James Smalls

I am very distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan; very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love was wonderful, passing the love of women.” (2 Samuel 1: 19-26)

Sodomites are sentenced to run naked over burning sand and under a steady rain of fire – a punishment reminiscent of the biblical destruction of Sodom itself.

The former was coined and first put into use by the German–Hungarian writer and translator Karl Maria Kertbeny (1824–1882).