POLS 2150 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Paraphilia, Essentialism, Queer Theory

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Homosexual was not used until the 1890"s when it was coined by havelock. Ellis: often associated with medicine and pathologizing. 1960"s liberationists tried to capture the term gay instead: had a more favorable connotation than homosexual. Keith thomas didn"t appreciate them turning gay into something new: chosen label seems bizarrely inappropriate . Term queer was used in the 1910"s and 1920"s, allowed men who were different a way to describe themselves. Term gay didn"t begin to catch on until the 1930"s. 1990 encyclopedia of homosexuality prematurely said that the dying out of the word queer meant that people were more accepting of homosexuals. Homosexual, gay and lesbian are not synonyms. Homosexual was the way the hostile society labeled them, gay was the way they labeled themselves. Queer was popularly adopted in the 1990"s. Queer"s non-specificity guarantees it against recent criticisms made of exclusionist tendencies of lesbian and gay as categories.

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