Table of Contents
443 relations: Abrahamic religions, Academy Awards, Acanthocephala, Achilles and Patroclus, Acronym, Aegis, Affection, Age of consent, American Academy of Pediatrics, American Psychiatric Association, American Psychological Association, American Society of Human Genetics, Amicus curiae, An Early Frost, Anachronism, Anal sex, Anastasius I Dicorus, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Rome, And the Band Played On, Anilingus, Animal sexual behaviour, Anthropologist, Anti-bullying legislation, Anti-Defamation League, Anti-LGBT rhetoric, Antinous, Aristotle, Arizona, Art of ancient Egypt, Asexuality, Associated Press, Association of College and Research Libraries, Assyria, Attitude (psychology), Australian Psychological Society, Azande people, Aztecs, Bahuchara Mata, Basic Books, BBC News Online, Biblical Theology Bulletin, Bill Clinton, Biology and sexual orientation, Biphobia, Bisexuality, Blood donation restrictions on men who have sex with men, Bloomberg Industry Group, Bowers v. Hardwick, Brothel, ... Expand index (393 more) »
- 1860s neologisms
- LGBT studies
- Psychiatric false diagnosis
Abrahamic religions
The Abrahamic religions are a grouping of three of the major religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) together due to their historical coexistence and competition; it refers to Abraham, a figure mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, the Christian Bible, and the Quran, and is used to show similarities between these religions and put them in contrast to Indian religions, Iranian religions, and the East Asian religions (though other religions and belief systems may refer to Abraham as well).
See Homosexuality and Abrahamic religions
Academy Awards
The Academy Awards of Merit, commonly known as the Oscars or Academy Awards, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the film industry.
See Homosexuality and Academy Awards
Acanthocephala
Acanthocephala (Greek ἄκανθος, akanthos 'thorn' + κεφαλή, kephale 'head') is a group of parasitic worms known as acanthocephalans, thorny-headed worms, or spiny-headed worms, characterized by the presence of an eversible proboscis, armed with spines, which it uses to pierce and hold the gut wall of its host.
See Homosexuality and Acanthocephala
Achilles and Patroclus
The relationship between Achilles and Patroclus is a key element of the stories associated with the Trojan War.
See Homosexuality and Achilles and Patroclus
Acronym
An acronym is an abbreviation of a phrase that usually consists of the initial letter of each word in all caps with no punctuation.
Aegis
The aegis (αἰγίς aigís), as stated in the Iliad, is a device carried by Athena and Zeus, variously interpreted as an animal skin or a shield and sometimes featuring the head of a Gorgon.
Affection
Affection or fondness is a "disposition or state of mind or body" commonly linked to a feeling or type of love. Homosexuality and Affection are love.
See Homosexuality and Affection
Age of consent
The age of consent is the age at which a person is considered to be legally competent to consent to sexual acts.
See Homosexuality and Age of consent
American Academy of Pediatrics
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is the largest professional association of pediatricians in the United States.
See Homosexuality and American Academy of Pediatrics
American Psychiatric Association
The American Psychiatric Association (APA) is the main professional organization of psychiatrists and trainee psychiatrists in the United States, and the largest psychiatric organization in the world.
See Homosexuality and American Psychiatric Association
American Psychological Association
The American Psychological Association (APA) is the main professional organization of psychologists in the United States, and the largest psychological association in the world.
See Homosexuality and American Psychological Association
American Society of Human Genetics
The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG), founded in 1948, is a professional membership organization for specialists in human genetics.
See Homosexuality and American Society of Human Genetics
Amicus curiae
An amicus curiae is an individual or organization that is not a party to a legal case, but that is permitted to assist a court by offering information, expertise, or insight that has a bearing on the issues in the case.
See Homosexuality and Amicus curiae
An Early Frost
An Early Frost is a 1985 American made-for-television drama film.
See Homosexuality and An Early Frost
Anachronism
An anachronism (from the Greek ἀνά ana, 'against' and χρόνος khronos, 'time') is a chronological inconsistency in some arrangement, especially a juxtaposition of people, events, objects, language terms and customs from different time periods.
See Homosexuality and Anachronism
Anal sex
Anal sex or anal intercourse is generally the insertion and thrusting of the erect penis into a person's anus, or anus and rectum, for sexual pleasure.
See Homosexuality and Anal sex
Anastasius I Dicorus
Anastasius I Dicorus (Anastásios; – 9 July 518) was Eastern Roman emperor from 491 to 518.
See Homosexuality and Anastasius I Dicorus
Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Northeast Africa.
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Ancient Rome
In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman civilisation from the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD.
See Homosexuality and Ancient Rome
And the Band Played On
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic is a 1987 book by San Francisco Chronicle journalist Randy Shilts.
See Homosexuality and And the Band Played On
Anilingus
Anilingus (also spelled analingus) is an oral and anal sex act (anal–oral contact or anal–oral sex) in which one person stimulates the anus of another by using their tongue or lips.
See Homosexuality and Anilingus
Animal sexual behaviour
Animal sexual behaviour takes many different forms, including within the same species.
See Homosexuality and Animal sexual behaviour
Anthropologist
An anthropologist is a person engaged in the practice of anthropology.
See Homosexuality and Anthropologist
Anti-bullying legislation
Anti-bullying legislation is a legislation enacted to help reduce and eliminate bullying.
See Homosexuality and Anti-bullying legislation
Anti-Defamation League
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), formerly known as the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, is a New York–based international non-governmental organization that was founded to combat antisemitism, bigotry and discrimination.
See Homosexuality and Anti-Defamation League
Anti-LGBT rhetoric
Anti-LGBT rhetoric comprises themes, catchphrases, and slogans that have been used in order to demean lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people.
See Homosexuality and Anti-LGBT rhetoric
Antinous
Antinous, also called Antinoös, (Ἀντίνοος; –) was a Greek youth from Bithynia and a favourite and lover of the Roman emperor Hadrian.
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Aristotle
Aristotle (Ἀριστοτέλης Aristotélēs; 384–322 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath.
See Homosexuality and Aristotle
Arizona
Arizona (Hoozdo Hahoodzo; Alĭ ṣonak) is a landlocked state in the Southwestern region of the United States.
Art of ancient Egypt
Ancient Egyptian art refers to art produced in ancient Egypt between the 6th millennium BC and the 4th century AD, spanning from Prehistoric Egypt until the Christianization of Roman Egypt.
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Asexuality
Asexuality is the lack of sexual attraction to others, or low or absent interest in or desire for sexual activity. Homosexuality and Asexuality are LGBT studies.
See Homosexuality and Asexuality
Associated Press
The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.
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Association of College and Research Libraries
The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), a division of the American Library Association, is a professional association of academic librarians and other interested individuals.
See Homosexuality and Association of College and Research Libraries
Assyria
Assyria (Neo-Assyrian cuneiform: x16px, māt Aššur) was a major ancient Mesopotamian civilization which existed as a city-state from the 21st century BC to the 14th century BC, which eventually expanded into an empire from the 14th century BC to the 7th century BC.
Attitude (psychology)
An attitude "is a summary evaluation of an object of thought.
See Homosexuality and Attitude (psychology)
Australian Psychological Society
The Australian Psychological Society (APS) is the leading organisation for psychologists in Australia.
See Homosexuality and Australian Psychological Society
Azande people
The Azande are an ethnic group in Central Africa speaking the Zande languages (whose classification is uncertain).
See Homosexuality and Azande people
Aztecs
The Aztecs were a Mesoamerican civilization that flourished in central Mexico in the post-classic period from 1300 to 1521.
Bahuchara Mata
Bahuchara Mata (translit; translit) is a Hindu goddess of chastity and fertility in her maiden aspect, of the incarnation of the Hinglaj.
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Basic Books
Basic Books is a book publisher founded in 1950 and located in New York City, now an imprint of Hachette Book Group.
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BBC News Online
BBC News Online is the website of BBC News, the division of the BBC responsible for newsgathering and production.
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Biblical Theology Bulletin
The Biblical Theology Bulletin is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes articles and book reviews in the fields of biblical studies and, to a lesser extent, theology.
See Homosexuality and Biblical Theology Bulletin
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson Clinton (né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001.
See Homosexuality and Bill Clinton
Biology and sexual orientation
The relationship between biology and sexual orientation is a subject of on-going research.
See Homosexuality and Biology and sexual orientation
Biphobia
Biphobia is aversion toward bisexuality or people who are identified or perceived as being bisexual.
See Homosexuality and Biphobia
Bisexuality
Bisexuality is a romantic or sexual attraction or behavior toward both males and females (gender binary), to more than one gender, or to both people of the same gender and different genders. Homosexuality and Bisexuality are LGBT studies.
See Homosexuality and Bisexuality
Blood donation restrictions on men who have sex with men
Many countries have laws, regulations, or recommendations that effectively prohibit donations of blood or tissue for organ and corneal transplants from men who have sex with men (MSM), a classification irrespective of their sexual activities with same-sex partners and of whether they identify themselves as bisexual or gay.
See Homosexuality and Blood donation restrictions on men who have sex with men
Bloomberg Industry Group
Bloomberg Industry Group (formerly known as Bloomberg BNA, The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc., and BNA) is an affiliate of Bloomberg L.P. and a source of legal, tax, regulatory, and business news and information for professionals.
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Bowers v. Hardwick
Bowers v. Hardwick, 478 U.S. 186 (1986), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that upheld, in a 5–4 ruling, the constitutionality of a Georgia sodomy law criminalizing oral and anal sex in private between consenting adults, in this case with respect to homosexual sodomy, though the law did not differentiate between homosexual and heterosexual sodomy.
See Homosexuality and Bowers v. Hardwick
Brothel
A brothel, bordello, bawdy house, ranch, house of ill repute, house of ill fame, or whorehouse is a place where people engage in sexual activity with prostitutes.
Bruce Bagemihl
Bruce Bagemihl is a Canadian biologist, linguist, and author of the book Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity.
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Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (BMCR) is an open access journal founded in 1990.
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Calgary Herald
The Calgary Herald is a daily newspaper published in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
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Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.
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Capital punishment
Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty and formerly called judicial homicide, is the state-sanctioned killing of a person as punishment for actual or supposed misconduct.
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Capital punishment for homosexuality
Capital punishment as a criminal punishment for homosexuality has been implemented by a number of countries in their history.
See Homosexuality and Capital punishment for homosexuality
CBC News
CBC News is a division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the news gathering and production of news programs on the corporation's English-language operations, namely CBC Television, CBC Radio, CBC News Network, and CBC.ca.
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CBS News
CBS News is the news division of the American television and radio broadcaster CBS.
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CCH (company)
CCH, formerly Commerce Clearing House, is a provider of software and information services for tax, accounting and audit workers.
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Celibacy
Celibacy (from Latin caelibatus) is the state of voluntarily being unmarried, sexually abstinent, or both, usually for religious reasons.
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Celts
The Celts (see pronunciation for different usages) or Celtic peoples were a collection of Indo-European peoples.
Cengage Group
Cengage Group is an American educational content, technology, and services company for higher education, K–12, professional, and library markets.
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Census
A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating population information about the members of a given population.
Charlotte Patterson
Charlotte J. Patterson is a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia.
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Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union
The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (CFR) enshrines certain political, social, and economic rights for European Union (EU) citizens and residents into EU law.
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Chicago Tribune
The Chicago Tribune is an American daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, owned by Tribune Publishing.
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China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.
Chinese Classification of Mental Disorders
The Chinese Classification of Mental Disorders (CCMD), published by the Chinese Society of Psychiatry (CSP), is a clinical guide used in China for the diagnosis of mental disorders.
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Chinese Society of Psychiatry
The Chinese Society of Psychiatry (CSP) is the largest organization for psychiatrists in China.
See Homosexuality and Chinese Society of Psychiatry
Christian denomination
A Christian denomination is a distinct religious body within Christianity that comprises all church congregations of the same kind, identifiable by traits such as a name, particular history, organization, leadership, theological doctrine, worship style and, sometimes, a founder.
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Christian theology
Christian theology is the theology – the systematic study of the divine and religion – of Christian belief and practice.
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Christian views on sin
In Christianity, sin is an immoral act and transgression of divine law.
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Christianity
Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
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Christianity and homosexuality
Within Christianity, there are a variety of views on sexual orientation and homosexuality.
See Homosexuality and Christianity and homosexuality
Chromosome 8
Chromosome 8 is one of the 23 pairs of chromosomes in humans.
See Homosexuality and Chromosome 8
Civil and political rights
Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations, and private individuals.
See Homosexuality and Civil and political rights
Civil Marriage Act
The Civil Marriage Act (Loi sur le mariage civil) is a federal statute legalizing same-sex marriage across Canada.
See Homosexuality and Civil Marriage Act
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a landmark civil rights and labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin.
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Coming out
Coming out of the closet, often shortened to coming out, is a metaphor used to describe LGBT people's self-disclosure of their sexual orientation, romantic orientation, or gender identity.
See Homosexuality and Coming out
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt is a 1989 American documentary film that tells the story of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt.
See Homosexuality and Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
Condom
A condom is a sheath-shaped barrier device used during sexual intercourse to reduce the probability of pregnancy or a sexually transmitted infection (STI).
Connotation
A connotation is a commonly understood cultural or emotional association that any given word or phrase carries, in addition to its explicit or literal meaning, which is its denotation.
See Homosexuality and Connotation
Constitution of the United States
The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States.
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Constitutional monarchy
Constitutional monarchy, also known as limited monarchy, parliamentary monarchy or democratic monarchy, is a form of monarchy in which the monarch exercises their authority in accordance with a constitution and is not alone in making decisions.
See Homosexuality and Constitutional monarchy
Conversion therapy
Conversion therapy is the pseudoscientific practice of attempting to change an individual's sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression to align with heterosexual and cisgender norms.
See Homosexuality and Conversion therapy
Corrective rape
Corrective rape, also called curative rape or homophobic rape, is a hate crime in which somebody is raped because of their perceived sexual orientation.
See Homosexuality and Corrective rape
Courtship
Courtship is the period wherein some couples get to know each other prior to a possible marriage or committed romantic, de facto relationship.
See Homosexuality and Courtship
Crete
Crete (translit, Modern:, Ancient) is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the 88th largest island in the world and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, and Corsica.
Crime against nature
The crime against nature or unnatural act has historically been a legal term in English-speaking states identifying forms of sexual behavior not considered natural or decent and are legally punishable offenses.
See Homosexuality and Crime against nature
Cross-dressing
Cross-dressing is the act of wearing clothes traditionally or stereotypically associated with a different gender.
See Homosexuality and Cross-dressing
Declaration of Montreal
The Declaration of Montreal on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Human Rights is a document adopted in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on July 29, 2006, by the International Conference on LGBT Human Rights which formed part of the first World Outgames.
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Democratic Republic of the Congo
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), also known as the DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, Congo-Zaire, or simply either Congo or the Congo, is a country in Central Africa.
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Dental dam
A dental dam or rubber dam is a thin, square sheet, usually latex or nitrile, used in dentistry to isolate the operative site (one or more teeth) from the rest of the mouth.
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Deseret News
The Deseret News is a multi-platform newspaper based in Salt Lake City, published by Deseret News Publishing Company, a subsidiary of Deseret Management Corporation, which is owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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Developed country
A developed country, or advanced country, is a sovereign state that has a high quality of life, developed economy, and advanced technological infrastructure relative to other less industrialized nations.
See Homosexuality and Developed country
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM; latest edition: DSM-5-TR, published in March 2022) is a publication by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) for the classification of mental disorders using a common language and standard criteria.
See Homosexuality and Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
Disability
Disability is the experience of any condition that makes it more difficult for a person to do certain activities or have equitable access within a given society.
See Homosexuality and Disability
Discrimination
Discrimination is the process of making unfair or prejudicial distinctions between people based on the groups, classes, or other categories to which they belong or are perceived to belong, such as race, gender, age, religion, physical attractiveness or sexual orientation.
See Homosexuality and Discrimination
Disease vector
In epidemiology, a disease vector is any living agent that carries and transmits an infectious pathogen such as a parasite or microbe, to another living organism.
See Homosexuality and Disease vector
Domestic partnership
A domestic partnership is an intimate relationship between people, usually couples, who live together and share a common domestic life but who are not married (to each other or to anyone else).
See Homosexuality and Domestic partnership
Don't ask, don't tell
"Don't ask, don't tell" (DADT) was the official United States policy on military service of non-heterosexual people.
See Homosexuality and Don't ask, don't tell
Dream of the Red Chamber
Dream of the Red Chamber or The Story of the Stone is an 18th-century Chinese novel authored by Cao Xueqin, considered to be one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature.
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Due Process Clause
A Due Process Clause is found in both the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, which prohibit the deprivation of "life, liberty, or property" by the federal and state governments, respectively, without due process of law.
See Homosexuality and Due Process Clause
E. E. Evans-Pritchard
Sir Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard FBA FRAI (21 September 1902 – 11 September 1973) was an English anthropologist who was instrumental in the development of social anthropology.
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East Asia
East Asia is a geographical and cultural region of Asia including the countries of China, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, and Taiwan.
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East Semitic languages
The East Semitic languages are one of three divisions of the Semitic languages.
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Edward Carpenter
Edward Carpenter (29 August 1844 – 28 June 1929) was an English utopian socialist, poet, philosopher, anthologist, an early activist for gay rights and prison reform whilst advocating vegetarianism and taking a stance against vivisection.
See Homosexuality and Edward Carpenter
Edward II of England
Edward II (25 April 1284 – 21 September 1327), also known as Edward of Caernarfon or Caernarvon, was King of England from 1307 until he was deposed in January 1327.
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Ego-dystonic sexual orientation
Ego-dystonic sexual orientation is a highly controversial mental health diagnosis that was included in the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) from 1980 to 1987 (under the name ego-dystonic homosexuality) and in the World Health Organization's (WHO) International Classification of Diseases (ICD) from 1990 to 2019.
See Homosexuality and Ego-dystonic sexual orientation
Elisar von Kupffer
Elisàr January Emanuel von Kupffer (20 February 1872 – 31 October 1942) was a Baltic German artist, anthologist, poet, historian, translator, and playwright.
See Homosexuality and Elisar von Kupffer
Empirical evidence
Empirical evidence for a proposition is evidence, i.e. what supports or counters this proposition, that is constituted by or accessible to sense experience or experimental procedure.
See Homosexuality and Empirical evidence
Employment discrimination
Employment discrimination is a form of illegal discrimination in the workplace based on legally protected characteristics.
See Homosexuality and Employment discrimination
Employment discrimination law in the United States
Employment discrimination law in the United States derives from the common law, and is codified in numerous state, federal, and local laws.
See Homosexuality and Employment discrimination law in the United States
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
Environment and sexual orientation
The relationship between the environment and sexual orientation is a subject of research.
See Homosexuality and Environment and sexual orientation
Epigenetics
In biology, epigenetics is the study of heritable traits, or a stable change of cell function, that happen without changes to the DNA sequence.
See Homosexuality and Epigenetics
Equality before the law
Equality before the law, also known as equality under the law, equality in the eyes of the law, legal equality, or legal egalitarianism, is the principle that all people must be equally protected by the law.
See Homosexuality and Equality before the law
Ethnic groups in Europe
Europeans are the focus of European ethnology, the field of anthropology related to the various ethnic groups that reside in the states of Europe.
See Homosexuality and Ethnic groups in Europe
Ethnicity
An ethnicity or ethnic group is a group of people who identify with each other on the basis of perceived shared attributes that distinguish them from other groups.
See Homosexuality and Ethnicity
Etoro people
The Etoro, or Edolo, are a tribe and ethnic group of Papua New Guinea.
See Homosexuality and Etoro people
European Union
The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe.
See Homosexuality and European Union
Executive Order 13087
Executive Order 13087 was signed by U.S. President Bill Clinton on May 28, 1998, amending Executive Order 11478 to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation in the competitive service of the federal civilian workforce.
See Homosexuality and Executive Order 13087
Faggot
Faggot, often shortened to fag in American usage, is a term, usually considered a slur, used to refer to gay men.
Fairy
A fairy (also fay, fae, fey, fair folk, or faerie) is a type of mythical being or legendary creature, generally described as anthropomorphic, found in the folklore of multiple European cultures (including Celtic, Slavic, Germanic, and French folklore), a form of spirit, often with metaphysical, supernatural, or preternatural qualities.
Fanny Hill
Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure—popularly known as Fanny Hill—is an erotic novel by the English novelist John Cleland first published in London in 1748.
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Fecundity
Fecundity is defined in two ways; in human demography, it is the potential for reproduction of a recorded population as opposed to a sole organism, while in population biology, it is considered similar to fertility, the natural capability to produce offspring, measured by the number of gametes (eggs), seed set, or asexual propagules.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States and its principal federal law enforcement agency.
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Federal Register
The Federal Register (FR or sometimes Fed. Reg.) is the official journal of the federal government of the United States that contains government agency rules, proposed rules, and public notices.
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Federal Reporter
The Federal Reporter is a case law reporter in the United States that is published by West Publishing and a part of the National Reporter System.
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Florence
Florence (Firenze) is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany.
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Food and Drug Administration
The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA or US FDA) is a federal agency of the Department of Health and Human Services.
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Forbes
Forbes is an American business magazine founded by B. C. Forbes in 1917 and owned by Hong Kong-based investment group Integrated Whale Media Investments since 2014.
France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.
Fraternal birth order and male sexual orientation
Fraternal birth order, also known as the older brother effect, has been correlated with male sexual orientation, with a significant volume of research finding that the more older brothers a male has from the same mother, the greater the probability he will have a homosexual orientation.
See Homosexuality and Fraternal birth order and male sexual orientation
Frontline AIDS
Frontline AIDS (formerly known as the International HIV/AIDS Alliance (IHAA) until 2019) is a global partnership of nationally based governmental and non-governmental organizations which support community organizations which promote HIV/AIDS issues in developing countries.
See Homosexuality and Frontline AIDS
Gala (priests)
The Gala (𒍑𒆪|translit.
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Gallup, Inc.
Gallup, Inc. is an American multinational analytics and advisory company based in Washington, D.C. Founded by George Gallup in 1935, the company became known for its public opinion polls conducted worldwide.
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Gay
Gay is a term that primarily refers to a homosexual person or the trait of being homosexual.
Gay affirmative psychotherapy
Gay affirmative psychotherapy is a form of psychotherapy for non-heterosexual people, specifically gay and lesbian clients, which focuses on client comfort in working towards authenticity and self-acceptance regarding sexual orientation, and does not attempt to "change" them to heterosexual, or to "eliminate or diminish" same-sex "desires and behaviors".
See Homosexuality and Gay affirmative psychotherapy
Gay bashing
Gay bashing is an attack, abuse, or assault committed against a person who is perceived by the aggressor to be gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender or queer (LGBTQ+).
See Homosexuality and Gay bashing
Gay liberation
The gay liberation movement was a social and political movement of the late 1960s through the mid-1980s in the Western world, that urged lesbians and gay men to engage in radical direct action, and to counter societal shame with gay pride.
See Homosexuality and Gay liberation
Gay men
Gay men are male homosexuals. Homosexuality and Gay men are LGBT studies.
Gay New York
Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890–1940 is a 1994 history book by George Chauncey about gay life in New York City during the early 20th century.
See Homosexuality and Gay New York
Gay-friendly
Gay-friendly or LGBT-friendly places, policies, people, or institutions are those that are open and welcoming to gay or LGBT people.
See Homosexuality and Gay-friendly
Gender
Gender includes the social, psychological, cultural and behavioral aspects of being a man, woman, or other gender identity.
Gender dysphoria
Gender dysphoria (GD) is the distress a person experiences due to a mismatch between their gender identitytheir personal sense of their own genderand their sex assigned at birth. Homosexuality and gender dysphoria are LGBT studies.
See Homosexuality and Gender dysphoria
Gender identity
Gender identity is the personal sense of one's own gender.
See Homosexuality and Gender identity
Genetics
Genetics is the study of genes, genetic variation, and heredity in organisms.
See Homosexuality and Genetics
George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham
George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, (28 August 1592 – 23 August 1628), was an English courtier, statesman, and patron of the arts.
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Georgia (U.S. state)
Georgia, officially the State of Georgia, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.
See Homosexuality and Georgia (U.S. state)
GLAAD
GLAAD is an American non-governmental media monitoring organization.
Glbtq: An encyclopedia of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer culture
glbtq.com (also known as the glbtq Encyclopedia Project) was an online encyclopedia of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer (GLBTQ) culture.
See Homosexuality and Glbtq: An encyclopedia of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer culture
Greek mythology
Greek mythology is the body of myths originally told by the ancient Greeks, and a genre of ancient Greek folklore, today absorbed alongside Roman mythology into the broader designation of classical mythology.
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Guido Westerwelle
Guido Westerwelle (27 December 1961 – 18 March 2016) was a German politician who served as foreign minister in the second cabinet of Chancellor Angela Merkel and Vice-Chancellor of Germany from 2009 to 2011, being the first openly gay person to hold any of these positions.
See Homosexuality and Guido Westerwelle
Hadrian
Hadrian (Publius Aelius Hadrianus; 24 January 76 – 10 July 138) was Roman emperor from 117 to 138.
Harm reduction
Harm reduction, or harm minimization, refers to a range of intentional practices and public health policies designed to lessen the negative social and/or physical consequences associated with various human behaviors, both legal and illegal.
See Homosexuality and Harm reduction
Hate crime
A hate crime (also known a bias crime) is crime where a perpetrator targets a victim because of their physical appearance or perceived membership of a certain social group.
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Hate speech
Hate speech is a term with varied meaning and has no single, consistent definition.
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Havelock Ellis
Henry Havelock Ellis (2 February 1859 – 8 July 1939) was an English-French physician, eugenicist, writer, progressive intellectual and social reformer who studied human sexuality.
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Hepatitis B
Hepatitis B is an infectious disease caused by the Hepatitis B virus (HBV) that affects the liver; it is a type of viral hepatitis.
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Heterosexism
Heterosexism is a system of attitudes, bias, and discrimination in favor of heterosexuality and heterosexual relationships.
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Heterosexuality
Heterosexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction or sexual behavior between people of the opposite sex or gender. Homosexuality and Heterosexuality are 1860s neologisms and love.
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Hinduism
Hinduism is an Indian religion or dharma, a religious and universal order by which its followers abide.
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Hinduism and LGBT topics
Hindu views of homosexuality and LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) issues more generally are diverse, and different Hindu groups have distinct views.
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History of Christianity
The history of Christianity follows the Christian religion as it developed from its earliest beliefs and practices in the first-century, spread geographically in the Roman Empire and beyond, and became a global religion in the twenty-first century.
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HIV
The human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV) are two species of Lentivirus (a subgroup of retrovirus) that infect humans.
HIV/AIDS
The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a retrovirus that attacks the immune system.
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Homoeroticism
Homoeroticism is sexual attraction between members of the same sex, including both male–male and female–female attraction.
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Homophobia
Homophobia encompasses a range of negative attitudes and feelings toward homosexuality or people who identify or are perceived as being lesbian, gay or bisexual.
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Homosexual behavior in animals
Various non-human animal species exhibit behavior that can be interpreted as homosexual or bisexual, often referred to as same-sex sexual behavior (SSSB) by scientists. Homosexuality and homosexual behavior in animals are LGBT studies.
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Homosexual Desire
Homosexual Desire (French: Le désir homosexuel) is a 1972 book by French intellectual Guy Hocquenghem.
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Homosexuality and religion
The relationship between religion and homosexuality has varied greatly across time and place, within and between different religions and denominations, with regard to different forms of homosexuality and bisexuality.
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Homosexuality in China
Homosexuality has been documented in China since ancient times.
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Homosociality
In sociology, homosociality means same-sex relationships that are not of a romantic or sexual nature, such as friendship, mentorship, or others.
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Honor killing
An honor killing (American English), honour killing (Commonwealth English), or shame killing is a traditional form of murder in which a person is killed by or at the behest of members of their family or their partner, due to culturally sanctioned beliefs that such homicides are necessary as retribution for the perceived dishonoring of the family by the victim.
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Hormone
A hormone (from the Greek participle ὁρμῶν, "setting in motion") is a class of signaling molecules in multicellular organisms that are sent to distant organs or tissues by complex biological processes to regulate physiology and behavior.
Hostile work environment
In United States labor law, a hostile work environment exists when one's behavior within a workplace creates an environment that is difficult or uncomfortable for another person to work in, due to illegal discrimination.
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Housing discrimination
Housing discrimination refers to patterns of discrimination that affect a person's ability to rent or buy housing.
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Human male sexuality
Human male sexuality encompasses a wide variety of feelings and behaviors.
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Human Rights Campaign
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) is an American LGBTQ advocacy group.
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Human sexual activity
Human sexual activity, human sexual practice or human sexual behaviour is the manner in which humans experience and express their sexuality.
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Human sexuality
Human sexuality is the way people experience and express themselves sexually.
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Hybrid word
A hybrid word or hybridism is a word that etymologically derives from at least two languages.
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ICD-10
ICD-10 is the 10th revision of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD), a medical classification list by the World Health Organization (WHO).
Identity (social science)
Identity is the set of qualities, beliefs, personality traits, appearance, and/or expressions that characterize a person or a group.
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Ilan Meyer
Ilan H. Meyer (born January 26, 1956) is an American psychiatric epidemiologist, author, professor, and a senior scholar for public policy and sexual orientation law at the Williams Institute of UCLA.
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Iliad
The Iliad (Iliás,; " about Ilion (Troy)") is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer.
Illinois
Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.
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Immorality
Immorality is the violation of moral laws, norms or standards.
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Inanna
Inanna is the ancient Mesopotamian goddess of love, war, and fertility.
Inca Empire
The Inca Empire, officially known as the Realm of the Four Parts (Tawantinsuyu, "four parts together"), was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America.
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Indian Penal Code
The Indian Penal Code (IPC) was the official criminal code in the Republic of India, inherited from British India after independence, until it was repealed and replaced by Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) in December 2023, which came into effect on 1 July 2024.
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Indiana
Indiana is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.
Infatuation
Infatuation or being smitten is the state of being carried away by an unreasoned passion, usually towards another person for whom one has developed strong romantic feelings. Homosexuality and Infatuation are love.
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Inquisition
The Inquisition was a judicial procedure and a group of institutions within the Catholic Church whose aim was to combat heresy, apostasy, blasphemy, witchcraft, and customs considered deviant.
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Intercrural sex
Intercrural sex, which is also known as coitus interfemoris, thigh sex, thighing, thighjob and interfemoral sex, is a type of non-penetrative sex in which the penis is placed between the receiving partner's thighs and friction is generated via thrusting.
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International Classification of Diseases
The International Classification of Diseases (ICD) is a globally used medical classification used in epidemiology, health management and for clinical purposes.
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Islam
Islam (al-Islām) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, the religion's founder.
Israel
Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant, West Asia.
Italy
Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.
J. Michael Bailey
John Michael Bailey (born July 2, 1957) is an American psychologist, behavioral geneticist, and professor at Northwestern University best known for his work on the etiology of sexual orientation and paraphilia.
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JAMA
JAMA (The Journal of the American Medical Association) is a peer-reviewed medical journal published 48 times a year by the American Medical Association.
James Pratt and John Smith
James Pratt (1805–1835), also known as John Pratt, and John Smith (1795–1835) were two London men who, in November 1835, became the last two to be executed for sodomy in England.
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Jeremy Bentham
Jeremy Bentham (4 February 1747/8 O.S. – 6 June 1832) was an English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer regarded as the founder of modern utilitarianism.
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John Addington Symonds
John Addington Symonds Jr. (5 October 1840 – 19 April 1893) was an English poet and literary critic.
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John Cleland
John Cleland (baptised – 23 January 1789) was an English novelist best known for his fictional Fanny Hill: or, the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, whose eroticism led to his arrest.
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Justinian I
Justinian I (Iūstīniānus,; Ioustinianós,; 48214 November 565), also known as Justinian the Great, was the Eastern Roman emperor from 527 to 565.
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Kameel Ahmady
Kameel Ahmady is a British-Iranian scholar working in the field of social anthropology, with a particular focus on gender, children, ethnic minorities, and child labour.
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Karl Heinrich Ulrichs
Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (28 August 1825 – 14 July 1895) was a German lawyer, jurist, journalist, and writer who is regarded today as a pioneer of sexology and the modern gay rights movement.
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Karl Maria Kertbeny
Károly Mária Kertbeny (born Karl Maria Benkert; 28 February 1824 – 23 January 1882) was a Hungarian journalist, translator, memoirist and human rights campaigner.
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Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum
Khnumhotep (ẖnm.w-ḥtp(.w)) and Niankhkhnum (nj-ꜥnḫ-ẖnm.w) were two male ancient Egyptian royal servants.
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Kin selection
Kin selection is a process whereby natural selection favours a trait due to its positive effects on the reproductive success of an organism's relatives, even when at a cost to the organism's own survival and reproduction.
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Kingdom of Prussia
The Kingdom of Prussia (Königreich Preußen) constituted the German state of Prussia between 1701 and 1918.
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Kinsey Institute
The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction (often shortened to The Kinsey Institute) is a research institute at Indiana University.
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Kinsey Reports
The Kinsey Reports are two scholarly books on human sexual behavior, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953), written by Alfred Kinsey, Wardell Pomeroy, Clyde Martin, and (for Sexual Behavior in the Human Female) Paul Gebhard and published by W.B. Saunders.
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Kinsey scale
The Kinsey scale, also called the Heterosexual–Homosexual Rating Scale, is used in research to describe a person's sexual orientation based on one's experience or response at a given time.
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Labour Party (UK)
The Labour Party is a social democratic political party in the United Kingdom that sits on the centre-left of the political spectrum.
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Latin America
Latin America often refers to the regions in the Americas in which Romance languages are the main languages and the culture and Empires of its peoples have had significant historical, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural impact.
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Lawrence v. Texas
Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558 (2003), is a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that U.S. state laws criminalizing sodomy between consenting adults are unconstitutional.
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Lesbian
A lesbian is a homosexual woman or girl.
Lesbophobia
Lesbophobia comprises various forms of prejudice and negativity towards lesbians as individuals, as couples, as a social group, or lesbianism in general.
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Lesbos
Lesbos or Lesvos (Lésvos) is a Greek island located in the northeastern Aegean Sea.
Lesotho
Lesotho, formally the Kingdom of Lesotho, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa.
LGBT
is an initialism that stands for "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender".
LGBT community
The LGBT community (also known as the LGBTQ+ community, LGBTQIA+ community, GLBT community, or queer community) is a loosely defined grouping of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals united by a common culture and social movements.
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LGBT history
LGBT history dates back to the first recorded instances of same-sex love and sexuality of ancient civilizations, involving the history of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) peoples and cultures around the world.
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LGBT movements
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) movements are social movements that advocate for LGBT people in society.
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LGBT music
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer+ (LGBTQ+) music is music that focuses on the experiences of gender and sexual minorities as a product of the broad gay liberation movement.
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LGBT people and military service
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) personnel are able to serve in the armed forces of some countries around the world: the vast majority of industrialized, Western countries including some South American countries, such as Argentina, Brazil and Chile in addition to other countries, such as the United States, Canada, Japan, Australia, Mexico, France, Finland, Denmark and Israel.
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LGBT pride
LGBT pride (also known as gay pride or simply pride) is the promotion of the self-affirmation, dignity, equality, and increased visibility of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people as a social group.
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LGBT rights at the United Nations
Discussions of LGBT rights at the United Nations have included resolutions and joint statements in the United Nations General Assembly and the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), attention to the expert-led human rights mechanisms (such as the United Nations Treaty Bodies and Special Procedures), as well as by the UN Agencies.
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LGBT rights by country or territory
Rights affecting lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people vary greatly by country or jurisdiction—encompassing everything from the legal recognition of same-sex marriage to the death penalty for homosexuality.
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LGBT rights in Denmark
Danish lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights are some of the most extensive in the world.
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LGBT rights in Poland
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in Poland face legal challenges not experienced by non-LGBT residents.
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LGBT rights in Sweden
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights in Sweden are regarded as some of the most progressive in Europe and the world.
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LGBT rights in the United Kingdom
The rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland have developed significantly over time.
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LGBT stereotypes
LGBT stereotypes are stereotypes about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people based on their sexual orientations, gender identities, or gender expressions.
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LGBT themes in mythology
LGBT themes in mythology occur in mythologies and religious narratives that include stories of romantic affection or sexuality between figures of the same sex or that feature divine actions that result in changes in gender.
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LGBT tourism
LGBT tourism (or gay tourism) is a form of tourism marketed to gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people.
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Lieblingminne und Freundesliebe in der Weltliteratur
Lieblingminne und Freundesliebe in der Weltliteratur is an anthology of poetry about homosexuality, compiled by the German artist Elisar von Kupffer (Elisarion) and first published in 1900.
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Ligature (writing)
In writing and typography, a ligature occurs where two or more graphemes or letters are joined to form a single glyph.
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List of ethnic slurs
The following is a list of ethnic slurs, ethnophaulisms, or ethnic epithets that are, or have been, used as insinuations or allegations about members of a given ethnic, national, or racial group or to refer to them in a derogatory, pejorative, or otherwise insulting manner.
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List of gay, lesbian or bisexual people
This is a list of notable gay men, lesbian or bisexual people who have been open about their sexuality.
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List of nonfiction books about homosexuality
This is a list of nonfiction books about homosexuality ordered by author last name.
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Liu Song dynasty
Song, known as Liu Song, Former Song (前宋) or Song of (the) Southern dynasties (南朝宋) in historiography, was an imperial dynasty of China and the first of the four Southern dynasties during the Northern and Southern dynasties period.
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London Review of Books
The London Review of Books (LRB) is a British literary magazine published bimonthly (twice a month) that features articles and essays on fiction and non-fiction subjects, which are usually structured as book reviews.
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Longtime Companion
Longtime Companion is a 1989 American romantic drama film directed by Norman René and starring Bruce Davison, Campbell Scott, Patrick Cassidy, and Mary-Louise Parker.
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Lord Byron
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824) was a British poet and peer.
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Love
Love encompasses a range of strong and positive emotional and mental states, from the most sublime virtue or good habit, the deepest interpersonal affection, to the simplest pleasure.
Magnus Hirschfeld
Magnus T. Hirschfeld (14 May 1868 – 14 May 1935) was a Jewish German physician and sexologist, whose citizenship was later revoked by the Nazi government.
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Mahabharata
The Mahābhārata (महाभारतम्) is one of the two major Smriti texts and Sanskrit epics of ancient India revered in Hinduism, the other being the Rāmāyaṇa.
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (Mahmūd Ahmadīnežād,; born Mahmoud Sabbaghian on 28 October 1956) is an Iranian principlist and nationalist politician who served as the sixth president of Iran from 2005 to 2013.
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Major depressive disorder
Major depressive disorder (MDD), also known as clinical depression, is a mental disorder characterized by at least two weeks of pervasive low mood, low self-esteem, and loss of interest or pleasure in normally enjoyable activities.
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Marind people
The Marind or Marind-Anim are an ethnic group of New Guinea, residing in the province of South Papua, Indonesia.
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Marlene Zuk
Marlene Zuk (born May 20, 1956) is an American evolutionary biologist and behavioral ecologist.
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Matthew Shepard
Matthew Wayne Shepard (December 1, 1976 – October 12, 1998) was a gay American student at the University of Wyoming who was beaten, tortured, and left to die near Laramie on the night of October 6, 1998.
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Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act
The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr.
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Mauritania
Mauritania, officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, is a sovereign country in Northwest Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Western Sahara to the north and northwest, Algeria to the northeast, Mali to the east and southeast, and Senegal to the southwest. By land area Mauritania is the 11th-largest country in Africa and 28th-largest in the world; 90% of its territory is in the Sahara.
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Maya civilization
The Maya civilization was a Mesoamerican civilization that existed from antiquity to the early modern period.
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Medical genetics
Medical genetics is the branch of medicine that involves the diagnosis and management of hereditary disorders.
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Melanesia
Melanesia is a subregion of Oceania in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.
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Men who have sex with men
Men who have sex with men (MSM) refers to all men who engage in sexual activity with other men, regardless of their sexual orientation or sexual identity.
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Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia is a historical region of West Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the Fertile Crescent.
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Methylation
Methylation, in the chemical sciences, is the addition of a methyl group on a substrate, or the substitution of an atom (or group) by a methyl group.
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Michael Ruse
Michael Ruse (born 21 June 1940) is a British-born Canadian philosopher of science who specializes in the philosophy of biology and works on the relationship between science and religion, the creation–evolution controversy, and the demarcation problem within science.
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Military
A military, also known collectively as an armed forces, are a heavily armed, highly organized force primarily intended for warfare.
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Millennials
Millennials, also known as Generation Y or Gen Y, are the demographic cohort following Generation X and preceding Generation Z. Researchers and popular media use the early 1980s as starting birth years and the mid-1990s to early 2000s as ending birth years, with the generation typically being defined as people born from 1981 to 1996.
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Ministry of finance
A ministry of finance is a ministry or other government agency in charge of government finance, fiscal policy, and financial regulation.
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Minority stress
Minority stress describes high levels of stress faced by members of stigmatized minority groups.
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Missionary
A missionary is a member of a religious group who is sent into an area in order to promote its faith or provide services to people, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care, and economic development.
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Moche culture
The Moche civilization (alternatively, the Moche culture or the Early, Pre- or Proto-Chimú) flourished in northern Peru with its capital near present-day Moche, Trujillo, Peru from about 100 to 700 AD during the Regional Development Epoch.
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Morocco
Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa.
Motsoalle
Motsoalle is the term for socially acceptable, long-term relationships between Basotho women in Lesotho.
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Munich
Munich (München) is the capital and most populous city of the Free State of Bavaria, Germany.
National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality
The Alliance for Therapeutic Choice and Scientific Integrity (ATCSI), which until 2014 was known as the National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH), also known as the NARTH Institute, is a US organization that promotes conversion therapy, a pseudoscientific practice used in attempts to change the sexual orientation of people with same-sex attraction.
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National Association of Social Workers
The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) is a professional organization of social workers in the United States.
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National Institute of Mental Health
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is one of 27 institutes and centers that make up the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
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National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
The National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research or NIWA (Taihoro Nukurangi), is a Crown Research Institute of New Zealand.
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National Review
National Review is an American conservative editorial magazine, focusing on news and commentary pieces on political, social, and cultural affairs.
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Nationality
Nationality is the legal status of belonging to a particular nation, defined as a group of people organized in one country, under one legal jurisdiction, or as a group of people who are united on the basis of culture.
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NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO; Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord, OTAN), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance of 32 member states—30 European and 2 North American.
Nature (journal)
Nature is a British weekly scientific journal founded and based in London, England.
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NDTV
New Delhi Television Ltd is an Indian news media company focusing on broadcast and digital news publication.
Netherlands
The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country located in Northwestern Europe with overseas territories in the Caribbean.
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New Statesman
The New Statesman (known from 1931 to 1964 as the New Statesman and Nation) is a British political and cultural news magazine published in London.
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New York Law Journal
The New York Law Journal, founded in 1888, is a legal periodical covering the legal profession in New York, United States.
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Nigeria
Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa.
Nine Lyric Poets
The Nine Lyric or Melic Poets were a canonical group of ancient Greek poets esteemed by the scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria as worthy of critical study.
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Non-heterosexual
Non-heterosexual is a word for a sexual orientation or sexual identity that is not heterosexual.
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Norway
Norway (Norge, Noreg), formally the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula.
Open Library
Open Library is an online project intended to create "one web page for every book ever published".
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Oral sex
Oral sex, sometimes referred to as oral intercourse, is sexual activity involving the stimulation of the genitalia of a person by another person using the mouth (including the lips, tongue, or teeth).
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Orthodox Presbyterian Church
The Orthodox Presbyterian Church (OPC) is a confessional Presbyterian denomination located primarily in the United States, with additional congregations in Canada, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico.
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Out (magazine)
Out is an American LGBTQ news, fashion, entertainment, and lifestyle magazine, with the highest circulation of any LGBTQ monthly publication in the United States.
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Outing
Outing is the act of disclosing an LGBT person's sexual orientation or gender identity without that person's consent.
Pair bond
In biology, a pair bond is the strong affinity that develops in some species between a mating pair, often leading to the production and rearing of young and potentially a lifelong bond.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Palgrave Macmillan is a British academic and trade publishing company headquartered in the London Borough of Camden.
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Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and its offshore islands in Melanesia (a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia).
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Paragraph 175
Paragraph 175 (known formally as; also known as Section 175 in English) was a provision of the German Criminal Code from 15 May 1871 to 10 March 1994.
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Parenting
Parenting or child rearing promotes and supports the physical, emotional, social, spiritual and cognitive development of a child from infancy to adulthood.
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Pedagogy
Pedagogy, most commonly understood as the approach to teaching, is the theory and practice of learning, and how this process influences, and is influenced by, the social, political, and psychological development of learners.
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Pederasty
Pederasty or paederasty is a sexual relationship between an adult man and a boy.
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Pederasty in ancient Greece
Pederasty in ancient Greece was a socially acknowledged romantic relationship between an older male (the erastes) and a younger male (the eromenos) usually in his teens.
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Pediatrics (journal)
Pediatrics is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal published by the American Academy of Pediatrics.
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Pejorative
A pejorative word, phrase, slur, or derogatory term is a word or grammatical form expressing a negative or disrespectful connotation, a low opinion, or a lack of respect toward someone or something.
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Per-Kristian Foss
Per-Kristian Foss (born 19 July 1950) is a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party and from 2014 to 2021 the Auditor General of Norway.
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Pete Buttigieg
Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg (born January 19, 1982) is an American politician and former naval officer who is serving as the 19th United States secretary of transportation.
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Peter Mandelson
Peter Benjamin Mandelson, Baron Mandelson (born 21 October 1953), is a British Labour Party politician who served as First Secretary of State from 2009 to 2010.
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Philadelphia (film)
Philadelphia is a 1993 American legal drama film written by Ron Nyswaner, directed by Jonathan Demme and starring Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington.
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Philhellenism
Philhellenism ("the love of Greek culture") was an intellectual movement prominent mostly at the turn of the 19th century.
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Physical abuse
Physical abuse is any intentional act causing injury or trauma to another person or animal by way of bodily contact.
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Pierre Trudeau
Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau (October 18, 1919 – September 28, 2000) was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 15th prime minister of Canada from 1968 to 1979 and from 1980 to 1984.
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Plato
Plato (Greek: Πλάτων), born Aristocles (Ἀριστοκλῆς; – 348 BC), was an ancient Greek philosopher of the Classical period who is considered a foundational thinker in Western philosophy and an innovator of the written dialogue and dialectic forms.
Political correctness
"Political correctness" (adjectivally "politically correct"; commonly abbreviated to P.C.) is a term used to describe language, policies, or measures that are intended to avoid offense or disadvantage to members of particular groups in society.
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Political identity
Political identity is a form of social identity marking membership of certain groups that share a common struggle for a certain form of power.
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Popular initiative
A popular initiative (also citizens' initiative) is a form of direct democracy by which a petition meeting certain hurdles can force a legal procedure on a proposition.
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Prejudice
Prejudice can be an affective feeling towards a person based on their perceived group membership.
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Prenatal testing
Prenatal testing is a tool that can be used to detect some birth defects at various stages prior to birth.
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Primate
Primates is an order of mammals, which is further divided into the strepsirrhines, which include lemurs, galagos, and lorisids; and the haplorhines, which include tarsiers; and the simians, which include monkeys and apes.
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press is an independent publisher with close connections to Princeton University.
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Proverb
A proverb (from proverbium) or an adage is a simple, traditional saying that expresses a perceived truth based on common sense or experience.
Psychological Science in the Public Interest
Psychological Science in the Public Interest (PSPI) is a triannual peer-reviewed open access academic journal covering issues in psychology of interest to the public at large.
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Psychopathia Sexualis
Psychopathia Sexualis: eine Klinisch-Forensische Studie (Sexual Psychopathy: A Clinical-Forensic Study, also known as Psychopathia Sexualis, with Especial Reference to the Antipathetic Sexual Instinct: A Medico-forensic Study) is an 1886 book by Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing and one of the first texts about sexual pathology.
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Public Health Agency of Canada
The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC; Agence de la santé publique du Canada, ASPC) is an agency of the Government of Canada that is responsible for public health, emergency preparedness and response, and infectious and chronic disease control and prevention.
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Qing dynasty
The Qing dynasty, officially the Great Qing, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last imperial dynasty in Chinese history.
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Quebec
QuebecAccording to the Canadian government, Québec (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and Quebec (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.
Quechua people
Quechua people or Quichua people may refer to any of the indigenous peoples of South America who speak the Quechua languages, which originated among the Indigenous people of Peru.
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Queer
Queer is an umbrella term for people who are not heterosexual or are not cisgender.
Queer Eye (2003 TV series)
Queer Eye is an American reality television series that premiered on the Bravo network in July 2003, initially broadcast as Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.
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Queer studies
Queer studies, sexual diversity studies, or LGBT studies is the study of topics relating to sexual orientation and gender identity usually focusing on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, gender dysphoric, asexual, queer, questioning, and intersex people and cultures. Homosexuality and queer studies are LGBT studies.
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Queer theory
Queer theory is a field of post-structuralist critical theory that emerged in the early 1990s out of queer studies (formerly often known as gay and lesbian studies) and women's studies. Homosexuality and queer theory are LGBT studies.
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Race (human categorization)
Race is a categorization of humans based on shared physical or social qualities into groups generally viewed as distinct within a given society.
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Reappropriation
In linguistics, reappropriation, reclamation, or resignification is the cultural process by which a group reclaims words or artifacts that were previously used in a way disparaging of that group.
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Referendum
A referendum (referendums or less commonly referenda) is a direct vote by the electorate on a proposal, law, or political issue.
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Religion
Religion is a range of social-cultural systems, including designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relate humanity to supernatural, transcendental, and spiritual elements—although there is no scholarly consensus over what precisely constitutes a religion.
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Religion and sexuality
The views of the various different religions and religious believers regarding human sexuality range widely among and within them, from giving sex and sexuality a rather negative connotation to believing that sex is the highest expression of the divine.
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Religious denomination
A religious denomination is a subgroup within a religion that operates under a common name and tradition, among other activities.
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Renaissance
The Renaissance is a period of history and a European cultural movement covering the 15th and 16th centuries.
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Reproductive success
Reproductive success is an individual's production of offspring per breeding event or lifetime.
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Republic of China (1912–1949)
The Republic of China (ROC), or simply China, as a sovereign state was based on mainland China from 1912 to 1949, when the government retreated to Taiwan, where it continues to be based.
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Reuters
Reuters is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters.
Richard von Krafft-Ebing
Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing (full name Richard Fridolin Joseph Freiherr Krafft von Festenberg auf Frohnberg, genannt von Ebing; 14 August 1840 – 22 December 1902) was a German psychiatrist and author of the foundational work Psychopathia Sexualis (1886).
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Riddle scale
The Riddle scale (also known as Riddle homophobia scale or Riddle scale of homophobia) was a psychometric scale that measured the degree to which a person is or is not homophobic.
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Romance (love)
Romance or romantic love is a feeling of love for, or a strong attraction towards another person, and the courtship behaviors undertaken by an individual to express those overall feelings and resultant emotions. Homosexuality and Romance (love) are love.
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Royal College of Psychiatrists
The Royal College of Psychiatrists is the main professional organisation of psychiatrists in the United Kingdom, and is responsible for representing psychiatrists, for psychiatric research and for providing public information about mental health problems.
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Russia
Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.
Safe sex
Safe sex is sexual activity using methods or contraceptive devices (such as condoms) to reduce the risk of transmitting or acquiring sexually transmitted infections (STIs), especially HIV.
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Sage Publishing
Sage Publishing, formerly SAGE Publications, is an American independent academic publishing company, founded in 1965 in New York City by Sara Miller McCune and now based in the Newbury Park neighborhood of Thousand Oaks, California.
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Same-sex adoption
Same-sex adoption is the adoption of children by same-sex couples.
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Same-sex marriage
Same-sex marriage, also known as gay marriage, is the marriage of two people of the same legal sex.
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Same-sex marriage in the United States
The availability of legally recognized same-sex marriage in the United States expanded from one state (Massachusetts) in 2004 to all fifty states in 2015 through various court rulings, state legislation, and direct popular votes.
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Same-sex parenting
Same-sex parenting (also known as rainbow families) is the parenting of children by same-sex couples generally consisting of gays or lesbians who are often in civil partnerships, domestic partnerships, civil unions, or same-sex marriages.
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Same-sex relationship
A same-sex relationship is a romantic or sexual relationship between people of the same sex.
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San Francisco
San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center in Northern California.
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Sapphism
Sapphism is an umbrella term for any woman attracted to women or in a relationship with another woman, regardless of their sexual orientations, and encompassing the romantic love between women.
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Sappho
Sappho (Σαπφώ Sapphṓ; Aeolic Greek Ψάπφω Psápphō) was an Archaic Greek poet from Eresos or Mytilene on the island of Lesbos.
Scientific-Humanitarian Committee
The Scientific-Humanitarian Committee (WhK) was founded by Magnus Hirschfeld in Berlin in May 1897, to campaign for social recognition of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, and against their legal persecution.
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Section 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Section 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms contains guaranteed equality rights.
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Sex
Sex is the biological trait that determines whether a sexually reproducing organism produces male or female gametes.
Sexual attraction
Sexual attraction is attraction on the basis of sexual desire or the quality of arousing such interest.
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Sexual harassment
Sexual harassment is a type of harassment involving the use of explicit or implicit sexual overtones, including the unwelcome and inappropriate promises of rewards in exchange for sexual favors.
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Sexual identity
Sexual identity refers to one's self-perception in terms of romantic or sexual attraction towards others, though not mutually exclusive, and can be different from romantic identity.
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Sexual orientation
Sexual orientation is an enduring personal pattern of romantic attraction or sexual attraction (or a combination of these) to persons of the opposite sex or gender, the same sex or gender, or to both sexes or more than one gender.
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Sexual practices between men
Sexual activities involving men who have sex with men (MSM), regardless of their sexual orientation or sexual identity, can include anal sex, non-penetrative sex, and oral sex.
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Sexual practices between women
Sexual activities involving women who have sex with women (WSW), regardless of their sexual orientation or sexual identity, can include oral sex, manual sex, or tribadism.
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Sexuality and gender identity-based cultures
Sexuality and gender identity-based cultures are subcultures and communities composed of people who have shared experiences, backgrounds, or interests due to common sexual or gender identities.
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Sexuality of Frederick the Great
It is almost certain that Prussian King Frederick the Great (1712–1786) was primarily homosexual, and that his sexual orientation was central to his life.
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Sexuality of James VI and I
From the age of thirteen until his death, the life of King James VI of Scotland and I of England (1566–1625) was characterised by close relationships with a series of male favourites.
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Sexually transmitted infection
A sexually transmitted infection (STI), also referred to as a sexually transmitted disease (STD) and the older term venereal disease (VD), is an infection that is spread by sexual activity, especially vaginal intercourse, anal sex, oral sex, or sometimes manual sex.
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Shamanism
Shamanism or samanism is a religious practice that involves a practitioner (shaman or saman) interacting with the spirit world through altered states of consciousness, such as trance.
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Sharia
Sharia (sharīʿah) is a body of religious law that forms a part of the Islamic tradition based on scriptures of Islam, particularly the Quran and hadith.
Sheep
Sheep (sheep) or domestic sheep (Ovis aries) are a domesticated, ruminant mammal typically kept as livestock.
Shikhandi
Shikhandi (translit) is a character in the Hindu epic Mahabharata.
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Simon LeVay
Simon LeVay (born 28 August 1943 in Oxford, England) is a British-American neuroscientist.
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Social conservatism
Social conservatism is a political philosophy and a variety of conservatism which places emphasis on traditional social structures over social pluralism.
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Social constructionism
Social constructionism is a term used in sociology, social ontology, and communication theory.
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Social group
In the social sciences, a social group is defined as two or more people who interact with one another, share similar characteristics, and collectively have a sense of unity.
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Social norm
Social norms are shared standards of acceptable behavior by groups.
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Social rejection
Social rejection occurs when an individual is deliberately excluded from a social relationship or social interaction.
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Social research
Social research is research conducted by social scientists following a systematic plan.
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Societal attitudes toward homosexuality
Societal attitudes toward homosexuality vary greatly across different cultures and historical periods, as do attitudes toward sexual desire, activity and relationships in general.
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Socrates
Socrates (– 399 BC) was a Greek philosopher from Athens who is credited as the founder of Western philosophy and as among the first moral philosophers of the ethical tradition of thought.
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Sodomy
Sodomy, also called buggery in British English, generally refers to either anal sex (but occasionally also oral sex) between people, or any sexual activity between a human and another animal (bestiality).
Sodomy law
A sodomy law is a law that defines certain sexual acts as crimes.
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South Carolina
South Carolina is a state in the coastal Southeastern region of the United States.
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Spanish colonization of the Americas
The Spanish colonization of the Americas began in 1493 on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic) after the initial 1492 voyage of Genoese mariner Christopher Columbus under license from Queen Isabella I of Castile.
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Springer Nature
Springer Nature or the Springer Nature Group is a German-British academic publishing company created by the May 2015 merger of Springer Science+Business Media and Holtzbrinck Publishing Group's Nature Publishing Group, Palgrave Macmillan, and Macmillan Education.
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Springer Publishing
Springer Publishing Company is an American publishing company of academic journals and books, focusing on the fields of nursing, gerontology, psychology, social work, counseling, public health, and rehabilitation (neuropsychology).
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Springer Science+Business Media
Springer Science+Business Media, commonly known as Springer, is a German multinational publishing company of books, e-books and peer-reviewed journals in science, humanities, technical and medical (STM) publishing.
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St. Martin's Press
St.
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Stephen O. Murray
Stephen O. Murray (May 4, 1950August 27, 2019) was an American anthropologist, sociologist, and independent scholar based in San Francisco, California.
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Stereotype
In social psychology, a stereotype is a generalized belief about a particular category of people.
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Style guide
A style guide is a set of standards for the writing, formatting, and design of documents.
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Substance abuse
Substance abuse, also known as drug abuse, is the use of a drug in amounts or by methods that are harmful to the individual or others.
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Sumer
Sumer is the earliest known civilization, located in the historical region of southern Mesopotamia (now south-central Iraq), emerging during the Chalcolithic and early Bronze Ages between the sixth and fifth millennium BC.
Supreme Court of California
The Supreme Court of California is the highest and final court of appeals in the courts of the U.S. state of California.
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Supreme Court of Canada
The Supreme Court of Canada (SCC; Cour suprême du Canada, CSC) is the highest court in the judicial system of Canada.
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Supreme Court of India
The Supreme Court of India (ISO: Bhārata kā Sarvōcca Nyāyālaya) is the supreme judicial authority and the highest court of the Republic of India.
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Supreme Court of the United States
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States.
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Symposium
In Ancient Greece, the symposium (συμπόσιον, sympósion or symposio, from συμπίνειν, sympínein, "to drink together") was the part of a banquet that took place after the meal, when drinking for pleasure was accompanied by music, dancing, recitals, or conversation.
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Tang dynasty
The Tang dynasty (唐朝), or the Tang Empire, was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 618 to 907, with an interregnum between 690 and 705.
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Taylor & Francis
Taylor & Francis Group is an international company originating in England that publishes books and academic journals.
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Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv-Yafo (translit,; translit), usually referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the Gush Dan metropolitan area of Israel.
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Tel Aviv Pride
Tel Aviv Pride (Hebrew: מצעד הגאווה בתל אביב, Arabic: فخر تل أبيب) is a week-long series of events in Tel Aviv which takes place on the second week of June, as part of the international observance of Gay Pride Month.
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Terminology of homosexuality
Terms used to describe homosexuality have gone through many changes since the emergence of the first terms in the mid-19th century.
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The Advocate (magazine)
The Advocate is an American LGBT magazine, printed bi-monthly and available by subscription.
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The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe, also known locally as the Globe, is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts.
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The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.
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The Free Dictionary
The Free Dictionary is an American online dictionary and encyclopedia that aggregates information from various sources.
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The Independent
The Independent is a British online newspaper.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The Trevor Project
The Trevor Project is an American nonprofit organization founded in 1998.
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Theodosius I
Theodosius I (Θεοδόσιος; 11 January 347 – 17 January 395), also called Theodosius the Great, was a Roman emperor from 379 to 395.
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Third gender
Third gender is a concept in which individuals are categorized, either by themselves or by society, as neither a man or woman.
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Thomas Cannon (author)
Thomas Cannon (1720–?)Gladfelder, Hal Fanny Hill in Bombay: The Making and Unmaking of John Cleland, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012, p. 46 of Gray's Inn was an English author of the 18th century.
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Transgender
A transgender person (often shortened to trans person) is someone whose gender identity differs from that typically associated with the sex they were assigned at birth. Homosexuality and transgender are LGBT studies.
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Trevor (film)
Trevor is a 1994 American short film directed by Peggy Rajski, produced by Randy Stone and Peggy Rajski, and written by Celeste Lecesne.
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Tupinambá people
The Tupinambá (Tupinambás) are one of the various Tupi ethnic groups that inhabit present-day Brazil, and whom had been living there long before the conquest of the region by Portuguese colonial settlers.
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Twin study
Twin studies are studies conducted on identical or fraternal twins.
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Two-spirit
Two-spirit (also known as two spirit or occasionally twospirited) is a umbrella term used by some Indigenous North Americans to describe Native people who fulfill a traditional third-gender (or other gender-variant) social role in their communities.
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Unit cohesion
Unit cohesion is a military concept, defined by one former United States Chief of staff in the early 1980s as "the bonding together of soldiers in such a way as to sustain their will and commitment to each other, the unit, and mission accomplishment, despite combat or mission stress".
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.
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United Nations Security Council
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN) and is charged with ensuring international peace and security, recommending the admission of new UN members to the General Assembly, and approving any changes to the UN Charter.
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United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
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United States census
The United States census (plural censuses or census) is a census that is legally mandated by the Constitution of the United States.
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United States Secretary of Transportation
The United States secretary of transportation is the head of the United States Department of Transportation.
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University of Chicago Press
The University of Chicago Press is the university press of the University of Chicago, a private research university in Chicago, Illinois.
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USA Today
USA Today (often stylized in all caps) is an American daily middle-market newspaper and news broadcasting company.
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Venice
Venice (Venezia; Venesia, formerly Venexia) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region.
Verbal abuse
Verbal abuse (also known as verbal aggression, verbal attack, verbal violence, verbal assault, psychic aggression, or psychic violence) is a type of psychological/mental abuse that involves the use of oral, gestured, and written language directed to a victim.
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Vice-Chancellor of Germany
The vice-chancellor of Germany, officially the deputy to the federal chancellor, is the second highest ranking German cabinet member.
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Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States.
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Western world
The Western world, also known as the West, primarily refers to various nations and states in the regions of Australasia, Western Europe, and Northern America; with some debate as to whether those in Eastern Europe and Latin America also constitute the West.
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Westernization
Westernization (or Westernisation, see spelling differences), also Europeanisation or occidentalization (from the Occident), is a process whereby societies come under or adopt what is considered to be Western culture, in areas such as industry, technology, science, education, politics, economics, lifestyle, law, norms, mores, customs, traditions, values, mentality, perceptions, diet, clothing, language, writing system, religion, and philosophy.
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Will Roscoe
Will Roscoe (February 8, 1955) is an American activist, scholar, and author based in San Francisco, California.
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Williams Institute
The Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Law and Public Policy, usually shortened to Williams Institute, is a public policy research institute based at the UCLA School of Law focused on sexual orientation and gender identities issues.
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Women who have sex with women
Women who have sex with women (WSW) are women who engage in sexual activities with women, whether they identify as straight, lesbian, bisexual, pansexual, have other sexualities, or dispense with sexual identification altogether.
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World Health Organization
The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health.
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Wyoming
Wyoming is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.
X chromosome
The X chromosome is one of the two sex chromosomes in many organisms, including mammals, and is found in both males and females.
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Xq28
Xq28 is a chromosome band and genetic marker situated at the tip of the X chromosome which has been studied since at least 1980.
Yemen
Yemen (al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen, is a sovereign state in West Asia.
Zapotec civilization
The Zapotec civilization ("The People"; 700 BC–1521 AD) is an indigenous pre-Columbian civilization that flourished in the Valley of Oaxaca in Mesoamerica.
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See also
1860s neologisms
- Creative class
- Darwinism
- Dystopias
- End of history
- England's difficulty is Ireland's opportunity
- Evil laughter
- Girlfriend
- Great American Novel
- Heterosexuality
- Homosexuality
- Illth
- Julian March
- Lorna
- Mesolithic
- Mind over matter
- Mother of parliaments
- Neolithic
- Nosferatu (word)
- Scalawag
- See a man about a dog
- Sensation novel
- Silly season
- Uranian (sexuality)
LGBT studies
- Aromanticism
- Asexuality
- Bisexuality
- Disability and LGBT identities
- Education sector responses to LGBT violence
- Feminist theory
- Filipino American LGBT Studies
- Gay men
- Gay separatism
- Gender dysphoria
- Gender fluidity
- Homonationalism
- Homosexual behavior in animals
- Homosexual behavior in sheep
- Homosexuality
- Homosexuality and psychology
- Homosexuality in the DSM
- LGBT psychology
- Man's Country (bathhouse)
- Ottawa Trans Library
- Queer anti-urbanism
- Queer studies
- Queer theory
- Sex hormone
- Sexuality and space
- Transgender
- Transgender studies
Psychiatric false diagnosis
- Cage (rapper)
- David Rosenhan
- Drapetomania
- Duplessis Orphans
- Dysaesthesia aethiopica
- Günter Weigand
- Gustl Mollath
- Homosexuality
- Martha Mitchell effect
- Nellie Bly
- Norah Vincent
- Political abuses of psychiatry
- Rosenhan experiment
- Sluggish schizophrenia
- Wastebasket diagnosis
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