Homosexuality is the attribute, the character or quality of a being - human or not - which is gay, and broad sense, is defined by physical attraction, emotional, aesthetic and spiritual beings of the same sex.
Homosexuality is a human variant of human sexuality. Zephyr and Jacinto; glass of red paint in Attica Tarquinia, 480 BC In 1870, a text of Westphal entitled "The Sexual Feeling in" set in a psychiatric homosexuality as a sexual deviation, a reversal of the male and female. Since then, the branch of Sexology, the homosexuality was described as one of the emblematic forms of degeneration. At that time there were already laws that forbade the relationship between persons of the same sex. In the twentieth century, this trend has changed and no longer considered homosexuality disease and most countries do not criminalizing relations between persons of the same sex, with some who treat them with complete equality in the relations between people of opposite sex. From the movement of gay liberation and especially after the incident of Stonewall in New York in June 1969, emerged the term gay as a way to delete the content behind the psychiatric word homosexual. Thus, gay is a politicized and less stigmatizing. His name was originally the homosexual gay male liabilities. Today, the term applies to gay and indiscriminately to the man who relates sexually with another man or the woman who relates sexually with another woman. Unlike the sex with animals, where sexual relations are determined primarily by instinct, human sexuality is expressed through cultural patterns historically determined. The human sexuality through history, manifested itself in cultures and periods of sexual openness, interspersed by periods of modesty and sexual deprivation. It is increasingly less common the use of different classifications and specific as to gender originates, anatomical and physiological, as well as to the role, active or passive, or both, even as the frequency, also the option to change or variation. The woman was called active gay dyke (Brazil) by reference to their sexual behavior typically male trait: it is the man for another woman, this, in turn, was classically called a lesbian. This type of speech and denies women lesbians or gay men to their own sexuality from the beginning that is only possible to sex between someone who is the "role" of man and the role of women. In practice most people homosexual does not review this idea of sexual role and prefer to assume that people have sex with the same sex. Although gay is used as common denominator between male and female homosexuals and bisexuals, such use has been sometimes disputed because of the desire for identification of other groups of sexual variation, claiming identity autonomous, independent, own. This is characteristic not only of groups of such interest, but of any other human group. There is a vision that says that the problem was not the term homosexuality, but the word homosexuality. Since the suffix "ism" is used to determine positions on some philosophical or scientific, some say that their use is more appropriate to identify situations of personal choices, lifestyles, and from here, go to the mental disorder or disease. In some lexicons, homosexuality is defined by the practice of homosexual acts, while the term homosexuality is applied to emotional and sexual attraction. Also so many people believe that homosexuality is a term meaning prejorativo, and this has led to the term is used today in more.