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4 unusual facts about Homosexuality


Evan Stephens

In his book Same-Sex Dynamics Among Nineteenth Century Americans, published in 1996, historian D. Michael Quinn expresses his view that Stephens had homosexual relationships and that these were tolerated by the LDS Church hierarchy.

Homosexuality: An Annotated Bibliography

Homosexuality: An Annotated Bibliography, by Alan P. Bell and Martin S. Weinberg, is a 1972 bibliography of literature on homosexuality.

Paul Okalik

Okalik introduced the first Nunavut Human Rights Act, which had never been done in the former NWT, and took a principled stand on its need to cover homosexuals.

ST8:USA300

Outbreaks of community-associated (CA)-MRSA infections have been reported in correctional facilities, among athletic teams, among military recruits, in newborn nurseries, and among active homosexual men.


1983 in LGBT rights

In the 1983 by-election for the Bermondsey constituency in South London, Labour candidate Peter Tatchell loses a previously safe seat after a campaign dominated by attacks on his left-wing politics and homosexuality.

1996 in LGBT rights

November 18 – Evelyn Hooker, whose research helped lead to declassifying homosexuality as a mental illness.

Benedetta Carlini

E. Ann Matter, a feminist religious scholar, has an alternative perspective on the case of Benedetta Carlini, and wrote about it in the Journal of Homosexuality in 1990.

Brice Beckham

In 2012 Beckham appeared in a Funny or Die video called "CCOKC", which stood for "Child Celebrities Opposing Kirk Cameron" to protest Cameron's stance on homosexuality.

Brigitte Hamann

Following the publication of The Hidden Hitler by the historian and University of Bremen professor Lothar Machtan, Hamann investigated claims about Hitler's homosexuality and appears in the 2004 HBO documentary film, Hidden Fuhrer: Debating the Enigma of Hitler's Sexuality, by the American documentarians Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato.

Chair Model

Michael calls Oscar Martinez (Oscar Nunez) an "Oscar Mayer Weiner Lover", a reference to both the sausage of the same name, as well as Oscar's homosexuality.

Chan Chandler

Chandler Chandler is the former pastor of East Waynesville Baptist Church who resigned after receiving national attention when nine members of his church who supported Democratic candidate John F. Kerry in the 2004 United States presidential election, took offense at his sermons pointing out Kerry's support of abortion and homosexuality, and left the church.

Check to the Queen

Silvia comes to her service as a lady companion, but her submissive role soon acquires masochistic traits and homosexual shades.

Duke Ling of Wei

This story was so widespread amongst the literati of China that the phrase "the bitten peach" became a byword for homosexuality.

Eloy de la Iglesia

El diputado (Confessions of a Congressman) (1979), follows the story of a politician who is blackmailed due to his secret homosexuality and El sacerdote (The Priest ), also released in 1979, deals with a conservative catholic priest whose sexual obsessions leads him to self-punishment.

Esera Tuaolo

He also appeared on The Tyra Banks Show talking about his becoming open about his homosexuality to the NFL and speaking out against their "Don't ask, don't tell" policy which is similarly held by U.S. Scouts groups.

Ex-gay movement

Joseph Nicolosi is an American clinical psychologist, founder and director of the Thomas Aquinas Psychological Clinic in Encino, California, and a founder and former president of the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH).

Frances Negrón-Muntaner

The book also has chapters on West Side Story, Ricky Martin, and Holly Woodlawn, with interesting insights about Puerto Rican homosexuality in the United States.

Friend of Dorothy

In the early 1980s, the Naval Investigative Service was investigating homosexuality in the Chicago area.

Gay male pulp fiction

These were often reprints of literary novels that involved references to homosexuality, such as Charles Jackson's 1946 novel, The Fall of Valor, and Gore Vidal's 1948 novel, The City and the Pillar, which first appeared in paperback in 1950.

George Mosse

Mosse attended the Quaker Bootham School in York, England, whose teachers began to stimulate his intellectual curiosity, and where, according to his autobiography, he became aware of his homosexuality.

Giuseppe Povia

Povia declared that the song is about Luca Tolve, who he says has been cured of his homosexuality thanks to the therapies of Joseph Nicolosi.

Homie

In humorous usage, the comedian Pablo Francisco has utilized the similarity between "homie" and "homo" in some of his stand-up routines.

Ideological diversionism

These corruptions included, but were not limited to, homosexuality, western popular culture like The Beatles, laziness, and intellectualism.

If I'm Dyin', I'm Lyin'

In June 2003, Igor Smykov sued the Russian television channel REN TV on claims that Family Guy, along with The Simpsons, were "morally degenerate and promoted drugs, violence, and homosexuality."

Jeff Dudgeon

He is mainly known for Dudgeon v United Kingdom, the case which led to the legalisation of homosexuality in Northern Ireland.

Jo the Waiter

Like many Numan songs from this period, it evokes a Burroughsian world of addiction, homosexuality and failed relationships, predating the writer's fascination with science fiction that took hold on the next and last Tubeway Army album, Replicas (1979).

John Finnis

Political commentator Andrew Sullivan writes that Finnis has articulated "an intelligible and subtle account of homosexuality" based on the new natural law, a less biologically-based version of natural law theory.

John Giffard, 3rd Earl of Halsbury

In 1986, he tabled a Private Member's Bill in the House of Lords entitled "An act to refrain local authorities from promoting homosexuality"; it failed, but led to the enactment of the similar Section 28.

Lamparello v. Falwell

In 1999, Christopher Lamparello registered the domain name fallwell.com and used the affiliated website as a gripe site to express his negative opinions about the Fundamentalist Christian preacher Jerry Falwell's public statements against homosexuality.

LGBT history in Germany

1871 – Homosexuality is criminalized throughout the German Empire by Paragraph 175 of the Reich Criminal Code.

LGBT rights in Iran

In 1972, Dr. Saviz Shafaii gave a public lecture on homosexuality at the Shiraz University and in 1976 would research sexual orientation and gender issues at the Syracuse University.

LGBT rights in Mexico City

Homosexuality is legal in Mexico City since the country's adoption of the Napoleonic Code (via the brief French occupation of Mexico (1862–67)).

Mark Ravenhill

With composed by Conor Mitchell, the piece, entitled Shadow Time, explores the evolution of mentalities in respect of homosexuality in the lifetime of the Chorus.

Mit brennender Sorge

According to John Vidmar, Nazi reprisals against the Church in Germany followed thereafter, including "staged prosecutions of monks for homosexuality, with the maximum of publicity".

Nissim Mossek

As a director and editor, Mossek explores subjects such as racism, homosexuality and other cultural boundaries in Israeli society.

Page Hopkins

Most recently, Hopkins interviewed Randy Roberts Potts on growing up with his grandfather Oral Roberts and then later revealing his homosexuality in his adult life.

Randy Wicker

When WBAI radio broadcast a panel of psychiatrists who espoused the sickness theory of homosexuality, Wicker persuaded the station manager to put him and several other openly gay people on the air to "rap" about their lives.

Religion and homosexuality

Macnutt, Francis (2006) "Can Homosexuality Be Healed?" publisher 'Chosen Books', ISBN 0-8007-9409-5

Rind et al. controversy

The first substantial and public reaction was a December criticism by the National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality, an organization dedicated to the discredited view that homosexuality is a mental illness that can be cured by psychotherapy.

Ruth Gledhill

Gledhill has argued in favour of the "benefits of schism" within the Anglican Communion, taking a critical stance against Peter Akinola and other church leaders with conservative views on homosexuality.

Scott Page-Pagter

In 2010, former Blue Power Ranger David Yost came out about his homosexuality in an interview with No Pink Spandex.

Sham marriage

So-called lavender marriages, to conceal the appearance of homosexuality, have been used by Rock Hudson, among others, at the request of Hollywood studios.

Sporus

In 1735, Alexander Pope wrote a satirical poem that mocked the courtier Lord Hervey, who had been accused of homosexuality a few years earlier.

The Adventures of Barry Ween, Boy Genius

"In The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway describes genius as the ability to learn at a greater velocity. For a suicidal drunk with a pathological fear of latent homosexuality, Papa did all right."

The Front Runner

The difficult, drawn-out process of their coming out as a couple (and Harlan's as an individual) in the intensely homophobic world of amateur athletics takes up most of the book, throughout which the sport - and particularly Billy's determination to qualify for the 1976 Olympics in Montreal - plays as large a part as the characters' homosexuality.

The Homosexual Matrix

The Homosexual Matrix is a 1975 work about homosexuality by Clarence Arthur Tripp.

Tripp's account of psychoanalytic theories of homosexuality has been criticized by Jonathan Dollimore, who calls it an over-simplification bordering on parody.

The Queen's Throat

The Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality and the Mystery of Desire is a 1993 book by American cultural critic Wayne Koestenbaum.

Theodore Durrant

A notorious right wing politician and inventor, Noel Pemberton Billing was publishing that the production was meant to sap British military and spiritual values by introducing indecent ideas (i.e., homosexuality) into the public from Wilde's writings.

Timo Descamps

In 2009, Descamps publicly announced his homosexuality and relationship with Danny de Jong.

Xq28

One study showed weak linkage to the Xq28 region, whereas a second in 1999 studying Canadian material consisting of 52 pairs of gay brothers found no statistically significant linkage in alleles and haplotypes and concluded against an X-linked male homosexuality gene.


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