homosexuals

Noun

homosexual (plural homosexuals)

1. (typically formal, distancing or dated) A person who is sexually attracted solely or primarily to others of the same sex.
   • It must not be understood that homosexuality is confined to women. Relationships of this type exist also among men, and in taki-taki are to be found words which are specific designations for male homosexuals, who are termed hantimąn, or awɛge.1936, Melville J. Herskovits, Frances S. Herskovits, Suriname folk-lore, New York: Columbia University Press, page 32

   Synonyms:

   This section is divided into two tables, one containing synonyms that generally are not derogatory and one containing those that generally are. However, note that the non-derogatory terms can nonetheless be used derogatorily, and that some of the derogatory ones are often used humorously and non-derogatorily by gay people and others, of either sex* gay, invert, queer, same-sexer, only of men* company man, Uranian

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