Explore: Homosexuals In Literature

male homosexual behavior. Because the social acceptance of homosexuality has varied in many world cultures throughout history, LGBT literature has covered

examples of homosexual love in ancient literature, such as Achilles and Patroclus in the Iliad. Little is known of female homosexuality in antiquity. Sappho

this, including one in 1951 that asserted that homosexuals are actually heterosexuals that play both gender roles, and homosexuals are attempting to perpetuate

Roman literature that can be read today, those of Plautus are the earliest to survive in full to modernity, and also the first to mention homosexuality. Their

men" (NIV) or "practicing homosexuals" (NET). Malakia (μαλακία, "softness", "weakliness") is an ancient Greek word that, in relation to men, has sometimes

Islamic Homosexualities: Culture, History, and Literature is a collection of essays edited by Stephen O. Murray and Will Roscoe and published in 1997 by

(1980) speculated that the text does not condemn "homosexual acts by homosexuals", but rather "homosexual acts committed by heterosexual persons".[page needed]

University professor. There is no place for homosexuality in Mormon marriages, and no place for noncelibate homosexuals in the top level of Mormon heaven, unless

female homosexuals, and gay men to male homosexuals. Some scholars argue that the terms "homosexual" and "gay" are problematic when applied to men in ancient

calculations in her 1977 book Figuring: The Joy of Numbers. In 1977, she wrote The World of Homosexuals, the first published academic study of homosexuality in India