" 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 a gay poet Grzegorz Musiał could publish officially, Jerzy Andrzejewski's last novel dealing with the subject of homosexuality was censored.

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 the self-designation of hobbyists as hackers is acknowledged by all three kinds of hackers, and the computer security hackers accept all uses of the word, people from the programmer subculture consider the computer intrusion related usage incorrect, and emphasize the difference between the two by calling security breakers “ crackers ” ( analogous to a safecracker ).

While this perceived inauthenticity is viewed with scorn and contempt by members of the subculture, the definition of the term and to whom it should be applied is subjective.

While the popularity of nationally grown rap in France grew with the presence of MC Solaar, his involvement in the overall French hip hop subculture is non-existent as many consider his work to be in the traditional vein of French pop and not of the politically-minded, mostly African-influenced hip hop aesthetic of France.

While they did not suffer like their contemporaries in Germany, the Hamburg and Berlin based Swingjugend ( many of whom were imprisoned in concentration camps ) and the working class, mostly Cologne based Edelweiss Pirates ( some of whom were hanged by the Nazis ), the Zazou subculture represented an important dissident minority in a society of widespread complicity and acquiescence.

While the style-obsessed British mod youth subculture of the 1960s prized the glamorous, metropolitan image of scooters, many skinheads and scooterboys viewed their bikes as simply a form of transportation.

While the subculture allows them to have a space of their own, the subculture magazines offer an idealized relation with the teen idols, always implying a subordination of the female to the male, anticipating that the subordination will keep being present in their future relationships, and presenting an idealized form of marriage.

While many aspects of IRC subculture are common across the entire community, many aspects are specific to particular networks, channels, or groups of channels.

While their powers grew over time, it is not always easy to distinguish the difference between their powers, and those of the Roman Censors.

While maintaining much diversity in class, race, and age, it became harder and harder for those who grew up in the city to be able to afford to stay.

While Axbridge grew in importance as a centre for cloth manufacturing in the Tudor period and gained a charter from King John, Cheddar remained a more dispersed mining and dairy-farming village.

While no earthquake or tsunami followed the test, the opposition grew when the U. S. announced they would detonate a bomb five times more powerful than the first one.

While the settlement today referred to as Hedeby / Haithabu lies on the south side of the Schlei inlet, the settlement that grew up at around the same time on the north side has had a continuous history of habitation to modern times, and has now grown into the town known as Schleswig and given its name to the surrounding province.

While it grew out of the medieval isorhythmic motet, the Renaissance composers of the motet generally abandoned the use of a repeated figure as a cantus firmus.

While this simple method worked well in a small community of Christians unified by persecution, as the congregation grew in size, the acclamation of a new bishop was fraught with division, and rival claimants and a certain class hostility between patrician and plebeian candidates unsettled some episcopal elections.

While still in his early thirties, Pak Subuh's reputation as someone with spiritual insight apparently grew, and people went to him to be ' opened '.

While the towns were only a mile apart, Toledo grew by 359 % in ten years while Manhattan only grew by 148 % because of the change in the canal outlet.

While Smyth, Helwys and Murton were General Baptists, a Calvinistic Baptist variety grew out of some Separatists around 1630.

While the far-right National Front grew, taking advantage of a proportional representation electoral law, he signed an electoral platform with the Giscardian ( and more or less Christian Democrat ) party Union for French Democracy ( UDF ).

While Jung worked on his Wandlungen und Symbole der Libido ( Psychology of the Unconscious ), tensions grew between Freud and Jung, mostly due to their disagreements over the nature of libido and religion.

While public spending on infrastructure grew by 1. 7 % annually between 1956 and 2004, it has remained constant as a share of GDP since early 1980s.

While Caesar and Crassus were lifelong allies, Crassus and Pompey disliked each other and Pompey grew increasingly envious of Caesar's spectacular successes in the Gallic Wars.

While the ethnic based army was generally successful on the battlefields, they began to have negative effects on the Fatimid's internal politics, traditionally the Berber element of the army had the strongest sway over political affairs, but as the Turkish element grew more powerful they began to challenge this, and eventually by 1020 serious riots began to break out among the Black African troops who were fighting back against a Berber / Turks Alliance.

While the Pandanallur style, Tanjore or Thanjavur, Vazhuvoor, Mysore, Kancheepuram were based on the art of rajadasis and are exoteric in nature, some others, like the Melattur style and Balasaraswati's style grew out of the devadasis ' distinctly different esoteric art.

While visitor numbers grew to around 700, 000, by 2005, and partly due to the negative impact on US tourism of 9 / 11, visitor numbers at Graceland had reportedly declined to around 600, 000 due to the rough surrounding neighborhood.

While he appreciated the support from fans and the business opportunities it created, he grew increasingly frustrated over time as the attention intruded on his private life.

While the port of Redwood City, to the south, and the town of Belmont, to the north, both grew quickly in the late 19th century, San Carlos ' growth was much slower.

While it grew to be a relatively prosperous and busy hub of activity throughout the end of the 19th century, it was not incorporated as a city until February 15, 1908.

While the Hanover Academy grew exponentially over the ensuing years, the seminary stagnated ; the two entities split in 1836, and in 1841 the seminary moved to New Albany, Indiana.

While Omaha grew from a few hundred in population in 1855 to 104, 000 in 1890, Bellevue's numbers continued to slide until the city was near extinction.