homosexualist

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

homosexual +‎ -ist

Noun[edit]

homosexualist (plural homosexualists)

  1. (now derogatory or humorous, otherwise archaic) Alternative form of homosexual
    • 1918, Albert Abrams, Spondylotherapy:
      Six homosexualists (males?) thus far examined yielded from anatomically perfect testes an ovarian reaction in four instances and in the other two subjects (bisexualists), an ovario-testicular reaction (ovarian by measurement predominating).
    • 1949, George Kingsley Zipf, Human Behavior and the Principle of Least Effort:
      [] roughly speaking, a homosexualist is born and not made.
    • 1983, Michael Denneny, Charles Ortleb, Thomas Steele, The Christopher Street reader, page 297:
      They have got fairly liberal laws on victimless crimes, but the Los Angeles police are still busy entrapping homosexualists because the police chief in Los Angeles is very antifag.
    • 2002, F. Earle Fox, David W. Virtue, Homosexuality: Good and Right in the Eyes of God?:
      [] and how the homosexualist cause is rooted squarely in the secular/pagan view of the cosmos.
    • 2003, Linda Alcoff, Linda Martín Alcoff, Eduardo Mendieta, Identities: Race, Class, Gender, and Nationality:
      Fundamentally, unconsciously, I believe he's a homosexualist.

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