History – The Sydney Mardi Gras march of 1978
International Gay Guide is paying deep respect to Sydney gay and lesbian activists who fought for their and our rights.
Read moreInternational Gay Guide is paying deep respect to Sydney gay and lesbian activists who fought for their and our rights.
Read moreWe’ve talked before about how the ancient Chinese story about the bitten peach became a euphemism for homosexual love, but it isn’t the only ancient Chinese story about an emperor and another guy falling in love that has essentially been trimmed down to a short coded phrase — in this case “the passion of the cut sleeve.” I know, I know, it sounds like it’s about an enthusiastic but inept tailor. It’s not — it’s about Emperor Ai of Han.
Read moreDecades before gay marriage became legal anywhere in the US, same-sex couples were committing themselves to each other in front
Read moreBy Worldqueerstory.org I hope that almost anyone reading this site knows at least something about Matthew Shepard — whose face became
Read moreGreek Philosophers A review of the surviving historical written records from the three greatest philosophers, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle will
Read moreThe Gay Of The Samurai All About Homosexuality, Buddhist Monks, Samurai, and The Tokugawa Middle Class by Koichi As it
Read more“The pederastic form of same-sex relationships was a prominent feature of ancient Greece and Roman civilization. In these civilizations, male erotic interest in persons of the same sex was generally assumed to be universally present and psychologically normal, but not exclusive.” (Greenberg,Transformations of Homosexuality-Based Classifications, p. 181 in The Gender/Sexuality Reader Culture, History, Politico Economy, editors Roger N. Lancaster and Micaela di Leonardo.)
Read moreHomosexuality in Ancient Greece Section One Homosexuality in Ancient Greece will be comprised of three sections. They will deal with
Read moreHomosexuality as a Sin Same-sex sexual acts have a history; today they are called “homosexuality”. Before ‘homosexuality” they were called
Read moreHomosexuality as a Disease The transition from a religious model to a medical model began in the eighteen century,
Read moreHomosexuality today expressed in a gay and lesbian identity may possibly be viewed as another model of homosexuality. Just as the others are historically and culturally specific so is the modern gay and lesbian
Read moreBoth acts significantly extended the legal controls on male homosexuality. Though formally less severe than capital punishment for sodomy, the new legal situation probably affected a much wider circle of people.
Read moreWE MUST NEVER FORGET We must never forget the gay holocaust. In 1928 there was an estimated 1.2 million “out”
Read moreThe existence of homosexuality in China has been well documented since ancient times. According to one study, homosexuality in China
Read moreClassical Turkish poetry celebrated beautiful boys and bemoaned both their fickleness and their growing up and sprouting facial and body hair.
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