Homophobia is observable in critical and hostile behavior such as discrimination and violence on the basis of sexual orientations that are not exclusively heterosexual. At the same time as many first nations peoples revered homosexuals in their communities, by contrast in the United Kingdom it was King Henry VIII who first introduced the death penalty for homosexuals. He may have been influenced by his friend Cardinal Thomas Wolsey and the story of Sodom and Gomorrah. As the United Kingdom later established colonies around the world, the law was transplanted into the legal systems of other countries.

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