请提供一段介绍同性恋发展历史的英文材料

In the old days, terms for homosexuality included "the passion of the cut sleeve" (断袖之癖, Mandarin, Pinyin dùanxìu zhī pǐ), and "the bitten peach" (分桃 py fēntáo). Other, less obscure terms have included "male trend" (男风 py nánfēng), "allied brothers" (香火兄弟 py xīanghǔo xīongdì), and "masculine-dragon preference" (龙阳癖 py lóngyángpǐ).

The formal word for "homosexuality/homosexual(s)" is tongxinglian (同性恋, py tóngxìnglìan, literally same-sex relations/love) or tongxinglian zhe (同性恋者, py tóngxìnglìan zhě, homosexual people). Instead of this formal word, "tongzhi" (同志 py tóngzhì), simply a head-rhyme word, is more commonly used in the gay community. Tongzhi (literally means 'comrade', and sometimes nü tongzhi, 女同志 py nǚ tóngzhì, literally "female comrade") which was first adopted by Hong Kong researchers in Gender Studies, is used as slang in Mandarin Chinese referring to homosexuals, while i