10 Delightful Homo Facts
Ten delightful homosexuality facts is a really interesting and fun read that appeared in the Examiner today, written by the Sexual Health Examiner, Courtney Bee. Here are some fun homosexuality facts to brighten your day and melt your cold little heart:
- When reading horizontally from Shakespeare's original published copy of Hamlet, the furthest left hand side reads 'I am a homosexual' in the last 14 lines of the book. Was this coincidence, or a literary coming out?
- 3,995: Number of gay couples that were married when San Francisco legalized gay marriage (in the several months before the state intervened and voided the marriages). Demographic information showed most of the gay couples were older and better educated than average newlywed couples, with more than 74% over 35 years old and 69 % holding a college degree. I’m not sure if the crazy evangelical guy holding the “God hates queers” sign on my streetcorner holds a college degree, but judging by his misspelling of “queers,” I’m leaning toward no.
- 17 percent: Number of therapists and psychiatrists practicing in Britain that had tried to help their patients reduce "gay or lesbian feelings" through therapy (according to BMC Psychiatry).
- 1999: The year Jerry Falwell accused Teletubby Tinky Winky of being homosexual. He added that “role modelling the gay lifestyle is damaging to the moral lives of children."
- Twink: "an attractive young or young-looking gay male (usually in his late teens or early twenties) with a slender build, a slight muscular physique, and little or no body hair (Wikipedia).” Crap—I think I may have dated a twink.
- The fourth most common sexual fantasy among straight men is sex with another male, especially receiving oral sex from a guy.
- Pedophilia and homosexuality are unrelated. Pedophiles generally have no sexual attraction to other adults, and have no particular preference to boys or girls. There is an assumption in some of these studies that male-male child molestation is committed by a homosexual male, but this belief is unsupported by research. In one study, (Dr. Carole Jenny, Denver, July 1, 1991 - June 30, 1992), research found only 2 cases of 269 (less than 1%) in which the child molester was known to be homosexual. Eat it, accusatory religious pamphlets.
- 1992: The year The World Health Organization removed homosexuality from its official list of mental illnesses.
- Roy and Silo: The homosexual penguin couple at New York City Central Park Zoo that successfully hatched an egg given by zookeepers and raised a healthy young chick, a female the keepers named Tango. Their story is the basis for the children's book And Tango Makes Three.
- Although Hitler did condemn homosexual acts, he only condemned them between men. But lesbians were rarely (if at all) sent to concentration camps, because it was not in the laws written by Hitler to denounce women loving other women. See? Even psychotic dictators love girl-on-girl action.
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Matthew Conaster
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I like the list you compiled. The fact about Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet, reminded me of my degree work in English. Dr. Louise Turner Forrest, a professor, was one of the women allowed into Harvard when it first began admitting women to undergraduate and graduate studies. She studied English Renaissance Literature with Professor Byron Chancey Tinker who had committed whole passages of Shakespeare’s plays and some major critical essays to memory (rough time period was the late 1920′s and early 1930′s). Dr. Tinker regaled the seminar class Dr. Forrest was taking with this story. I remember her telling us that she, the other woman student, and the six men in the class were somewhat surprised. Dr. Forrest came from a small hamlet in Tennessee and a very conservative family. She asked Tinker what a homosexual was, and Dr. Tinker answered frankly. Everyone turned bright red, with the men noticably fidgeting in their chairs.
Thank goodness times have changed.
“When reading horizontally from Shakespeare’s original published copy of Hamlet, the furthest left hand side reads ‘I am a homosexual’” IMPOSSIBLE! the word wasn’t even coined until the late 1800′s.
Depok, Nice try. You’d have to explain “buggery,” “fag/faggot,” and other terms of the times from the Dark Ages through the Reformation. James I/VI, Elizabeth’s heir was a well known homosexual by his own admission from the time he was 16 through his life. True, he did his royal duty by his wife and produced an heir (Charles I) and a spare. The best example that blows a hole in your premise is the story of Edward III, a homosexual. His father went so far as to have his male lover killed when Edward was but the Prince of Wales.