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2.2.1 The history of homosexuality
In a brief definition, homosexuality is a sexual desire that is directed toward members of one’s own sex. The term homosexual was first used by a Karl M. Kertbeny in
private correspondence in 1868 and it first appeared publicly in two anonymous German pamphlets published in 1869 which exposed to extend a Prussian anti–
sodomy law throughout all of the German confederations www.religioustolerans. orghom_term.html.
At the first time homosexuals were considered to be spiritually gifted. This special gift comes from god for the tribe in Native Americans or men with a
particular insight into spiritual matters. This man usually called as “berdache” which means male prostitute. Later on the term “berdache” is changed into “two-spirit”
which means a middle of a continuum of genders, not an aberration between two opposite genders www.bidstrup.com. Under the government of the United States,
Two-spirit tradition was actively persecuted and suppressed as being deviant and such activities were profoundly and ruthlessly punished. The result is many homosexuals
in America are afraid to speak up their identity to the public. Nowadays, homosexuality has become a subject of intense scientific curiosity.
This is proved that nearly 1300 scientific articles and books on the subject were published in English between the year 1940 and 1968 Weinberg and Bell, in Evans
and Mc Candless, 1978. In a current research Kinsey www.en.wikipedia.orgwiki homosexuality reported 37 of males in America had some sexual experience with
other men and 4 had always been exclusively homosexual. Kinsey also found
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between 2 and 6 of them had “more or less exclusively” homosexual experience. This research shows us that approximately 4 of adult Americans were exclusively
homosexual for their entire lives. The incident rates of homosexuality have created a fact that they began to open themself in public. Many organizations have also
appeared in order to support them. One of the organizations is Tour d’horizon, the current place of the homosexual movement in the America www.scotlandonsunday.
scotman.com.
2.2.2 The Definition of Homosexuality
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