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These doctrines aren't commonly advertised by the religions' main proponents (which is often the Hollywood crowd, who know about as much about real Buddhism as they do about real Christianity), but the Tibetan Buddhists recently had their own miniature version of the Catholic sex scandal in Southeast Asia, though they've done a far better job of rooting out the source of the problem than my church's own bishops.

Hinduism similarly condemns homosexuality quite explicitly in the Vedas and I believe in the Mahabharata as well. A lot of people have this image of Hinduism as being fairly erotic because of the whole kama sutra thing, but that only deals with straight sex and (in its original version) only then between a man and a wife.

Similarly, Taoism sees homosexuality as being in conflict with universal order because Taoists regard each human organ as having a specific function. I think you can follow things from there.

Shintoism sees homosexuality as being in conflict with one of the fundamental duties of its adherents: reproduction, so as to provide more servants for the Emperor (who is the descendant of the sun goddess).

It's a lot more complicated than that, but suffice it to say that religious taboos against homosexuality are about as universal as you can hope to get, right up there with rules against murder, theft, and the like. But I wouldn't wait around for the multiculturalists to point this one out to you.