~ HOMO~          prefix  denotes SAME  SAMENESS    see> HOMEO
                 gr HOMAS = EQUAL
~ HOMOLOGY       HOMOGENEOUS
~ HOMOSEXUAL     QUEER  GAY  LESBIAN  CATAMITE     sug>   GANYMEDE
                 med> SEXUAL PREFERENCE FOR PEOPLE OF THE SAME SEX
~ HOMOSEXUALITY  from HOMO and SEXUAL = SAME SEX vs HETEROSEXUAL
                 ply> | A DIFFERENT VERSION FROM BISEXUAL MAY BE
  PERVERSION  INVERSION  or REVERSION  TOWARD HOMO or OMNI SEXUAL
  note A STRONG DICHOTOMY EXISTS BETWEEN THOSE WHO SEE THE
       ISSUE AS "PREFERENCE" implying A VARIATION OF NORMALITY
  and those who consider the issue to be A DISEASE or DEGENERATION
  lit+ " THE SEXUAL REVOLUTION HAS BEGUN
         TO DEVOUR ITS CHILDREN ... THE POOR HOMOSEXUALS
         THEY HAVE DECLARED WAR ON NATURE AND NOW
         NATURE IS EXACTING AN AWFUL RETRIBUTION " from
  1983 syndicated paper column apropos AIDS AS THE DEVASTATING
  PLAGUE OF OUR TIME by Patrick BUCHANAN [#]
  hx> IN 1826 Pope LEO XII [#] CONDEMNED THE USE OF CONDOMS AND
      CALLED SYPHILIS A FORM OF RIGHTEOUS JUSTICE
  " ... A WAY TO "PUNISH SINNERS BY STRIKING THEM IN THE
        " MEMBER "                       sug> PENIS
    WITH WHICH THEY HAD SINNED "         sug> COMMEMORATE
  in 1497 THE COUNCIL OF ABERDEEN DECREED THAT TO PREVENT
  THE SPREAD OF SYPHILIS PROSTITUTES THAT WOULD NOT DESIST
  FROM THEIR VICE or " SIN OF VENERY " ... WOULD BE
  "BRANDED WITH A HOT IRON ON THEIR CHEEK ... "
  note William F BUCKLEY Jr [#] PROPOSED THAT THOSE
  TESTED POSITIVE FOR " HIV " or AIDS SHOULD BE
  TATTOOED   <sug>   BLAME BLEMISH  published in MARCH 1986
  New York Times and later in The National Review
  note TATTOING OF ITS SOLDIERS AND ITS PRISONERS
       WAS PRACTICED BY THE NAZI GERMAN GOVERNMENT
  hx> MANY ARTISTS HAVE SHOWN CONTEMPT TOWARD THE
      "AVERAGE" VALUES OF THE SOCIETIES SUPPORTING THEIR ART
  SUCH CONTEMPT EXTENDS TOWARD GENERAL SEXUAL MORES
  SOME ARTISTS THRIVED ON OFFERING A REGULAR DIET OF
  PROVOCATIONS OR SCANDAL AS DID       sug> PROVOKE ACTIVATE
  George SAND [#]  Isidora DUNCAN [#] etc
  UNUSUAL SEXUAL BEHAVIOR IS ONE FREQUENT ELEMENT as per
  Madame STAEL [#] WHO WAS CALLED  "A SEXUAL PREDATOR"
  HOWEVER WHAT IS SEEN AS AN ENTERTAINING PROVOCATION AND
  WHAT BECOMES A THREAT TO THE SOCIAL ORDER OFTEN ENGENDER
  DIFFERENTLY REACTIONS as in
  Oscar WILDE [#] WHO WAS DESTROYED BY CHALLENGING
  VICTORIAN ENGLISH MORES WHEN IT BECAME PUBLIC AND VENTED
  IN COURT HIS GRIEVANCE AGAINST THE POLITICALLY CONNECTED
  MARQUIS QUEENSBERRY WHOSE SON LORD ALFRED DOUGLAS WAS A LOVER
  OF WILDE AND COMMITTED SUICIDE
  WILDE HAD A TRUST IN HIS ORATORY AND TALENT BUT LOST IN COURT
  HE WAS SENTENCED IN 1895 TO TWO YEARS OF HARD LABOR AND
  DEPRIVATION FROM READING AND WRITING
  WILDE HAD A WIFE AND CHILDREN WHO RENOUNCED HIM
  A FEW YEARS AFTER LEAVING JAIL WILDE DIED A BROKEN MAN
  DESPITE HIS GREAT LITERARY SUCCESS
  note AT THE TIME THERE WERE PROMINENT HOMOSEXUALS WHO
       WERE THRIVING POLITICAL ENGLISH LEADERS
  note perhaps another example may be found in
  THE EXILE OF VIRGIL ORDERED BY AUGUSTUS and later
  UPHELD BY HADRIAN