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Definition of homosexual in English: homosexualadjective ˌhɒmə(ʊ)ˈsɛkʃʊəlˌhəʊmə(ʊ)ˈsɛkʃʊəlˌhoʊməˈsɛkʃ(u)əl 1Sexually attracted to people of one's own sex. （人）同性恋的 Example sentencesExamples - Mrs Foreman said her group was not against homosexual people and respected their choice of sexuality.
- More than half of these were for homosexual men.
- She said that she's been in that situation before both with homosexual men and lesbian women.
- The attempt is to compare being homosexual to being black.
- Kinsey claimed that 13 percent of men and 7 percent of women are exclusively homosexual.
- After the Righter trial, the way was open for bishops to ordain sexually active homosexual persons if they so chose.
- Even before she recognised that she was happy in a lesbian relationship she had homosexual friends.
- Lots of emphasis is likely to be placed on the effect that the Government's proposals for a civil partnerships register is going to have on homosexual couples.
- The first was a high profile case in Glasgow in which a lesbian couple tried to deny parental rights to the homosexual father who donated sperm for their baby.
- The Presbyterian Church has effectively become the first New Zealand denomination to allow homosexual ministers.
- The women claimed the ruling threatened unmarried heterosexual couples as well as homosexual and lesbian ones.
- First of all, I don't ask people if they're homosexual, lesbian or heterosexual.
- A gay university chaplain is calling for more tolerance as a dispute over homosexual priests threatens to split the Anglican church.
- According to the police, he posted the photos in an effort to attract homosexual admirers.
- Baker became the first jazz musician to attract a strong homosexual following.
- One of the most common misconceptions about homosexual people is how our sexuality is determined.
- The idea that homosexual men and lesbians form a ‘community’ is also a part of politically correct fantasy.
- Before the lifting of the ban, some gay and lesbian soldiers already were known by their peers to be homosexual.
- Every witness they have talked to is homosexual or lesbian and they believe that everybody who saw this miracle is either gay or lesbian.
- I have got both heterosexual and homosexual friends.
Synonyms gay, lesbian, sapphic, lesbigay - 1.1 Involving or characterized by sexual attraction between people of the same sex.
同性性吸引的 同性性欲。 Example sentencesExamples - A third of the men still occasionally felt strong homosexual desire and even daydreamed about having gay sex.
- Perhaps the biggest bane for homosexuals in Singapore is a law that still criminalizes consensual homosexual acts.
- What he said was that he was fine with the notion of people being homosexuals as long as they didn't commit homosexual acts.
- Sexual temptation, including homosexual temptation, is not sinful.
- By contrast, consenting homosexual acts involving adults are essentially victimless and harmless.
- Throughout his life, homosexual acts were illegal in Britain.
- Unwanted sexual experiences are common in both heterosexual and homosexual relationships.
- Do they find themselves having to refrain from acting upon homosexual urges because their chosen lifestyle is heterosexual?
- But I think at that time he was living a very flamboyant homosexual lifestyle.
- I've spoken with other Catholics with homosexual desires who would never speak about it publicly.
- As somebody who's not felt homosexual temptation, I don't go around handing out free advice to those who do.
- I was under the impression that homosexual acts were common across many species of animal.
- As the most honest revisionists admit, the Bible has nothing good to say about homosexual sexual acts.
- Britain had decriminalized homosexual acts in private between consenting adults in the Sexual Offenses Act 1967.
- The two, who play at hating each other in school, share a deep bond that contains a heavy strain of homosexual attraction.
- His predilection for favourites, whether or not based on homosexual attraction, was politically disastrous.
- While this ruling complicates things a little bit, that law doesn't change what the church thinks about homosexual marriage.
- For example, unlike in many countries, homosexual acts between consenting adults are not considered an offence.
- This does not exclude the existence of pockets of the urban population with unrealized homosexual desires.
- Most such clients are deeply ambivalent about their homosexual attractions.
noun ˌhɒmə(ʊ)ˈsɛkʃʊəlˌhəʊmə(ʊ)ˈsɛkʃʊəlˌhoʊməˈsɛkʃ(u)əl A person who is sexually attracted to people of their own sex. （人）同性恋的 Example sentencesExamples - Some say that acceptance is the key to solving the problems of homosexuals.
- Well, this might be true to some extent, but homosexuals aren't exactly a tiny minority.
- Ministers have decided to give homosexuals the same protection as that enjoyed by ethnic minorities and the disabled.
- Gay rights advocates celebrated it as an important step forward in the struggle for legal equality for homosexuals.
- The lines quoted above were used to justify the stoning of homosexuals and the mistreatment of women.
- As in other parts of the world, this issue also concerns homosexuals and lesbians.
- Other homosexuals see same sex marriage as a tool to radically change society.
- Seems like many guys in the world are homophobic, despite the rise in awareness about homosexuals.
- The Internet has done a lot to increase the self-esteem of young, confused homosexuals.
- In other words, bisexuals face discrimination only because they sometimes behave like homosexuals.
- No longer can homosexuals or lesbians be stigmatized as sexual deviants by the law.
- He did not understand or approve of homosexuals, but his oldest and most cherished friend from childhood was gay.
- A survey into crime against homosexuals is helping open the door on the gay scene in Newry and Mourne.
- Many landmark cases saw homosexuals gaining more rights under Canadian and American laws.
- So while it is true to say the Church is anti-gay, it is bigoted to say that Catholics hate homosexuals.
- This is what makes the situation of Cuban homosexuals a key test of the nature of democratic rights in Cuba.
- There has been an increase in attacks on homosexuals and gay switchboards are finding that suicide threats have doubled.
- The reader notes that, as usual, the number of homosexuals taking part was vastly exaggerated.
- Every once in a while, the straight Australian male must come face to face with real life homosexuals.
- He shocked the nation by telling the Senate that homosexuals were mentally ill.
Synonyms gay, lesbian, gay person, lesbigay rare invert, homophile, Uranian informal queen, friend of Dorothy, dyke, les, lesbo, lezzie, butch, femme informal, derogatory queer, homo, pansy, nancy, bumboy, nelly British informal, derogatory poof, poofter, ponce, jessie, woofter, shirtlifter, bender North American informal, derogatory cupcake, swish, twinkie Australian informal wonk South African informal, derogatory moffie West Indian informal, derogatory batty boy, batty man
Derivativesadverb In the present study, we interviewed homosexually active men about their sexuality. Example sentencesExamples - In a sample of 930 homosexually active men, Hickson et al. reported that 27.6% had been subjected to unwanted sexual contact at some point in their lives.
- As I may be heterosexually hard-wired, you may be hard-wired homosexually.
- It is known from historical sources that Leonardo was homosexually inclined.
- Of these, only 5% reported being homosexually active in the past year.
OriginLate 19th century: from homo- 'same' + sexual. Rhymesasexual, bisexual, heterosexual, psychosexual, sexual, transsexual, unisexual Definition of homosexual in US English: homosexualadjectiveˌhoʊməˈsɛkʃ(u)əlˌhōməˈsekSH(o͞o)əl 1(of a person) sexually attracted to people of one's own sex. （人）同性恋的 Example sentencesExamples - After the Righter trial, the way was open for bishops to ordain sexually active homosexual persons if they so chose.
- The women claimed the ruling threatened unmarried heterosexual couples as well as homosexual and lesbian ones.
- The idea that homosexual men and lesbians form a ‘community’ is also a part of politically correct fantasy.
- More than half of these were for homosexual men.
- The attempt is to compare being homosexual to being black.
- Mrs Foreman said her group was not against homosexual people and respected their choice of sexuality.
- She said that she's been in that situation before both with homosexual men and lesbian women.
- Baker became the first jazz musician to attract a strong homosexual following.
- Every witness they have talked to is homosexual or lesbian and they believe that everybody who saw this miracle is either gay or lesbian.
- Lots of emphasis is likely to be placed on the effect that the Government's proposals for a civil partnerships register is going to have on homosexual couples.
- The first was a high profile case in Glasgow in which a lesbian couple tried to deny parental rights to the homosexual father who donated sperm for their baby.
- Even before she recognised that she was happy in a lesbian relationship she had homosexual friends.
- One of the most common misconceptions about homosexual people is how our sexuality is determined.
- I have got both heterosexual and homosexual friends.
- First of all, I don't ask people if they're homosexual, lesbian or heterosexual.
- The Presbyterian Church has effectively become the first New Zealand denomination to allow homosexual ministers.
- According to the police, he posted the photos in an effort to attract homosexual admirers.
- Kinsey claimed that 13 percent of men and 7 percent of women are exclusively homosexual.
- A gay university chaplain is calling for more tolerance as a dispute over homosexual priests threatens to split the Anglican church.
- Before the lifting of the ban, some gay and lesbian soldiers already were known by their peers to be homosexual.
Synonyms gay, lesbian, sapphic, lesbigay - 1.1 Involving or characterized by sexual attraction between people of the same sex.
同性性吸引的 同性性欲。 Example sentencesExamples - As the most honest revisionists admit, the Bible has nothing good to say about homosexual sexual acts.
- Britain had decriminalized homosexual acts in private between consenting adults in the Sexual Offenses Act 1967.
- Unwanted sexual experiences are common in both heterosexual and homosexual relationships.
- Sexual temptation, including homosexual temptation, is not sinful.
- Most such clients are deeply ambivalent about their homosexual attractions.
- This does not exclude the existence of pockets of the urban population with unrealized homosexual desires.
- A third of the men still occasionally felt strong homosexual desire and even daydreamed about having gay sex.
- What he said was that he was fine with the notion of people being homosexuals as long as they didn't commit homosexual acts.
- But I think at that time he was living a very flamboyant homosexual lifestyle.
- I was under the impression that homosexual acts were common across many species of animal.
- For example, unlike in many countries, homosexual acts between consenting adults are not considered an offence.
- I've spoken with other Catholics with homosexual desires who would never speak about it publicly.
- His predilection for favourites, whether or not based on homosexual attraction, was politically disastrous.
- By contrast, consenting homosexual acts involving adults are essentially victimless and harmless.
- Throughout his life, homosexual acts were illegal in Britain.
- While this ruling complicates things a little bit, that law doesn't change what the church thinks about homosexual marriage.
- Do they find themselves having to refrain from acting upon homosexual urges because their chosen lifestyle is heterosexual?
- The two, who play at hating each other in school, share a deep bond that contains a heavy strain of homosexual attraction.
- As somebody who's not felt homosexual temptation, I don't go around handing out free advice to those who do.
- Perhaps the biggest bane for homosexuals in Singapore is a law that still criminalizes consensual homosexual acts.
nounˌhoʊməˈsɛkʃ(u)əlˌhōməˈsekSH(o͞o)əl A person who is sexually attracted to people of their own sex. （人）同性恋的 Example sentencesExamples - Seems like many guys in the world are homophobic, despite the rise in awareness about homosexuals.
- Gay rights advocates celebrated it as an important step forward in the struggle for legal equality for homosexuals.
- Other homosexuals see same sex marriage as a tool to radically change society.
- He did not understand or approve of homosexuals, but his oldest and most cherished friend from childhood was gay.
- This is what makes the situation of Cuban homosexuals a key test of the nature of democratic rights in Cuba.
- The lines quoted above were used to justify the stoning of homosexuals and the mistreatment of women.
- No longer can homosexuals or lesbians be stigmatized as sexual deviants by the law.
- So while it is true to say the Church is anti-gay, it is bigoted to say that Catholics hate homosexuals.
- There has been an increase in attacks on homosexuals and gay switchboards are finding that suicide threats have doubled.
- Many landmark cases saw homosexuals gaining more rights under Canadian and American laws.
- He shocked the nation by telling the Senate that homosexuals were mentally ill.
- Ministers have decided to give homosexuals the same protection as that enjoyed by ethnic minorities and the disabled.
- The Internet has done a lot to increase the self-esteem of young, confused homosexuals.
- As in other parts of the world, this issue also concerns homosexuals and lesbians.
- Some say that acceptance is the key to solving the problems of homosexuals.
- Well, this might be true to some extent, but homosexuals aren't exactly a tiny minority.
- A survey into crime against homosexuals is helping open the door on the gay scene in Newry and Mourne.
- Every once in a while, the straight Australian male must come face to face with real life homosexuals.
- The reader notes that, as usual, the number of homosexuals taking part was vastly exaggerated.
- In other words, bisexuals face discrimination only because they sometimes behave like homosexuals.
Synonyms gay, lesbian, gay person, lesbigay
OriginLate 19th century: from homo- ‘same’ + sexual. |