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homosexuality

romantic or sexual attraction or behavior between members of the same sex
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Summary

homosexuality is a sexual orientation[1]. homosexuality draws 31,466 Wikipedia views per month (sexual orientation category, ranking #5 of 37).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: romantic orientation[3]
  • Named after: homo-[4], sexuality[5]
  • Follows: prehomosexual[6]
  • Subclass of: non-heterosexuality[7], monosexuality[8], homoaffectivity[9]
  • Commons category: Homosexuality[10]
  • Said to be the same as: homosexualism[11]
  • Opposite of: heterosexuality[12]
  • Has part(s): lesbianism[13], male homosexuality[14], situational sexual behavior[15]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Homosexuality[16]
  • Commons gallery: Homosexuality[17]
  • Described by source: Otto's encyclopedia[18], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[19], Red Blue Translator[20]
  • Used by: homosexual[21]
  • Has effect: same-sex relationship[22]
  • NCI Thesaurus ID: C84363[23]
  • Different from: homoromantic[24], homosociality[25]
  • Hashtag: homosexual[26]
  • Permanent duplicated item: homsexualism[27]
  • Named by: Karl-Maria Kertbeny[28]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject LGBTQ+ studies[29], Wiki99/LGBT+[30], Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[31]

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Influence

Things named for homosexuality include LGBTQ term[32], an initialism[33] and Homintern[34], a conspiracy theory[35].

Why It Matters

homosexuality has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[36] homosexuality is known by 46 alternative names across languages and contexts.[37]

Entities named for homosexuality include LGBTQ term[32], an initialism[33] and Homintern[34], a conspiracy theory[35].

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . allsides.com. allsides.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . books.openedition.org. books.openedition.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [33] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [35] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [36] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [37] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 12w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority id → Q295011
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Biblissima authority id: Q295011, Import ID Biblissima V3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/627d4912166|details]])"
  2. 16w ago · Andre Engels · 2026-06-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Oxford classical dictionary id → 3142
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Oxford classical dictionary id: 3142, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/107285369|homosexuality (#107285369)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/4102|Oxford Cl"
  3. 17w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → homosexuality
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: homosexuality, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289933006|homosexuality (#289933006)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's ta"
  4. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0004809-homosexualita
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0004809-homosexualita, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259497|batch #259497]]"
  5. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Used by → —
    On focus list of wikimedia project → WikiProject LGBTQ+ studies, Wiki99/LGBT+, Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
    Subclass of → non-heterosexuality, monosexuality, homoaffectivity
    Instance of → sexual orientation, romantic orientation
    + 19 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|6 */ Yso id: 1825, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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