homosexualism
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Etymology edit
homosexual + -ism
Noun edit
homosexualism (uncountable)
- (dated) Homosexuality, the state of being homosexual.
- 1949, George Kingsley Zipf, Human Behavior and the Principle of Least Effort:
- If we take the case of the person with the genitalia of one sex who nevertheless tries to imitate the sexual behavior of the opposite sex, we come upon the fairly frequent phenomenon of homosexualism, […]
- 1953, Ellis Arthur Stephens, Lawless youth:
- Similar behavior is noted in unconscious homosexualism. The nearness of a person of the same sex may cause anxiety. This is guarded against by taking precautions that the body is not touched in any way suggestive of familiarity.
- 2007, Sunil Kumar Sarker, A Companion to E. M. Forster, volume 1, page 145:
- He was also a secret preacher of homosexualism; throughout his long literary career he, from time to time, as opportunities presented themselves, made subtle and votive references to homosexual orientation in his creative works.
- (derogatory) A purported ideology behind (and promoting) homosexuality; gayness viewed as an ideology rather than a sexual orientation.
- Synonym: gayism
- Coordinate term: transgenderism
- 2000, Christopher Wolfe, Same-sex Matters: The Challenge of Homosexuality, Spence Pub:
- I agree with Christopher Wolfe's assessment of the social danger of the ideology of homosexualism : "The most significant harm of legitimizing active homosexuality — the way it would harm the family most — would be the educative […]
- 2015 August 26, Religious and Sexual Nationalisms in Central and Eastern Europe: Gods, Gays and Governments, BRILL, →ISBN, page 56:
- The Church is mounting an antimodernist defense against the assault from the Western “ideology of homosexualism” (sic) whereby the issue is being relocated from the field of human rights to the sphere of moralism.
- 2017 September 26, Stephen M. Krason, Catholicism and American Political Ideologies: Catholic Social Teaching, Liberalism, and Conservatism, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 124:
- This probably reflects the platform's eager support for homosexualism (“gay rights”), since the statistics compiled by the U.S. Government itself have shown that it is male homosexuals who are the group most afflicted by HIV/AIDS.182 […]
- 2018 April 24, Paul Gottfried, Theologies and Moral Concern, Routledge, →ISBN:
- Unlike the Libertine, who has no coherent philosophy, the Progressive in usually in the thrall of a rigid, comprehensive, sociopolitical ideology. Marxism, feminism, homosexualism, and environmentalism are the most common.
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- lesbianism (applied only to women)