Gay and lesbian are the most common alternatives. The legal and social status of people who perform homosexual acts or identify as gay or lesbian varies enormously across the world and in places remains hotly contested in political and religious debate. Once viewed by authorities as a pathology or mental illness to be cured, homosexuality is now more often investigated as part of a larger impetus to understand the biology, psychology, politics, genetics, history and cultural variations of sexual practice and identity. The prevalence of the concept owes much to the work of the German psychiatrist Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing and his 1886 work Psychopathia Sexualis. Etymologically, the word homosexual is a Greek and Latin hybrid with homo (often confused with the later Latin meaning of "man", as in homo sapiens) deriving from the Greek word for same, thus connoting.

Debates Against Gay Rights

Championing mainstream political thought while pretending to oppose it

Salon - As Klein himself concedes, undermining his whole rant against what I wrote: As it ... If people who support a candidate with the wrong position on abortion (or gay rights ... Pro-choice individuals who welcome to our political debates those contributions ... Read more...

Candidates beware -- I'm on the beat

Salon - ... Republicans. (But I'll be carefully cross-referencing my travel schedule against ... death will probably do little to inspire the serious foreign-policy debates that ... Here's what he had to say then about the subjects of gay rights and the AIDS epidemicRead more...

Debates Against Gay Rights

New push for gay rights debate - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM
gay-rights movement J-FLAG (Jamaica Forum for Lesbians and Gays), which, that official policy discriminated against gays, causing them to go underground,

U.S. Immigration Law Inhumane to Same-Sex Couples (Human Rights Watch, 2-5-2006)
New Immigration Reforms Must End Discrimination against Lesbians, Gays debates immigration reforms, it should end discrimination against lesbian

Yankton Press & Dakotan: Story
By: BY RANDY DOCKENDORF.USD Forum Debates Gay Rights.randy.dockendorf overflow crowd heard the debate over gay rights during Thursday's forum at the

American Civil Liberties Union : Striking Down Texas Law Against Same-Sex ""Sodomy,"" Supreme Court Rights Egregious...
.Home : Lesbian & Gay Rights : Criminal Justice in legislative debates as a reason not to protect gay people from discrimination

afrol News: Egyptian gay persecution provokes debates
14.08.2001 - Worldwide protests against trial against Egyptian gays " international outcry against the persecution, Egyptian human rights groups have

Gay Rights-Editorial-Opinion-The Times of India
21 Jul 2006, 0000 hrs IST,TNN.Save.Write to Editor court against Section 377 on the ground that it violated .Print.Gay Rights.Debates.EMail

BBC NEWS | Politics | Gay rights laws challenge fails
rules outlawing businesses from discriminating against homosexuals have been upheld in Gays? Not in my guest house.Gay .14 Dec 06 | Northern Ireland

Gay Adoption Debate and Poll
.Gay Adoption Debate and Poll.Should Gays and Lesbians be Our Children" campaign against gay rights -- bans any gay man or lesbian from adopting

Do The Gay Debates Matter? / Queerty
. Rights Campaign's Joe Solmonese, who will also be acting as one of the debate's wedge politics that pit neighbor against neighbor will not be tolerated

CPD: 2004 Debate Transcript
Presidential Debates: September 30, 2004 debate transcript voted against Desert the very ones he's criticizing John Kerry for voting against.