How to Use homosexuality in a Sentence

homosexuality

noun
  • Some people will talk about the theme of homosexuality and how the church views that.
    Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR, 1 Sep. 2022
  • Nagy, who is gay, was taught from a young age that homosexuality was a sin.
    WIRED, 23 Sep. 2022
  • The movie doesn’t even try to push the idea that a 50-year-old Okie would be unable to handle his daughter’s homosexuality.
    Kyle Smith, National Review, 29 July 2021
  • Styles plays just that as young Tom — a policeman in 1950s England, when homosexuality was still a crime, to boot.
    Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2022
  • The practice is based on the belief that homosexuality is caused by nurture, not nature, and so it can be reversed.
    Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 9 Dec. 2021
  • Under that law, the Army Act, homosexuality is still punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
    NBC News, 3 Mar. 2022
  • If your values are that homosexuality is wrong, the books will contradict that.
    New York Times, 28 June 2022
  • The novel, first published in 1969, is long credited as one of the first mainstream YA novels to center on homosexuality.
    USA Today, 20 June 2021
  • The match is between Germany and Hungary, which has just passed a Russia-style law banning the portrayal of homosexuality to minors.
    David Meyer, Fortune, 23 June 2021
  • His father, then a bishop in a Latter-day Saint ward in Erda, sent him a barrage of letters, urging him to renounce his homosexuality.
    Sean P. Means, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Sep. 2021
  • Two of the band's songs are about homosexuality and anti-gay prejudice.
    The New York Times, Arkansas Online, 3 Aug. 2021
  • Another example Mackey shared is if a child wants to discuss a sermon the child heard where the preacher spoke against homosexuality.
    J.d. Crowe | Jdcrowe@al.com, al, 13 Apr. 2022
  • The film, directed by Michael Grandage, stars Harry Styles as a gay policeman in the 1950s, when homosexuality was still a criminal offence.
    K.j. Yossman, Variety, 11 Sep. 2022
  • Kirk was huge for Disney, as big or bigger than Kirk Douglas, until a 1964 drug arrest and rumors of his homosexuality changed his image.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2021
  • But even though Francis has at times signaled a more welcoming church stance on homosexuality, the church has not shifted its official teachings and laws.
    Washington Post, 22 June 2021
  • Orban cast the moves as an attempt by the EU to force Hungary to amend its controversial law on the depiction of homosexuality, though the rule of law report made no mention of that legislation.
    Justin Spike, Star Tribune, 21 July 2021
  • The composer will finally accept their union to put an end to rumors of his homosexuality.
    Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 1 Feb. 2022
  • But with the Taliban’s takeover, it is now expected that Sharia law will be implemented and homosexuality will be punishable by death.
    Fox News, 21 Aug. 2021
  • But that attention kind of obscured the hyper-specificity of the story: A poor Black boy who grows up feeling unsafe to explore or embrace his homosexuality.
    Katherine J Igoe, Marie Claire, 1 Oct. 2021
  • But the events also amount to an open rebellion — and a test for a pontiff whose tenure has been marked by divisions over hot-button issues, especially the church’s stance on homosexuality.
    BostonGlobe.com, 10 May 2021
  • Look at countless famous people around whom homosexuality rumors swirl, people who simply have a very, very, very best-best friend (or, in fact, are actually gay which is just fab and is none of our business).
    Tom Rasmussen, Vogue, 8 Dec. 2021
  • Whereas 94% of those surveyed in Sweden say homosexuality should be accepted, only 7% of people in Nigeria say the same.
    Jon Younger, Forbes, 12 June 2021
  • The ad has been produced to mark 50 years since the decriminalization of homosexuality in Norway.
    NBC News, 25 Nov. 2021
  • The Russian law effectively forbids any depiction of or reference to homosexuality at all in the country and it has been used to imprison activists.
    Degen Pener, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Mar. 2022
  • With full knowledge of his homosexuality, the streets nonetheless feared and respected him.
    Peniel E. Joseph, CNN, 8 Sep. 2021
  • In the spring of this year, English player Jake Daniels became the first active professional soccer player to make his homosexuality public.
    Katharina Fuchs, Vogue, 17 Nov. 2022
  • From then on, the green carnation became a subtle signal of male homosexuality.
    Ellie Rudy, NBC News, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Eight decades later, his case offers a stark example of how the politics of homosexuality differed in an earlier era.
    James Kirchick, Washington Post, 15 June 2022
  • The group helped a young woman sue textbook publishers for writing that homosexuality was a disorder.
    NBC News, 5 Nov. 2021
  • The soccer scandal came just over a week after Hungary's parliament passed the bill to ban the sharing of material in schools deemed to promote homosexuality or gender transition.
    NBC News, 16 June 2021

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