Kertbeny: "Homosexual," Fall 1869
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Karl Maria Kertbeny first publicly used his new term homosexuality in the fall of 1869, in an anonymous leaflet arguing against the adoption of the "unnatural fornication" law throughout a united Germany.[1] The public proclamation of the homosexual's existence preceded the public unveiling of the heterosexual.
- ↑ Jonathan Ned Katz, The Invention of Heterosexuality (NY:Dutton, March 1995), pp. 53-54, citing Féray and Herzer, pp. 25, 34-35.
