Repenting from homosexuality.
Answer:
In the name of Allah, the most Beneficent, the most Merciful.
Homosexuality is totally haraam and unlawful in Islam. The perpetrators of such a crime will be severely dealt with by Allah 
in the Hereafter. However, this does not mean you can’t do anything about it. Allah is the Most Merciful, the Most Kind and he forgives all our sins if we sincerely repent for our shortcomings however, grave and serious it may be.
The following are some ahadith which have been taken from Imam Nawawi’s Riyadhus Saliheen indicating towards the merciful nature of Allah .
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Saaiduna Abu Hurairah Radiallahu Anhu reports that I heard the Prophet of Allah
saying: “By Allah, I seek Allah’s forgiveness and repent to Him more than seventy times a day.” (Sahih Bukhari).
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Saaiduna Al-Agharr bin Yasar Al-Muzani
narrated that: The Prophet of Allah said: “Turn you people in repentance to Allah and beg pardon of Him. I turn to Him in repentance a hundred times a day”.
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Saaiduna Anas bin Malik the servant of the Prophet of Allah narrated: The Prophet of Allah said, “Verily, Allah is more delighted with the repentance of His slave than a person who lost his camel in a desert land and then finds it (unexpectedly)”.
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Saaiduna Abu Musa Al-Ash`ari reported: The Prophet of Allah said: “Allah, the Exalted, will continue to stretch out His Hand in the night so that the sinners of the day may repent, and continue to stretch His Hand in the daytime so that the sinners of the night may repent, until the sun rises from the west”. (Sahih Muslim)
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Saaiduna Abu Hurairah narrated: The Prophet of Allah said, “He who repents before the sun rises from the west, Allah will forgive him”.(Sahih Muslim].
The scholars have written if the sin committed is related to Allah , like homosexuality, then there are 3 conditions for the repentance of the sinner to be accepted.
1. Refrains from committing the same sin again.
2. Feels ashamed at what he has done.
3. Makes a firm intention of not committing that sin again.
Insha Allah will give you tawfeeq and the ability to refrain from this sin and will make you come closer to Islam. Ameen.
Only Allah Knows Best
Mohammed Tosir Miah
Darul Ifta Birmingham.