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homosexual, a. and n.|həʊməʊ-, hɒməʊˈsɛksjuːəl|
[Irreg. f. homo- + sexual a.]
A. adj. Involving, related to, or characterized by a sexual propensity for one's own sex; of or involving sexual activity with a member of one's own sex, or between individuals of the same sex.
1892C. G. Chaddock tr. Krafft-Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis iii. 255 He had been free from homo-sexual inclinations. Ibid. 256 The homo-sexual woman offers the same manifestations, mutatis mutandis. 1897H. Ellis Stud. Psychol. Sex I. i. 2 Among animals in a domesticated or confined state it is easy to find evidence of homosexual attraction, due merely to the absence of the other sex. 1914G. B. Shaw in New Statesman 14 Nov. 21/2 The forty tolerated homosexual brothels of Berlin. 1921E. J. Kempf Psychopath. xiii. 645 Her social interests were decidedly homosexual. 1921Blackw. Mag. Jan. 134/2 What the nature of the friendship was we cannot say; it may have been homo-sexual, a love which was common among the later Greeks. 1929R. Graves Good-Bye to all That iii. 40 In English preparatory and public schools romance is necessarily homosexual. 1942Jrnl. Compar. Psychol. XXXIII. 160 Homosexual mountings are characteristic of the male Rhesus monkey, particularly during adolescence. 1948A. C. Kinsey et al. Sexual Behav. Hum. Male xxi. 610 A considerable portion of the population..has at least some homosexual experience between adolescence and old age. 1961E. Waugh Unconditional Surrender ii. vii. 173 ‘I'm sure you aren't a pansy.’ ‘Pansy?’ ‘You're not homosexual?’ Even this did not disconcert Uncle Peregrine... ‘Good gracious, no. Besides the ‘o’ is short. It comes from the Greek not the Latin.’ 1963A. Heron Towards Quaker View of Sex iii. 24 Not all effeminate men are homosexual, and few homosexual men can be really described as effeminate. 1965Rosen & Gregory Abnormal Psychol. xviii. 381 Homosexual behavior in human females, also known as lesbianism or sapphism,..is less likely to arouse social censure than male homosexuality. 1973Daily Tel. 5 Apr. 9/8 For the first time at a National Union of Students conference homosexual and lesbian students spoke out openly.
B. n. A person who has a sexual propensity for his or her own sex; esp. one whose sexual desires are directed wholly or largely towards people of the same sex.
In non-technical contexts it is often taken to mean a male homosexual, a female one being termed a lesbian.
1912E. Paul tr. A. Moll's Sexual Life of Child v. 127 An adult homosexual who as a child once did some needlework for a joke. 1932S. Gibbons Cold Comfort Farm xi. 153 There were many homosexuals to be seen in Hyde Park. 1954W. Mayer-Gross et al. Clin. Psychiatry iv. 179 Male homosexuals are frequently classified into the active and the passive type; female homosexuals into the masculine and feminine. 1955Sci. News Let. 21 May 334/3 The idea that homosexuals are necessarily bad security risks is debunked in a report..before the American Psychiatric Association. 1969A. Glyn Dragon Variation vii. 198 Uses quite a lot of cologne, doesn't he? Is he a homosexual? 1973Daily Tel. 10 July 6/3 Homosexuals and lesbians make up a sizeable minority of the population.
Hence homoˈsexualist, a homosexual.
1931A. Eiloart tr. Heyer's Hypnosis xiii. 204 It should be considered that a homosexualist thus suggestively transformed for weeks or even months, marries..within that time. 1933H. Williamson Gold Falcon i. 19 His book..proving..that Hamlet should be played as a homosexualist in vain love with Horatio had just been published. 1961― Innocent Moon v. 100 Even Jesus.. according to Nordau..was a homosexualist and should have been locked up. 1971Southerly XXXI. 84 He consigned me to the lavatory-cleaning brigade together with a group of homosexualists.
▸ homosexual marriage n. = gay marriage n. at gay adj. and adv. and n. Special uses 2b
1955D. S. Bailey Homosexuality & Western Christian Trad. ii. 35 Several commentators have held that the law deals with the formation of a *homosexual ‘marriage’ between a slave and a free youth. 1971Times 15 July 13/1 He has shed a wife and daughter and moved back to live with a former pupil who is on the point of deserting him for homosexual marriage with a publisher. 2001Church Times 18 May 12/1 The editorially conservative National Post was the surprising source of a poll showing that the majority of Canadians support homosexual marriage.
▸ homosexual panic n. orig. Psychol. (chiefly among men) uncontrollable fear or anxiety as a reaction to one's own or another's homosexuality; (in later use, esp. in U.S. legal contexts) = gay panic n. at gay adj. and adv. and n. Special uses 2b; freq. attrib. in homosexual panic defence and variants.
1921E. J. Kempf Psychopathol. x. 477 The mechanism of the *homosexual panic (panic due to the pressure of uncontrollable perverse sexual cravings) is of the utmost importance in psychopathology. 1972Psychoanal. Rev. 59 295 (title) Fragmentary psychoanalytic treatment of acute homosexual panic. 1991Raritan Summer 129 It would not require a willfully homophobic reader to understand these discussions of the centrality and power of male homosexual panic as actually contributing to the credibility of the pathologizing ‘homosexual panic’ legal defense of gay-bashers. 2001Times Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) (Nexis) 19 Nov. a12 Gareth Kirkby, editor of the gay publication Xtra West, called on the federal government to eliminate what is known as the ‘homosexual panic defence’ which has been used in court to prevent justice from being done to those who attack gays. |
