Homosexuality

Homosexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction, or sexual behavior between members of the same sex or gender. As a sexual orientation, homosexuality is "an enduring pattern of emotional, romantic, and/or sexual attractions" to people of the same sex. It "also refers to a person's sense of identity based on those attractions, related behaviors, and membership in a community of others who share those attractions."Along with bisexuality and heterosexuality, homosexuality is one of the three main categories of sexual orientation within the heterosexual–homosexual continuum. Scientists do not yet know the exact cause of sexual orientation, but they theorize that it is …

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MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English

Critic, translator, essayist, and gay man, Édouard Roditi (1910–1992) was a singular witness to the twentieth century. His writings over six decades are a unique account of a life lived …

political events of the twentieth century are his homosexuality and Jewishness. His relation- ships to both years, Roditi would write a great deal about homosexuality as a social and cultural issue, and about its with chapter titles such as “Homosexuality and the Church” and “Homosexuality and the State,” but also rather bizarre theories on the etiology of homosexuality (overpopu- lation, urban crowding). Whatever and that would decriminalize adultery and homosexuality. Roditi contributed regularly to homophile and


DDN: Dundurn Press · 15 October 2024 English

“Coren tells us the stories of his fascinating life with clarity, self-deprecating wit, and page-turning verve.” — STEPHEN FRY From England’s working class to high profile media personality, Michael Coren …

My brief experience with the military, and homosexuality, left me with a respect and admiration for


Wellesley Institute · 10 October 2024 English

The following sections provide a synthesis of the initiatives, detailing information about the types of municipal-led initiatives, the roles of the municipalities in the initiatives, and factors that influenced or …

Adults Who Experience Homelessness. Journal of homosexuality, 66(3), 297-323. https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369


DDN: Dundurn Press · 8 October 2024 English

101 lesser-known stories to delight Canadian cinema and television fans. Do you know who was in the first on-screen nude scene in a Canadian feature film? Or which David Cronenberg …

deep dives into themes of depression, abuse, homosexuality, and violence. Virgo has claimed Rude as being


Fraser Institute · 19 September 2024 English

Though it is possible to define freedom in absolute terms, it is more useful to think of it as a spectrum. When individuals are freer, others impose fewer and less …

(2013) on economic freedom and tolerance of homosexuality and Rosemarie Fike (2024b, 2024a) on economic


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 3 September 2024 English

Mainstreaming Porn reveals how sexual norms, practices, and desires are shaped by corporate platforms such as Pornhub in the same way that social media has affected society at large. It …

gay marriage and more generalized fears of homosexuality.”108 Researchers and journalists have documented


UAP: University of Alberta Press · 22 August 2024 English

Contemporary Vulnerabilities explores vulnerable moments in research committed to social change.

appeared on a major television show to discuss homosexuality almost a decade ago. I no longer remember whether influences,6 and the decriminalization of homosexuality in 2013 and 2018 have all made enormous differences quite clear that the decriminalization of homosexuality in 2018 has caused a significant shift in how


CHPC: Children's Health Policy Centre · 6 August 2024 English

15 Mental Health of Transgender and Nonbinary Children and Youth: Informing Service Needs Page 3 of 16 © Children’s Health Policy Centre, Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, 2024 …

identity in a time of gender fluidity. Journal of Homosexuality, 67, 1675—1690. 4. Craig SL, Austin A, Levenson


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 June 2024 English

Myths and stereotypes surrounding seafarers in the Age of Sail persist to this day. Sailors were celebrated for their courage, strength, and skill, yet condemned for militancy, vice, and fecklessness. …

simple binary divide between heterosexuality and homosexuality, and urged the acceptance of a wider range


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 7 May 2024 English

The Children’s Hour (1961) was the first mainstream US film to feature a lesbian character in a leading role. Julia Erhart explores how the film’s conception, production, and reception reveal …

themes and dealing with the topical themes of homosexuality and social persecution, The Children’s Hour that the story deals with a “false charge of homosexuality” – but in practicality this point remained there be any acts or suggestions of acts of homosexuality itself” (Krim 1961). 42 The Children’s HourScholars mosexual “development.” Declaring a character’s homosexuality to be (only, conclusively) “in the past” echoes “explanations” from this period which positioned homosexuality as a “phase” occurring in the early years of


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