homosexualist

English

Etymology

From homosexual +‎ -ist.

Noun

homosexualist (plural homosexualists)

1. (now derogatory or humorous, otherwise archaic) Alternative form of homosexual
   • 1918, Albert Abrams, Spondylotherapy:

     Six homosexualists (males?) thus far examined yielded from anatomically perfect testes an ovarian reaction in four instances and in the other two subjects (bisexualists), an ovario-testicular reaction (ovarian by measurement predominating).

   • 1949, George Kingsley Zipf, Human Behavior and the Principle of Least Effort:

     […] roughly speaking, a homosexualist is born and not made.

   • 1983, Michael Denneny, Charles Ortleb, Thomas Steele, The Christopher Street reader, page 297:

     They have got fairly liberal laws on victimless crimes, but the Los Angeles police are still busy entrapping homosexualists because the police chief in Los Angeles is very antifag.

   • 2002, F. Earle Fox, David W. Virtue, Homosexuality: Good and Right in the Eyes of God?:

     […] and how the homosexualist cause is rooted squarely in the secular/pagan view of the cosmos.

   • 2003, Linda Alcoff, Linda Martín Alcoff, Eduardo Mendieta, Identities: Race, Class, Gender, and Nationality:

     Fundamentally, unconsciously, I believe he's a homosexualist.

References

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “homosexualist”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.