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From: Martinez, Michelle [mailto:MMM034@SHSU.EDU]
List Editor: Hera Cook <h.cook@BHAM.AC.UK>
Editor's Subject: FW: OutHistory.org publishes earliest-known use of "homo-sexual" in U.S. press
Author's Subject: FW: OutHistory.org publishes earliest-known use of "homo-sexual" in U.S. press
Date Written: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 22:09:55 +0100
Date Posted: Wed, 16 Oct 2012 17:09:55 -0400

Sent: 16 October 2012 20:49

There's a mention in the Times and Register, Oct. 19, 1895. "Translations from
Foreign Exchanges: The Sterilization of Water by Chemicals. The Etiology of
dysentery. Pervertis et invertis sexuels: les fetischists".

This may be a review or translation of a review, but the term homosexual is
used: "Homosexual inclinations were entirely wanting" is the sentence.

I found this in the Proquest Database "American Periodicals".

Michelle Martinez
Librarian
Newton Gresham Library

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