Written in the early fifth century, Saint Augustine’s biblical commentary on II Corinthians and Romans, On the Spirit and the Letter, became an important interpretive work for Luther and other Protestant writers. All who followed Augustine in the...

‘Homosexuality’ and ‘homosexual’ are terms of relatively recent vintage. It would have been meaningless for a man to claim ‘I am a homosexual’ prior to 1869 as the term did not exist. This is not to say that sexual...

Homosexuality Enduring emotional, romantic, or sexual attraction to individuals of one's own gender. For most of history, open discussions about homosexuality—sexual attraction to people of one's own gender—have been taboo....

. The exuberant homosexuality for which the ancient Gauls, like other Celts, were famed seems to have survived or even increased during the Roman occupation but was dampened by Christian conversion. The Germanic invasions demolished imperial and...

Homosexuality can refer to both attraction or sexual behavior between organisms of the same sex, or to a sexual orientation. When describing the latter, it refers to enduring sexual and romantic attraction towards those of the same sex, but not...

Forgotten London new wavers emerge from collector hell THE HOMOSEXUALS Astral Glamour Hyped2Death The Homosexuals lived and played in London in the late '70s and early '80s, and the evidence suggests that they were magnificent-as potent and visionary as Wire...

HOMOSEXUALITY Columnist should become enlightened Thursday, May 11, 2000 Columnist Cal Thomas lamented that if heterosexuals can be "transformed from promiscuity to fidelity," then why, oh why, can't homosexuals transform ("Don't attack those who think gay-rights activists are wrong," May 6)....

In the following chapter from his book, Craft studies Tennyson's In Memoriam as a document of homosexual desire, looking at the poem in relation to its social context and contemporary notions of sexuality.

In the excerpt that follows, Dowling investigates the culture that prevailed at Oxford University in the late nineteenth century. She contends that a Greek or Hellenistic idea of aesthetics advocated by many of the school's leading scholars—most notably Benjamin Jowett—facilitated a more positive sense of homosexual desire among such prominent Oxford students as Wilde, Pater, and Symonds. She notes that other scholars, including Matthew Arnold, attempted to valorize the Greek aesthetic...

Dellamora, who also wrote Masculine Desire: The Sexual Politics of Victorian Aestheticism, offers a more condensed version of his studies in the essay that follows. Looking at several of the major figures of the era—including Wilde, Walter Pater, and J. A. Symonds—Dellamora considers the shifting notions of masculinity and male-male desire that traversed the century, focusing specifically on efforts to maintain the Greek ideal.

When Jamie Nabozny entered the restroom at his high school one morning, two boys assaulted him. “One pushed his knee into the back of mine,” says Nabozny. “I fell into the urinal, and another kid started peeing on me. I just remember...

“[Homosexuals] have moved from being a social movement to more of an interest group with established lobbying groups, political-action committees and a distinctive voting profile. It’s a group that is out and is exercising influence.”...

Discusses how homosexuality was taboo in Victorian literature. Also provides a comparison of "Turn of the Screw" and "Lost Stradivarius."

Explores the issue of homosexuality in Hong Kong. Advocates treating homosexuals as equally as heterosexuals in human rights and moral aspects. Provides clarification on some falsehoods related to homosexuality is also mentioned.

The different views of homosexuality.