heterosexual men, while Dirkhising was raped by two men who were described as " lovers " in a police affidavit.

While staying within the cinematic language of the period, Haynes updates the sexual and racial politics, showing scenarios ( an inter-racial love affair and gay relationships ) that would not have been permissible in Sirk's era.

While open to anyone, the parties generally are viewed as social events for gay men.

While open every weekend beginning in September, The Saint's once monthly parties became marathon events that drew gay men from around the world.

While Respect included opposition to discrimination based on gender and sexual orientation in its founding declaration, critics claim Galloway has tended to avoid Commons votes involving equal rights for gay people-although he did vote to lower the age of consent for gay people in England and Wales to sixteen in 2000, earning him an invitation to open a new Lesbian and Gay centre in Glasgow.

While being a Middle Comic poet, Alexis was contemporary with several leading figures of New Comedy, such as Philippides, Philemon, Diphilus, and even Menander.

While living at his rented villa on Lake Merritt in Oakland, London met poet George Sterling and in time they became best friends.

While a poet rhyming is not evidence of mental illness, disorganized speech that impedes the patient's ability to communicate is a disorder in itself, often seen in schizophrenia.

While she is best known for her work as a novelist, she is also a poet, having published fifteen books of poetry to date.

While some people consider the inclusion of jelly to be a recent variation, the earliest known recipe to include jelly dates from 1747, and the poet Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote of trifles containing jelly in 1861.

While in prison, Hernández produced an extraordinary amount of poetry, much of it in the form of simple songs, which the poet collected in his papers and sent to his wife and others.

While her writing was not published formally in her lifetime ( except as Schoolcraft appropriated it under his own name ), Jane Johnston Schoolcraft has been recognized as " the first Native American literary writer, the first known Indian woman writer, the first known Indian poet, the first known poet to write poems in a Native American language, and the first known American Indian to write out traditional Indian stories.

While at Lawrenceville, he met the future Pulitzer Prize winning poet James Merrill ; their friendship and rivalry inspired the literary ambitions of both.

While in the service of the Medici in Florence, Isaac wrote a lament on the death of Lorenzo de ' Medici, Quis dabit capiti meo aquam ( 1492 ), which set words by Lorenzo's favorite poet, Angelo Poliziano.

While there, she studied under both Bernard O ' Donoghue, the Whitbread prize-winning poet, and Robert J. C. Young, the eminent post-colonial theorist.

While admitting the influence of extraliterary experience on every poet, he argues that " the poet in a poet " is inspired to write by reading another poet's poetry and will tend to produce work that is derivative of existing poetry, and, therefore, weak.

While Hardy wrote poetry throughout his life, and regarded himself primarily as a poet, his first collection was not published until 1898, so that initially he gained fame as the author of such novels as, Far from the Madding Crowd ( 1874 ), The Mayor of Casterbridge ( 1886 ), Tess of the d ' Urbervilles ( 1891 ), and Jude the Obscure ( 1895 ).

While in Paris, Césaire met Léopold Senghor, then a poet but later Senegal's first President.

While living in Montreal, Quebec in 1966, Fraser and poet Leroy Johnson founded the literary magazine Intercourse: Contemporary Canadian Writing ( see Intercourse magazine ).

While Gropius's military duties were still keeping him absent, Alma met and began an affair with Prague-born poet and writer Franz Werfel in the fall of 1917.

While in Egypt, Lady Gregory had an affair with the English poet Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, during which she wrote a series of love poems, A Woman's Sonnets.

While at hospital, Owen met and became close friends with another poet, Siegfried Sassoon.

While serving at Petawawa, Layton met Betty Sutherland, an accomplished painter ( and later poet ), and a half-sister to actor Donald Sutherland.

While in school, Kunstler was an avid poet, and represented Yale in the Glascock Prize competition at Mount Holyoke College.

While Guarini's work may be seen as lacking the deep feeling and sentiment of another poet at the Estensi court, Torquato Tasso, it was precisely this quality which commended it to musical setting at a time when excessive emotionalism had become unfashionable.

While The Song of Roland was among the first French epics to be translated into German ( by Konrad der Pfaffe as the Rolandslied, c. 1170 ), and the German poet Wolfram von Eschenbach based his ( incomplete ) 13th century epic Willehalm ( consisting of seventy-eight manuscripts ) on the Aliscans, a work in the cycle of William of Orange ( Eschenbach's work had a great success in Germany ), these remained isolated examples.