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[quote=Anonymous]Some American Indian tribes had a "third" gender - men who lived as women and were accepted as such and had relations with men.

Also, I know that in certain Pacific Islands, same sex relations are pretty well accepted among men.

Additionally there are lots of places around the world where men have sex with men (eg, Mexico, US prisons) but one member of the coupling doesn't define himself as homosexual because he is the "active" partner.  That is, only "sissies" are homosexuals in this view.

And a friend told me once that in Kuwait men could have sex every which way with each other as long as they didn't say they were in love or live with another man.  Probably the same principle as the paragraph above.  Lots of men having sex with men but you're only "homosexual" if you act a certain way.

Sorry I don't have more details on this.  Except from my friends' story, I am remembering the vague outline of an article I read years ago.  At any rate the reality is that there is a lot more sexual variation historically and currently than the bigots want to acknowledge.  They haven't done their research.[/quote]

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