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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: coming out process, Greek vice, Hellenic love, tautanerism, walk queer street, coming out of the closet, functional homosexuality, situational homosexuality, deprivational homosexuality, accidental homosexuality, badge, lose one's gender, LUG, discover one's gender, lay it out, learn a new way, same sex love, sapphic, blue discharge, sexual orientation, gay chicken, fairy godmother, go public, come out to oneself, commasculation, faggotry, urningism, urnism, vice allemand, wear a cut-glass veil, wear a mourning veil, whiff of lavender, untried, stay in the closet, tampered with, third set, third sex, homophilia, homophylophilia, Hundred-And-Seventy-Fiver, homoism, 175er, coming out, homosexuality, uranist, uranian, wings, closet, the, inversion, lavender, internalized homophobia, Lesbian Until Graduation, dash, deviant sexual behavior, donald duck, Dorian love, Doric love, sexteen, sexteenager, sexual deviance, sexual deviancy, sexual deviation, alternative lifestyle, amor lesbicus, cognoscenti, come out of the closet, camp it up, canned fruit, caught between the pointers and setters, cedarchest sissy, break somebody in, bring out (of the closet), brought out, faggoty, drop one's beads, gay life, gayness, wear one's badge, uranianism, uranism, uranophobia, turn someone out, Greek love, homogenitalism, homogenitality, heterosexology, heterosexual bias, hypersexuality, oscarizing, homosexology, quean, queen's tanks, tribadic, truck driver, turn gay, pain in the ass, that way, that way inclined, third gender, sodomy, homosexual, come out, Greek, homo-, queer, transvestism, transvestitism, turn one out, turn out, homophobia, out, way, fairy hawk, four-letter word, come-on boy, bufu, sapphism, beads, beard, anal intercourse, anal-genital intercourse, anogenital intercourse, arts, baby butch, bait, acey-deucey, metamorphosis sexualis paranoia, love that dare not speak its name, the, cultures, in the life,
Quotes Containing homosexuality:
Gay slogan: ''Homosexuality is not a four-letter-word .''
Gay slogan: ''Homosexuality is not a four-letter-word .''
Robert Reisner. Graffiti. Two Thousand Years of Wall Writing: - ''Fuck scatology.'' - ''Homosexuality is a pain-in-the-ass .''
From Graffiti. Two Thousand Years of Wall Writing by Robert Reisner: ''Homosexuality is a pain-in-the-ass .''
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