adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
homosexual (= sexually attracted to people of the same sex )
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
activity
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He was dismissed for gross misconduct, which seems to have centred on drug taking and homosexual activities .
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They are certainly not engaging in homosexual activity , but she is definitely at risk if he is a carrier.
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Of these, around 13,900 had been infected through male homosexual activity , 2,000 through drug use and 6,500 through heterosexual activity.
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Persons who have engaged in homosexual activities or have shot street drugs within the last 10 years should never donate blood.
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The second, 1 Cor 6: 9-11, speaks about both the active and the passive participants in homosexual activity .
acts
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The photograph depicted two naked men, engaged in one of the most nauseating of homosexual acts .
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He was gay at a time when homosexual acts were prosecuted in Britain.
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Supported reducing the age of consent for homosexual acts to 16.
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The law says you can marry at 16, but not consent to homosexual acts until you are 21.
behaviour
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With homosexual behaviour , however, the opposite has been true.
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Mrs Whitehouse's position was, then, that homosexual behaviour was abnormal and sinful.
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Member whatever viewpoint he or she put forward, has condoned homosexual behaviour .
conduct
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Unlike its recommendations on homosexual conduct , the section of the report that dealt with prostitution was largely uncontroversial.
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In employing essentially utilitarian criteria, the Wolfenden Committee gave rise to legislation which decriminalised certain forms of homosexual conduct .
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The Committee's recommendations on prostitution were acted upon with far more haste than those concerning homosexual conduct .
desire
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On the Freudian model it is the repression and sublimation of homosexual desire that helps secure identity and social organization.
male
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So to the question, Must liberated homosexual males always produce a culture of promiscuity? the answer appears to be no.
man
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Lambeth Council is trying to encourage more homosexual men and women to adopt children or become foster parents.
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Data on rates of infection among homosexual men is scarce.
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Main outcome measures - Number of cases of rectal gonorrhoea and newly diagnosed infection in homosexual men .
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Design - Case-control study in cohorts of drug misusers and homosexual men .
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Many of these predisposing factors are observed more often among drug users than among homosexual men .
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For instance, a homosexual man recently became infected with a zidovudine-resistant strain of HIV-1, although he had not taken zidovudine himself.
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Prejudices are challenged and myths exposed - for example that only homosexual men and drug users are at risk.
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By 1980, venereal disease was widespread-and four out of every five of the patients were homosexual men .
marriage
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For society, the real choice is between homosexual marriage and homosexual alienation.
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The bill also would bar the federal government from recognizing homosexual marriages .
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Clinton opposes homosexual marriage , according to White House spokesman Mike McCurry.
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All sorts of superficial variations-from homosexual marriage to companionate partnership-may be played on the primal themes of human life.
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Nine states have outlawed homosexual marriages .
relationship
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Simon Hughes continued his dismissal with a swirl of dictionary arguments concerning the unacceptability of homosexual relationships as families.
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In his eyes, a monogamous homosexual relationship was as moral as a monogamous heterosexual relationship.
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In all institutions complex social systems flourished, based on close emotional, homosexual relationships .
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Respondents backed equal rights for gays and lesbians, but they were about evenly split on the morality of homosexual relationships .
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In male prisons, while homosexual relationships exist they are less likely to be tolerated if they involve truly loving feelings.
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Researchers in Britain however, have not, found homosexual relationships to have the same importance as the basis of a subculture.
union
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Should the case of the homosexual union be treated differently?
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But a small, growing school of Catholic intellectuals argue that natural theology actually supports the morality of homosexual unions .
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My analysis of the particular qualities of the institution shows that it may well extend to cover a homosexual union .
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More fundamental, and not to be avoided, is the question of whether homosexual unions should be excluded.
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In its present form it would have no relevance to homosexual unions and little relevance to a union involving a transsexual.
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What, then, of the homosexual union ?
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
closet homosexual/alcoholic etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Greek literature provides evidence for homosexual activity among both males and females.
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Steve was 18 when he told his parents he was homosexual .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Changing social values have increased the numbers of homosexual or unmarried households.
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Minton belonged to the kind of homosexual whose ideal is manly because their temperament is feminine.
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Mr Portillo's decision, which follows his admission last year to homosexual experiences as a young man, surprised Conservative headquarters.
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Nine states have outlawed homosexual marriages.
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Should the case of the homosexual union be treated differently?
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The 6-3 ruling was hailed by gay activists as a landmark in homosexual rights.
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This is true for both heterosexual and homosexual couples.
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What did he mean, the homosexual life?