Same-sex

Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective

Meaning

Restricted to members of a single sex..

Definitions by Sense

1. Restricted to members of a single sex.
2. Of, relating to, or between homosexual men or women.

Example Sentences

a same-sex school

Some nations have legalized same-sex marriage.

Buffeted by criticism of his policy on Europe, battered by rebellion in the ranks over his bill to legalize same-sex marriage and wounded by the perception that he is supercilious, contemptuous and out of touch with mainstream Conservatism, Mr. Cameron earlier this week took the highly unusual step of sending a mass e-mail (or, as he called it, “a personal note”) to his party’s grass-roots members.

While there are a number of human characters—for example Steve Cortez, Kelly Chambers, Diana Allers, and Samantha Traynor—offered as potential same-sex partners for Shepard, these characters are not romance options until Mass Effect 2 or 3. Only Kaidan Alenko, among human same-sex romantic partners, participates in the player's squad at any time, providing he was not sacrificed in the first game, making most same-sex partners marginal to the player's overall experiences within the game.

The Taipei High Administrative Court on July 21 ruled that same-sex partners Lu Yin-jen (盧盈任), a Taiwanese, and Eizaburo Ariyoshi, a Japanese, should not have been barred from registering their marriage at a local household registration office.

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• same sex

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