Sublime

Throughout Christian history, male homosexuality has been considered a heinous sin. This is in stark contrast to ancient Greek culture, where it was acceptable for men to have sex with adolescent boys until they were ready to marry—at which point it was expected that they would switch to having sex with women. In both cases, however, homosexuality

Transgender people pose no threat to us, and the vast majority of gay men and lesbians wholeheartedly support protections for transgender people. But transgenderist ideology—including postmodern conceptions of sex and gender—is indeed a threat to homosexuality, because it is a threat to biological sex as a concept.

shibboleths

Dr. Schneidman scrutinized the Make-a-Picture-Story Tests and told Hooker, “If you showed me the protocol for thirty schizophrenics, I’d be surprised if I didn’t get twenty-eight. But to identify the homosexuals . . .” He was convinced: “Homosexuality is not a diagnostic category.”

In the decades before the Second World War, many creative women who loved women fled the repressions and expectations of their home towns, such as Washington and London, and formed a like-minded community in Paris.

Still reeling from the impact of the 1948 and 1953 Kinsey reports, which shattered reigning cultural myths by exposing the vast discrepancy between normative standards of sexuality and the actual lived behavior of Americans, the nation overwhelmingly preferred myths of idyllic childhood innocence to the verities of empirical data. The mass media

No one before Harry Hay had articulated those words—that homosexuals were “an oppressed cultural minority.”

Spyer, still a handsome woman, sitting tall in her wheelchair; and Windsor perched on the arm of the chair, decked out in pearls, her beautifully coifed hair still platinum blonde (thanks to Clairol now), were married by Canada’s first openly gay judge, Harvey Brownstone.