[Ads-l] Antedating of "Homosexuality"

[Shapiro, Fred]

homosexuality (OED 1892 [21 Oct.])

1892 Memphis Appeal-Avalanche 2 Apr. 1/5 (Newspapers.com)

Depositions taken by counsel for Alice Mitchell to prove that she is insane, are being received by the Criminal Court clerk ... Some of the experts have gone into the question of homosexuality with great care and advanced sundry learned and scientific theories in regard to that abnormal condition.

Fred Shapiro

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