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n. - An attraction to (or relations with) persons of the same gender.

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  • First of all I replace homophobia with the term homosexualism so that we are dealing with more similar things. then I would identify xenophobia as one of the root causes...
  • But homosexualism which is practised by habbit by nearly 60% of population if cought is punished by death.
  • And his few references to the subject in his non-fictional life — he called it "homosexualism" — are generally mildly disobliging.
  • Those who agreed that "homosexualism" was a "crime against childhood" outnumbered those who disagreed by an overwhelming margin -
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