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homosexual:
1. Relating to or characterized by a sexual-orientation (love or desire) for people of the same sex . 2. A person who is sexually or romantically attracted only to people of the same gender .
ETYMOLOGY: Coined in 1869 by a Hungarian physician named Karoly Maria Benkert from the Greek homos and the Latin sexus, meaning same sex . It entered the English language in 1892 through C . G . Chaddocks translation of Krafft-Ebings Psychopathia Sexualis . The term first appeared in US medical journals in the 1890s, and began appearing in general usage in the 1920s. Historical trivia: In 1973, the American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from its list of mental disorders.
Usage: Homosexual(ity) has long been regarded as etymologically incorrect and confusing being based on the Greek homos , meaning same as, and the Latin homo , meaning man , in which case it excluses women. For this reason but also because of the prejudice attached to it , many terms have been suggested as gender-neutral substitutes for homosexuality including: controsexual , herosexual , homogenic , homoism , homophile , homophylophilia , intermediate-sex , intersexual , isosexual , simulsexual . Other words are gender-specific: androtrope (male homosexual), gyneotrope / gynaeocotrope (a female homosexual), feminosexual (a lesbian , as opposed to homosexual , male homosexual).SEE ALSO: hypothalamus .
QUOTES:
(1) Mae West: ' A homosexual is a female soul in a male body .'
(2) Gay slogan: ' Homosexuality is not a four-letter-word .'
(3) Boris Grushenko (Woody Allen) in Love and Death (1975): ' Some men are heterosexual , and some men are homosexual, and some men don't think about sex at all. They become lawyers .'
(4) Russell (Harold Ramis) to the recruiting sergeant in Stripes (1981): ' No, we're not homosexuals, but we're willing to learn .'
(5) Opal Gilstrap (Raye Dowell), a lesbian in She's Gotta Have It (1986): ' You're not born a lesbian or heterosexual . Both traits are within us. We all have the potential to go either way .'
(6) Murray (Donald Faison) to Cher Hamilton (Alicia Silverstone) about her friend in Clueless (1995): ' Your man Christian is a cake-boy. (...) He's a disco-dancing, Oscar Wilde-reading, Streisand ticket-holder friend of Dorothy. Know what I'm saying? '
See Also: balls like a scoutmaster, pretender to the throne, token-queer, token chicken, Miss Nancy, mixed fruits and vegetables, nancy boy, afghan, African queen, ace gear, ass boy, ass-gunner, ass leech, athenian, aunt fancy, aunt eater, auntie queen, banana car, bats for the other side, batting for the other side, anal buccaneer, anal joyrider, ansy-pay, arse bender, aunt Mathilda, bayot, beef banana boy, beefer, bessie, Bertie, body lover, boss-queen, bottle of scent, botty man, botty boy, bowls from the Pavilion end, Brighton Pier, brown Betty, brown hat, beanor, Beulah-lover, buccaneer, bull nurse, bum jockey, bumhole engineer, bumjuicer, bunghole basher, badido, butt pirate, butterfly queen, call boy, camp bitch, camp queen, chewese, chichi, church member, Clarence Coon, clean queen, clocked, club date, coal burner, cock knocker, cock-suckerish, colon commando, comfort for the troops, commercial trade, corned beef inspector, cosmetic intuition, clock, chocolate bunny, chocolate lover, crafty butcher, dirty lay, ditsoon, DMQ, do-me queen, dorian, dorian lover, drag hustler, drives on the other side of the road, daffodil, dandysette, eer-quay, Egyptian queen, faggot worker, fag stag, fagola, faygeleh, female-identified, female-oriented, feygelah, fifth wheel, flaming, flamer, flaming fruitbar, flitty, flit, fooper, four-letter man, fishwife, flaming asshole, frit, funny man, gas queen, gay bachelor, nan-boy, men's magazine, midnight queen, mollycoddle, Morticia, kabuki, lady lover, lavender boy, lily, linguistic exercise, male-identified, male-oriented, man lover, necrofellow, negrera, nine bob, nola, one of those, pato, payoff queen, pee willy, pee-pee lover, pineapple princess, pineapple queen, poovy, pretty-boy, gay old dog, ginger beer, gladiola, go over, gobette, fruit plate, half a man, haricot, high enough, him-her, himmer, hitchhiker on the Hershey Highway, homo-lover, horse's hoof, intermediate sex, Irish by birth by Greek by injection, jam duff, tondalayo, tooty-frooty, true confession, tulip, tuned in to another channel, turn the corner, twilight personality, twinkle-toes, undercover sissy, vache, vom Anderen Ufer, warm bruder, warme schwester, yeomanette, youwho!, zanie, Zulu princess, Queen Mary, Queen of Scotch, Queen of Sheba, Queen of Spades, queervert, right-handed, ring-tail, same sex lover, same gender oriented, SGO, screaming queen, semen goober smoocher, skillet queen, Stoke-on-Trent, sunkist queen, tautaner, temperamental, tenderfoot, tender talent, third sexer, three-letter man, wibbly, widowed aunt, token-fag queers, adolescent homosexuality, Beaulah, tertium quid, in the closet, gaycat, goes the other way, gump, half-husband, hint of mint, hint of lavender, hand queen, fruiter, jaw queen, jock and boxer, jock hole, iron hoof, jaihouse turnout, pantywaist, pouffe, pouve, play both sides of the fence, pink tea, peg house, mariposa, three-dollar bill, three-legged beaver, tell the folks, suck-sucker, suck-queen, smockface, sexually confused, shadrack, sharpen the pencil, show one's true colors, show house, screaming bitch, Roman night, ranchera, prosodist, prushun, wildeman, wrecked, wreck, yellow-stream queer, sixty-nining, wheelman, waiter, visitor to Marmite valley, visitor to Vegemite valley, urning, undercover punk, twilight, transitional bisexuality, big girl flamboyant, bruise the fruit, chicken-of-the-sea, catapygon, butch in the streets, blue discharge, blown all over the map, blueberry pie, ambibiosis, absolute code, absolute inversion, ace queen, aunt Mame, be outed, back-door conquistador, back seat driver, arse pirate, battybwoy, batty boy, battyman, front marriage, flaming bitch, French language expert, fifty-nine, fifty-nining, fay, fegelah, faggy, effeminative, dazzle the audience, dick peddler, dilly dude, dilly boy, drop one's hairpins, chain fuck, dyna, crushed fruit, chuff chums, closet shakedown, covert homosexual, drop beads, fag bag, faggot's moll, faggoty, feminosexual, fruit-fly, gay trade, androtrope, Beulah, 175er, a bit on the Wilde side, canned fruit, cedarchest sissy, biting daddy, business boy, Turk, tumble a fruit, vegetable, queen bee, sis, lavender, Kinsey Six, nancy, oscar, invert, in the game, Hundred-And-Seventy-Fiver, homoerotic, homoerotophobia, gazoony, Wilde Oscar, geycat, watch queen, closet case, dry queen, closet gay, closet queer, homophile, homosexual,
Quotes Containing homosexual:
Mae West: ''A homosexual is a female soul in a male body.''
Boris Grushenko (Woody Allen) in Love and Death (1975): ''Some men are heterosexual , and some men are homosexual , and some men don''t think about sex at all. They become lawyers.''
Boris Grushenko (Woody Allen) in Love and Death (1975): ''Some men are heterosexual , and some men are homosexual , and some men don''t think about sex at all. They become lawyers.''
Boris Grushenko (Woody Allen) in Love and Death (1975): ''Some men are heterosexual , and some men are homosexual , and some men don''t think about sex at all. They become lawyers.''
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