[Ads-l] Antedating of "Homosexual" (Adj., of Persons)

[Shapiro, Fred]

homosexual (OED, adj. 1.b., of persons, 1892)

1891 J. A. Symonds _A Problem in Modern Ethics_, chapter VII, in Sean Brady _John Addington Symonds and Homosexuality: A Critical Edition of Sources (2012) 158

In the next place he [Krafft-Ebing] comes to true homosexual individuals, or Urnings in the strict sense of that phrase.

Fred Shapiro

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