Date:  Tue, 7 Oct 1997 08:04:50 -0400
From:  Fred Shapiro <fred.shapiro[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]YALE.EDU>
Subject: Re: ONE: In & Out of a homosexual magazine

On Sat, 4 Oct 1997, Barry A. Popik wrote:

> ----"HOMOPHILE"----
>
> March 1955, page 8.
>   No "homphobes" here, but "homophiles" are. The paper "The Homophile in
> Society" is reprinted here; it was delivered in its original form to the
> International Congress for Sexual Equality at its 1953 session in Amsterdam
> by its author, Prof. G. Th. Kempe, PH.D. of Utrecht, Holland.
>   OED's first "homophile" citation is 1960.

See my note, "Earlier Citations for Terms Characterizing Homosexuals,"
American Speech 63: 283-85 (1988), for a 1945 usage of _homophile_ by
Henry Gerber, who probably coined the term.



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