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The word '''Homosexual''' (meaning sexually or romantically attached to members of the same sex) is a combination of Greek and Latin roots; the Greek element, ὁμός (homos) means "the same" and is not connected with the Latin "homo" meaning "man". The term was invented by the Hungarian writer Károly Mária Kertbeny, in a letter to the German sexologist Karl Heinrich Ulrichs in 1868.<ref>http://www.glbtq.com/social-sciences/kertbeny_km.html article on "Kertbeny, Károly Mária (1824-1882) " in [[GLBTQ]] online< | The word '''Homosexual''' (meaning sexually or romantically attached to members of the same sex) is a combination of Greek and Latin roots; the Greek element, ὁμός (homos) means "the same" and is not connected with the Latin "homo" meaning "man". The term was invented by the Hungarian writer Károly Mária Kertbeny, in a letter to the German sexologist Karl Heinrich Ulrichs in 1868.<ref>http://www.glbtq.com/social-sciences/kertbeny_km.html article on "Kertbeny, Károly Mária (1824-1882) " in the [[GLBTQ]] online encyclopedia.</ref> | ||
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The word Homosexual (meaning sexually or romantically attached to members of the same sex) is a combination of Greek and Latin roots; the Greek element, ὁμός (homos) means "the same" and is not connected with the Latin "homo" meaning "man". The term was invented by the Hungarian writer Károly Mária Kertbeny, in a letter to the German sexologist Karl Heinrich Ulrichs in 1868.[1]
References
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- ↑ http://www.glbtq.com/social-sciences/kertbeny_km.html article on "Kertbeny, Károly Mária (1824-1882) " in the GLBTQ online encyclopedia.