Homosexuality
HOMOSEXUALITY. Sexual activity between persons of the same sex is known from many places far and near throughout history. Because the word homosexuality derives from the Greek homos, mea...
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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...
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When sexologist Havelock Ellis first published Sexual Inversion in 1897, his study became one of the standard authorities in English on the subject. Considered a highly scientific and generally sympat...
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The following excerpt from Crompton's biography of Romantic poet Lord Byron looks at the explicitly homosexual poem Don Leon. The poem, which appeared in print soon after the poet's deat...
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Sedgwick's Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire became a standard in the new field of gay and lesbian studies on its publication in 1985. In her work, Sedgwick argues that...
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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 o...
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In 1956, Foster published the first exhaustive study of lesbian content in literature, Sex Variant Women in Literature. The following excerpt presents some of her findings on the nineteenth century, d...
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Faderman's Surpassing the Love of Men constituted a landmark in the progress of feminist and lesbian studies on its publication in 1981. The book's scope ranges from the sixteenth centur...
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In the excerpt below, Castle surveys the history of lesbianism in literature—both covert and overt—to find a connection between the presence of apparitions and the presence, or erasure, ...
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In the late-nineteenth century, Symonds and sexologist Havelock Ellis discussed working together to produce a study of homosexuality. When Ellis published his finished work in 1897, Symonds's c...
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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 ...
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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 fig...
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In the excerpt that follows, Fone suggests that gay male literature tends toward a certain image of Utopia. He substantiates his view with examples from the work of several nineteenth-century writers,...
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Meyers's Homosexuality and Literature 1890-1930 offered one of the first serious studies of gay male content in literature. In the chapter excerpted below, Meyers reassesses Oscar Wilde'...
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Give Custody to the Homosexual or the Heterosexual"
Homosexuality shouldn't be a determining factor in a court case over custody, and if the parent was married and had the kid with another person of ...
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"The Controversial Issue of Homosexuality"
Is having sexual attraction or desire for persons of the same sex immoral? Should an individual have to traverse discrimination or be brutally beaten beca...
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In the late eighteeth century, notions of modesty and propriety meant that there were few ways in which sexuality could be discussed openly in a social setting. Gothic narrative served as an outlet. I...
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My cousin Aaron has always known he can come to me with anything. He comes to me with any problems he has or just to share something. When he called me this time, he spoke very excitedly. He proceeded...
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Have you ever wondered how it would feel to be hated for something that was perfectly normal to yourself or denied an opportunity because of a personal choice that does not hurt or even affect anybody...
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Homosexual Behavior
Homosexual behavior is always under great scrutiny by religious sects. However, there are strong genetic explanations for this behavior. Homosexuality has been noted in all studie...
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Teaching and Modeling Homosexual Tolerance in the Public School System
I am an advocate of acceptance and tolerance as well as equality for homosexuals. I am going to try and explain to you the cou...
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Introduction
In the last decade, the issue of homosexuality has been widely discussed and known in Hong Kong. People have more opportunities to approach the word `homosexuality' in their daily life ...
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Homosexuality
Homosexuality
