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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 ...
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 ...
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.
The pope drew headlines last year when he was reported to have used a derogatory Italian term for gays in a closed-door meeting with Italian bishops while talking about the country’s seminaries ...
Francis' comments were widely reported in the popular press, becoming one of his most famous statements on LGBTQ people. [2] [3] [4] Welcoming the comments, LGBTQ group Gay Catholic Voice Ireland said "that this is the first time a pope has used the word 'gay', a word originating from within the LGBTQ community, rather than 'homosexual', a word originating from the medical profession". [30]
1672 – The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Wälättä P̣eṭros (1672) is the first reference of homosexuality between nuns in Ethiopian literature. [115] [116] 1683 – The Kingdom of Denmark criminalizes "relations against nature", making it punishable by death. [117] 1688 – 1704 – Kagemachaya, a Japanese gay bar, first opens in Japan.
Nonetheless, those who displayed their homosexuality in public were targeted by the fascist police, and subject to extrajudicial punishments such as public admonition and exile; gay people were persecuted in the later years of the regime of Benito Mussolini, [18] and under the Italian Social Republic of 1943–45.
Latin had such a wealth of words for men outside the masculine norm that some scholars [149] argue for the existence of a homosexual subculture at Rome; that is, although the noun "homosexual" has no straightforward equivalent in Latin, literary sources reveal a pattern of behaviors among a minority of free men that indicate same-sex preference ...