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

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 10:58:05AM -0700, Arnold M. Zwicky wrote:
> On Oct 25, 2006, at 10:49 AM, Fred Shapiro wrote:
>
> >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.
>
> ah, i see it now.  in the "homosexual" entry.
>
> 1931 strikes me as awfully late.  but then these impressions of mine
> have been wrong before.

I don't see any quotes from Fred in the ADS-L archives, though
in 2002 he sent OED a 1918 quote. We also have a 1925 from
Aldous Huxley.

Jesse Sheidlower
OED

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