"Someone can commit sexual acts that might be of a homosexual nature but not have a homosexual identity."

"Although his homosexuality was known by those close to him, he never publicly claimed a homosexual identity."

It emerged in the early 1990s as a [Black] culturally affirming homosexual identity.

Among some uninfected men, so is AIDS and their homosexual identity.

The Council also asserts that "there is no convincing evidence that a homosexual identity is ever something genetic or inborn".

In 1989, Troiden proposed a four-stage model for the development of homosexual sexual identity.