Chapter Ten Homosexual Identity Formation
The past 25 years we have seen an increasing number of studies concerning homosexuality. These studies have dealt with both the positive and negative effects of homosexuality. There has been a focused attempt to validate homosexuality as an “alternate lifestyle.” This research is both good and bad, in that what is being studied itself is a new concept; a “gay identity.” More importantly this research is questionable (...)

Before Homosexuality: Sodomy
Same-sex sexual acts have a history; today they are called “homosexuality”. Before ‘homosexuality” they were called “sodomy”. In England during the reign of King Henry VIII “sodomy” became a civil offense with the passage of the buggery Act of 1533. In Germany in the late 1860s the transition from a religious model to a medical model for same-sex sexual acts begin. It was at this time the term (...)