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.”...

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, meaning "same," and not from the Latin homo, meaning...

When speaking of homosexuality, one must distinguish between male homosexuality and female homosexuality, or lesbianism. Asia has a rich cultural background when it comes to male homosexuality; China and Japan offer abundant historical evidence....

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...

sexual interest in and attraction to members of one's own sex. The term gay is frequently used as a synonym for homosexual; female homosexuality is often referred to as lesbianism. At different times and in different cultures, homosexual behaviour has...

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 is a category invented as an object of scientific investigation by a Hungarian doctor, Benkert, in 1869, amidst a flurry of attempts to classify sexuality (Foucault 1979). It is hence a distinctively modern term. By contrast, same-sex...

An individual who prefers exclusive sexual contact with members of the same sex. The terms ‘gay’ and ‘lesbian’ are used colloquially to refer to homosexual men and women, respectively. Homosexuality is as old as humanity, and...

Since the 1960s, when moral codes were relaxing everywhere in the West in favour of the ‘permissive’ society, the political implications of homosexuality have become increasingly prominent. The word ‘gay’ is often used when...

Bohan, J.S. (1996) Psychology and Sexual Orientation, New York: Routledge. D’Augelli, A.R. and Patterson, C.J. (eds) (1995) Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Identities over the Lifespan, New York: Oxford University Press. Foucault, M. (1990) The...

Sexual interest in and attraction to members of one's own sex. Female homosexuality is frequently referred to as lesbianism; the word gay is often used as an alternative for both “homosexual” and “lesbian,” though it may refer...

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...