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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.
Honky
Honky (honkie, honkey) is an offensive North American slang term for a white person, used chiefly by Black speakers; attested by 1967, probably from "hunky," a slur for East-Central European immigrants.
Honne and tatemae
Honne and tatemae are Japanese concepts distinguishing private feelings (honne) from public statements presented to conform to social expectations (tatemae), a distinction treated as social skill rather than dishonesty.
Honour
Honour (honor) is social standing and self-worth in one's own and others' eyes, studied as a cultural logic alongside face and dignity; honor cultures emphasize reputation defense, reciprocity, and retaliation against insults.
Hookah lounge
Hookah lounge (shisha lounge, hookah bar): a hospitality venue where customers smoke flavored waterpipe tobacco for a fee. Known for group sessions, heavy indoor PM2.5 and CO levels, and smoke-free-law exemptions in many US states.
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.
Hoosier
Hoosier: demonym for a native or resident of Indiana and nickname of Indiana University's teams. In general use since the 1830s; origin uncertain, with Dunn's Cumberland 'hoozer' hill-dweller theory and Smith's 1830 Ohio River boatmen thesis as leading accounts.
Hope
Hope in psychology is positive expectation for the future, defined most influentially by Snyder's theory as agency plus pathways thinking toward goals; distinct from optimism, measured by the Adult Hope Scale, and linked to better mental and physical health.
Hope Florida
Hope Florida is Casey DeSantis's 2021 welfare-navigation program using Hope Navigators; its foundation received $10 million from a 2024 Centene Medicaid settlement that a grand jury found was misappropriated into anti-Amendment 3 political spending, with no charges filed.
Hopi
The Hopi are a Pueblo people of northeastern Arizona whose sovereign Hopi Tribe governs 12 villages on three mesas across more than 1.5 million acres, with a Tribal Council established in 1936 and a homeland surrounded by the Navajo Nation.
Horse culture
Horse culture: societies and communities whose way of life centers on herding, breeding, and riding horses, from Botai and steppe pastoralism to Plains Indigenous and modern rodeo cultures.
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.
Hossam Shabat
Hossam Shabat (حسام شبات), Palestinian journalist, 23, Al Jazeera Mubasher correspondent in northern Gaza and Drop Site News contributor, killed March 24, 2025 in an Israeli strike on his car in Beit Lahia; IDF called him a Hamas sniper, which he denied.
Hostile attribution bias
Hostile attribution bias is the widespread tendency to interpret other people's ambiguous actions as intended to cause harm, first described in 1979 and associated with aggression, conduct disorders, and narcissism.
Hottentot (racial term)
Hottentot, also Hottentotten or Afrikaans Hotnot, is a colonial-era racial exonym for the Khoikhoi (Khoekhoe) peoples of southern Africa, coined in 1670s Dutch from syllables imitating click speech, now offensive and replaced by Khoikhoi.
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.
Housing for the Elderly
Housing for the Elderly: housing arrangements for older adults fostering independent living (group homes, small apartments, CCRCs), distinct from supervised homes for the aged; covers US policy history, costs, design, and aging in place.
Housing in Vienna
Housing in Vienna, the Wiener Wohnbau model or Red Vienna legacy: a system of about 220,000 municipal and 200,000 co-operative social flats serving a broad middle class, with high income limits, regulated rents, and 70–80% subsidized new construction.
How the Other Half Lives
How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York is Jacob Riis's 1890 Scribner's book documenting New York tenement poverty with flash photography; it founded American social documentary photography and prompted tenement reform.
How to Win Friends and Influence People
How to Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie's 1936 self-help classic from Simon & Schuster, presents 30 principles in four parts for tact, appreciation, listening, and influencing people without resentment; over 15 million copies sold.
Hromada movement
The Hromada movement (громадівський рух) was a Ukrainian national movement operating in the Russian Empire during the 19th century. It promoted cultural and educational activities despite strong imperial repression.
Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff Sr.
Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff Sr., German-born Philadelphia typesetter (died 1997), held the longest recorded personal name: 26 given names and a several-hundred-letter compound surname.