This term is sometimes used to refer to sexual feelings :
- Gays, lesbians, sociologists, psychologists, researchers into human sexuality, members of liberal and some mainline faith groups normally define this as one of four normal and natural sexual orientations experienced by adults, involving an exclusive, permanent and unchosen attraction to members of the same gender. It is probably set up by a person's genetic coding, and enabled by some unknown event in the environment in early childhood.
- The term is sometimes used to refer to sexual behavior :
Sexual activity between members of the same gender.