'Homosexualism' vs. 'homosexuality', Russian gay linguistics

[Fred Shapiro]

On Wed, 25 Oct 2006, Arnold M. Zwicky wrote:

> so far as i can see, the OED has entries for neither "homosexualism"
> nor "homosexualist".  rather a lot of google webhits on
> "homosexualism", though, many of them recent.

"Homosexualist" is in OED with a 1931 first use.  I believe I have
antedated this, though.

Fred Shapiro


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