homosexual conduct between consenting adults is legal in Turkey, but far from accepted.
homosexual acts come naturally to them, heterosexual acts do not.
Okay, but still, “homosexual persons are called to chastity.”
Stanley Kauffman in the Times complained of “homosexual Drama and Its Disguises.”
In March 2009, Lively arrived in Uganda to headline the “Seminar on Exposing the homosexual Agenda.”
homosexual intimacies between girls are far more often platonic than similar intimacies between boys.
homosexual relationships are also a cause of suicide among women.
homosexual love has played a much greater part in the world's history than is generally believed.
homosexual choice of object is originally more natural to narcism than the heterosexual.
homosexual practices everywhere flourish and abound in prisons.
1892, in C.G. Chaddock's translation of Krafft-Ebing's "Psychopathia Sexualis," from German homosexual, homosexuale (by 1880, in Gustav Jäger), from homo-, comb. form of Greek homos "same" (see homo- (1)) + Latin-based sexual.
"Homosexual" is a barbarously hybrid word, and I claim no responsibility for it. It is, however, convenient, and now widely used. "Homogenic" has been suggested as a substitute. [H. Havelock Ellis, "Studies in Psychology," 1897]Sexual inversion (1883) was an earlier clinical term for it in English. The noun is recorded by 1895. In technical use, either male or female; but in non-technical use almost always male. Slang shortened form homo first attested 1929.
homosexual ho·mo·sex·u·al (hō'mə-sěk'shōō-əl, -mō-)
adj.
Of, relating to, or having a sexual orientation to persons of the same sex. n.
A homosexual person; a gay man or a lesbian.
