homosexual
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The contours of Pride appear in my mind whenever I’m watching a movie that I feel speaks to my own uniquely homosexual sensibilities, which frequently change.
From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2026
A not-so-closeted homosexual, he also waxes lyrical about his infatuation with a young Yale student, played by a bottle-blonde Margaret Qualley, and shares drinks with "Charlotte's Web" author E.B.
From Barron's ● Feb. 27, 2026
In 2020, Pope Francis said "homosexual people have a right to be in a family".
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2025
Strict gender separation common to early 19th century social structures underwent unexpected transformation after the binaries of heterosexual and homosexual were invented in 1869.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2025
In one society, homosexual relationships might have been accepted, while in the other they were taboo.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
The high court voted 8-3 to extend the protections of an existing law prohibiting racial discrimination in hiring, housing and public access to homosexuals and transgender people.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 8, 2026
The vast majority were Jews, with Soviet prisoners of war, Sinti and homosexuals among other groups to be engulfed by the horrors of the camp.
From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2025
They were homosexuals and they wanted equal rights.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2024
“It was as sincere a marriage as you’re going to get between a male homosexual and a woman at a time when a lot of male homosexuals married women.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2023
He explains that while we might know that Jews were forced to wear yellow stars, we may not know that homosexuals were forced to wear triangles.
From "Ask the Passengers" by A.S. King
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