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History of human sexuality
History of human sexuality covers the field tracing sexual norms, identities, and regulation from antiquity to today, shaped by Foucault's 1976 History of Sexuality, the 1970s feminist and gay liberation movements, and debates over essentialism versus social constructionism.
History of lesbianism
The history of lesbianism, or lesbian history, covers erotic and romantic relationships between women from antiquity onward, including the changing terms, from tribade to a modern identity formed in the nineteenth century.
History of lesbianism in the United States
History of lesbianism in the United States: covers colonial sodomy laws, Daughters of Bilitis (1955), The Ladder, lesbian feminism, lesbian bar decline, DADT, Lawrence v. Texas, and Obergefell v. Hodges.
History of masturbation
History of masturbation: from classical good-humored disdain through the Onania (c.1712–1716) and Tissot (1760) anti-masturbation panic, the nineteenth-century medical crusade, and the twentieth-century reversal to today's health consensus.
History of miscegenation
History of miscegenation: US laws against interracial sex and marriage from 1662 to Loving v. Virginia (1967), covering colonial statutes, the eugenics-era Racial Integrity Act, and repeal timelines.
History of prostitution
History of prostitution (sex work): commercial sex from antiquity, Roman tolerance, medieval municipal brothels, 19th-century regulationism and Josephine Butler's repeal campaign, abolitionism, the 1980 'sex work' coinage, and modern decriminalization and HIV policy.
Holiday
Holiday: a day set aside by religion, custom, or law for rest or celebration, from the secularized "holy day." Covers religious, national, and cultural holidays, world public-holiday counts, and Labor Day's 1894 US origins.
Homeless shelter
Homeless shelter: temporary facility for people who are homeless; also called emergency shelter. Distinguished by no lease requirement under 24 CFR 576.2; part of the Continuum of Care alongside transitional and permanent housing.
Homelessness
Homelessness: lacking a stable, adequate home, from rough sleeping to couch surfing; over 300 million affected worldwide (UN-Habitat). Key approaches include Housing First, pioneered by Sam Tsemberis in 1992, and Finland's national strategy that cut homelessness from 16,000 to about 4,000.
Homelessness in the San Francisco Bay Area
Homelessness in the San Francisco Bay Area: the nine-county region's unhoused population, among the largest in the United States. Third-largest PIT count in 2017 (28,200), 35,118 by 2020, only 33 percent sheltered, concentrated in Alameda, San Francisco, and Santa Clara counties.
Homelessness in the United States
Homelessness in the United States: people lacking a fixed, adequate nighttime residence under 42 U.S.C. 11302. Key facts: McKinney-Vento Act of 1987, HUD Point-in-Time counts (745,652 in 2025), rent-driven causes, Housing First versus Treatment First policy debate.
Homer Hickam
Homer Hickam, also known as Homer Hadley Hickam Jr., is an American author and retired NASA engineer known for Rocket Boys, the 1998 memoir filmed as October Sky.
Homi K. Bhabha
Homi K. Bhabha (born 1949, Bombay) is a postcolonial theorist, Anne F. Rothenberg Professor at Harvard, author of The Location of Culture (1994), known for hybridity, ambivalence, mimicry, and the Third Space.
Homoeroticism
Homoeroticism denotes erotic desire or representation between same-sex individuals, distinct from homosexuality as identity or relationship; used since Ferenczi (1911) and central to LGBTQ history, art history, and media studies.
Homophobia
Homophobia is prejudice, fear, or hostility toward lesbian, gay, and bisexual people, coined by George Weinberg and popularized in his 1972 book; distinguished from heterosexism and linked to measurable LGBTQ+ health harms.
Homosexuality
Homosexuality, also called same-sex sexuality, is sexual, romantic, or emotional attraction or activity between members of the same sex, known as being gay or lesbian.
Homosexuality and psychology
Homosexuality and psychology covers how psychology and psychiatry moved from classifying same-sex orientation as a DSM and ICD mental disorder (removed 1973 and 1990) to minority stress and affirmative care frameworks, and the evidence against conversion therapy.
Homosexuality and the Anglican Communion
Homosexuality and the Anglican Communion covers the dispute over same-sex relationships, from Lambeth I.10 (1998) and Gene Robinson (2003) through GAFCON, the Church of England's 2023 Prayers of Love and Faith, and the 2025 Global Anglican Communion schism.
Homosexuality in China
Homosexuality in mainland China: same-sex conduct legal since 1997, removed from mental disorder lists in 2001, but no same-sex marriage, adoption, or anti-discrimination protections under the Civil Code.
Homosexuality in India
Homosexuality in India: legal and social status of sexual minorities. Section 377 (IPC 1860, colonial) criminalized gay sex until the Supreme Court's unanimous 2018 Navtej Johar ruling; same-sex marriage was refused by the Court in 2023, left to Parliament.
Homosexuality in Japan
Homosexuality in Japan: same-sex desire from Heian and Tokugawa nanshoku/shudō traditions, the brief 1873–1882 keikan sodomy law, and today's marriage-equality litigation, with no national same-sex marriage or comprehensive anti-discrimination law.
Honey trapping
Honey trapping (honeypot, sexpionage): using romantic or sexual relationships to extract secrets, recruit assets, or blackmail targets. Cold War sparrow/raven and Stasi Romeo-spy programs; now digital via dating apps and social media; also a criminal romance-scam method.
Hookup culture
Hookup culture: norms of casual sexual encounters without relationship commitment, associated with US college life. Rooted in 1920s socializing; GSS data show no increase in partners or frequency versus earlier eras.
Hosea Williams
Hosea Lorenzo Williams (1926-2000), American civil rights leader, SCLC executive director and King aide; co-led Bloody Sunday in Selma with John Lewis, led the 1987 Forsyth County march, served in Georgia politics, founded Hosea Helps.
Hotung family
Hotung family (何东家族), prominent Hong Kong Eurasian merchant dynasty descended from trader Walter Bosman. Patriarch Sir Robert Ho Tung (1862-1956), 'grand old man of Hong Kong'; descendants include Eric and Sir Joseph Hotung, major philanthropists.
House of Xtravaganza
House of Xtravaganza (formerly Extravaganza), a New York ballroom house founded in 1982 by Hector Valle and Angie Xtravaganza as the first all-Latinx house, featured in Paris Is Burning and tied to Madonna's Vogue.
Household
Household, in census statistics, is all people occupying one housing unit as their usual residence; distinct from family, which requires two related members. Definitions vary between housekeeping and dwelling concepts, and U.S. composition has shifted toward one-person households.
Housekeeping
Housekeeping is the statistical concept defining a household by shared domestic management (eating, production, consumption) rather than shared dwelling space; it underpins census definitions of households and families and the comparative measurement of family structure.
Housewife
Housewife: a married woman whose main occupation is unpaid household management and care; synonymous with homemaker. Defined by the 19th-century withdrawal-from-labor-market norm, the 708 million women excluded from labor forces by unpaid care work, and declining stay-at-home-parent shares.
Housing First
Housing First is a homelessness intervention that provides immediate permanent housing without requiring sobriety or treatment, developed by Sam Tsemberis in New York City in 1992.