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From: Jonathan Ned Katz [mailto:jnk123@mac.com]
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 17:04:41 +0100
Date Posted: Wed, 16 Oct 2012 12:04:41 -0400

Sent: 16 October 2012 16:46

The Omaha Daily Bee, a newspaper published in Omaha, Nebraska, uses the word
"homo-sexual" in an article headed "Cause and Cure of Anarchy."

This is the earliest-known use of the word homosexual in the U.S. press.

If you know of an earlier reference, let me know.

http://outhistory.org/wiki/Omaha_Daily_Bee_(Omaha,_Nebraska):_%22homo-sexual,%22_December_16,_1898


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