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Same-sex sexual activity has been legal nationwide since 1890. [1] The age of consent is 14 years old, regardless of gender and sexual orientation.. Italy is among the few European nations to have had an equal age of consent for homosexual and heterosexual acts ever since before the 20th century.
1140 – The Italian Monk Gratian compiles his work Decretum Gratiani, in which he argues that male homosexual acts are the worst of all the sexual sins because they involve using the male member in an unnatural way. [6] 1179 – The Third Lateran Council of Rome issues a decree for the excommunication of male homosexuals.
In almost all languages where the words homophile and homosexual were both in use (i.e., their cognate equivalents: German Homophil and Homosexuell, Italian omofilo and omosessuale, etc.), homosexual won out as the modern conventional neutral term. However, in Norway, the Netherlands and the Flemish/Dutch part of Belgium, the term is still ...
The pope’s statements and actions, she said, have gone a long way toward healing the wounds of 1986, when the Vatican document “On the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons” called “the ...
Nevertheless, he delivered a similar message on gay seminarians - minus the reported swear word - when he met Italian bishops in 2018, telling them to carefully vet priesthood applicants and ...
The Vatican ban was articulated in a 2005 document from the Congregation for Catholic Education, and later repeated in a subsequent document in 2016, which said the church cannot admit to seminaries or ordain men who “practice homosexuality, present deep-seated homosexual tendencies or support the so-called gay culture.”
Such relationships sometimes formed between government slaves or members of the emperor's harem. For example, under Emperor Cheng's rule (33–7 BC) the slave Dào Fáng (Chinese: 道房) had a homosexual relationship with Cáo Gōng (traditional Chinese: 曹宮; simplified Chinese: 曹宫), the daughter of a slave. [20]
Polari, a jargon that began in European ports and evolved into a shorthand used in gay subcultures, influences much of today's slang in words like "zhuzh," "drag," "camp" and "femme."