Homosexuality facts for kids

Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, the former Prime Minister of Iceland, was the first openly gay head of government in modern times.

In October 2014, Apple CEO Tim Cook became the first CEO of a Fortune 500 company to publicly come out as gay.

Homosexuality is a sexual orientation. A homosexual person is romantically attracted to people of their own gender. Men who are romantically attracted to other men are called gay. Women who are romantically attracted to other women can be called gay as well, but are usually called lesbians. People who are romantically attracted to men and women are called bisexual.

Together homosexual, bisexual, and transgender people make up the LGBT community, which stands for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender. It is difficult to say how many people are homosexual. Homosexuality is known to exist in all cultures and countries.

Images for kids

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  Female youths are depicted surrounding Sappho in this painting of Lafond "Sappho sings for Homer", 1824.

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  Sappho reading to her companions on an Attic vase of c. 435 BC

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  Roy and Silo, two New York Central Park Zoo male chinstrap penguins similar to those pictured, became internationally known when they coupled and later were given an egg that needed hatching and care, which they successfully provided.

See also

In Spanish: Homosexualidad para niños