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homosexuality:
Sexual orientation characterized by sexual attraction (love, desire) and formation of romantic relationships with members of ones own 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).
SYNONYMS AND SLANGONYMS: alternative-lifestyle ; Dorian-love ; Doric-love ; faggotry (derog.); gay ; gayness ; Greek-love ; Hellenic-love ; homophilia ; homophylophilia ; homosexualism; learn-a-new-way ; the love that dare not speak its name; oscarizing ; queer (walk queer street); same-sex-love ; that-way ; third gender/set/sex; urinian(ism). Female homosexuality: amor-lesbicus ; sapphism ; tribadic .
SEE ALSO: accidental-homosexuality ; adolescent-homosexuality ; deprivational-homosexuality ; functional-homosexuality ; situational-homosexuality . QUOTES:
(1) Gay slogan: ' Homosexuality is not a four-letter-word .'
(2) ' Homosexuality is a pain-in-the-ass . ' From Graffiti. Two Thousand Years of Wall Writing by Robert Reisner.
(3) Alfred Douglas: ' I am the Love that dare not speak its name .' Last line of his poem: Two Loves .
(4) Oscar Wilde (1854-1900): ' " The Love that dare not speak its name " in this century is such a great affection of an elder for a younger man as there was between David and Jonathan, such as Plato made the very basis of his philosophy, and such as you find in the sonnets of Michelangelo and Shakespeare. It is that deep, spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect... It is in this century misunderstood... and on account of it I am placed where I am now .' (Statement made during his 1 st trial: April 30, 1895).
See Also: badge, come out to oneself, commasculation, coming out process, faggotry, fairy godmother, Greek vice, Hellenic love, go public, lose one's gender, sapphic, sexual orientation, tautanerism, third set, untried, urnism, urningism, vice allemand, walk queer street, wear a cut-glass veil, situational homosexuality, deprivational homosexuality, functional homosexuality, coming out of the closet, accidental homosexuality, coming out, blue discharge, discover one's gender, gay chicken, stay in the closet, tampered with, sexteenager, LUG, lay it out, learn a new way, Lesbian Until Graduation, same sex love, heterosexology, homophylophilia, homophilia, homosexology, wear one's badge, whiff of lavender, third sex, wear a mourning veil, that way inclined, Hundred-And-Seventy-Fiver, homoism, 175er, homosexuality, inversion, homo-, closet, the, uranian, uranist, wings, third gender, that way, tribadic, truck driver, turn gay, turn someone out, uranianism, uranism, uranophobia, cognoscenti, come-on boy, come out of the closet, alternative lifestyle, amor lesbicus, break somebody in, bring out (of the closet), brought out, bufu, camp it up, canned fruit, caught between the pointers and setters, cedarchest sissy, dash, donald duck, Doric love, Dorian love, drop one's beads, gayness, gay life, deviant sexual behavior, faggoty, homogenitalism, homogenitality, Greek love, heterosexual bias, lavender, hypersexuality, internalized homophobia, oscarizing, pain in the ass, quean, queen's tanks, sexteen, sexual deviation, sexual deviancy, sexual deviance, sodomy,
Quotes Containing homosexuality:
Gay slogan: ''Homosexuality is not a four-letter-word .''
Gay slogan: ''Homosexuality is not a four-letter-word .''
From Graffiti. Two Thousand Years of Wall Writing by Robert Reisner: ''Homosexuality is a pain-in-the-ass .''
Robert Reisner. Graffiti. Two Thousand Years of Wall Writing: - ''Fuck scatology.'' - ''Homosexuality is a pain-in-the-ass .''
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