heterosexuality

If, as some critics have recently suggested, the transvestism of the Renaissance stage reinforced a cultural subtext of homoeroticism, was that subsumed in the Restoration into a pervasive discourse of heterosexuality? Although Howe does not address this issue directly, her focus is predominately on heterosexual relations both within the plays and between actresses and playwrights.

Sixteen years after the retrospective, I write these sentences in memory of my heterosexuality. There is much to memorialize; it will take a lifetime.

(4,5) In summary, the major findings of the Laumann Report are that homosexuality is not a stable trait and that it tends spontaneously to convert into heterosexuality as an individual gets older; that sexual identity is not fixed at adolescence but continues to change over the course of life and that there is no evidence for homosexuality being innate.

never accepted a gay identity--'Heterosexuality is God's design,' he says--and today he is a leading spokesman for young Christians rejecting homosexuality.

After recriminalizing same-sex relations in 1934, the government prosecuted both workers and intellectuals to enforce compulsory heterosexuality and appropriated medical language to provide scientific justification for the deportation of homosexuals to Siberia.

Relatedly, though less prominently, Goldberg holds that sexual orientation itself, either in concept or in fact, did not exist in the Renaissance ("homo- and heterosexuality ...

He pushes the Church's specific concerns about homosexuality aside by saying it has no more to do with homosexuality than with heterosexuality, because in both cases the priest must reach affective maturity.

How does this affect the institution of marriage or heterosexuality? What insight might this give us about the different social pressures men and women face?

As heterosexuality became more liberated, so a greater toleration of homosexuality developed.

"The result," he continues, "is a brazen propaganda vehicle designed to replace the reservations most Americans still have toward homosexuality with powerful feelings of sympathy, guilt over past 'homophobia'--and ultimately the complete and utter acceptance of homosexuality as equivalent in every way to heterosexuality."