1972 P. M. McGrady Love Doctors i. 29 The reaction to the twenty or so gay congregations that followed in the wake of the homosexualizing of Pentecostal Reverend Troy Perry's Metropolitan Community Church..has been astoundingly mild.

1991 S. Watney in G. Andrews Citizenship iv. 171 The ‘homosexualising’ of AIDS, and the denial of HIV transmission among heterosexuals offers a semi-magical delusion of intrinsic safety.

1998 R. Woodhouse Unlimited Embrace i. i. 39 It [sc. a Tennessee Williams short story] is about the rape, the homosexualizing of a straight man.

2006 CNN: Larry King Live (transcript of TV programme) (Nexis) 17 Jan. I think what we're witnessing, Larry, is the homosexualizing of America.

1930 F. Dell Love in Machine Age xiii. 309 These young people have as children been encouraged by their home environment toward..healthy sexuality. The homosexualizing influences thus come too late to do them any harm.

1950 G. Legman in G. V. Hamilton & G. Legman On Cause of Homosexuality 31 The personified Machine is today the prime castrating and homosexualizing terror, since fathers personally have lost much of their status in the face of it.

1996 Novel 29 224 The execution of Jos Sedley bespeaks anxious awareness of sophistication's homosexualizing potential.

2008 Representations 101 126 In passages such as this one..we see death assuming a homosexual and homosexualizing tinge.