History of the word "queer"

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Here's what a search of the New York Times database for queer and "homosexua"l before 1981 lists. If anyone wants to look at the actual articles and describe more about how the term queer is identified with homosexual, OutHistory users will greatly appreciate it. We would love to know of more early uses of queer meaning or identified with homosexual, in other sources.

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A Rare Character; THE LAST OF MR. NORRIS. By Christopher Isherwood. 279 pp. New York: William Morro... [PDF] ANY one who enjoys collecting queer specimens of humanity, in real life or in books, should consider Mr. Norris a find. William Bradshaw, who tells the story of a two-year acquaintance with Arthur Norris, found the gentleman irresistibly entertaining....View free preview

May 12, 1935 - Review

CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD, NOVELIST; His "Berlin Stories" Comment Brilliantly On the Dissolution of the... [PDF] RECENTLY, while talking with a man just returned from Hollywood, I asked him what Isherwood was doing. "Oh, he's left the monastery and is writing movie scripts." The reply interested me, among other reasons, because it was said and received without mocke...View free preview

February 17, 1946 - By ALFRED KAZIN - Article

In a Strange Half-World; THE HEART IN EXILE. By Rodney Garland. 314 pp. New York: Coward-McCann. $3... [PDF] THIS is a strange novel, perhaps because it is about strange people, in that they differ from the rest of us who call ourselves normal. And yet (as the reader will quickly learn from this sensitive and deeply perceptive story of the homosexual and his und...View free preview

October 31, 1954 - FRANK G. SLAUGHTER. - Review

The Two Elusive Diplomats; Donald Maclean--Guy Burgess Men in the News [PDF] DONALD MACLEAN and Guy Burgess have already figured in hundreds of thousands of words in newspapers; experienced mystery writers have sold stories about them to magazines, and they figure, Maclean predominantly, in at least two books....View free preview

February 12, 1956 - Article

Twisted Passengers Caught in the Cyclone's Eye; MASTER OF THIS VESSEL. By Gwyn Griffin. 398 pp. New... [PDF] GWYN GRIFFIN has already been ticketed as a writer of promise, and in this new novel he continues to live up to his reputation. Hatred of the English people is the animus of his newest tale; and hatred, projected with youthful vigor, is bound to twist som...View free preview

August 6, 1961 - By E.B. GARSIDE - Review

STERILE FARCE; 'Zazie' Symptomatic of Fault in Foreign Films [PDF] PERHAPS it is foolish and extravagant to pay any serious mind to such a thing as Louis Malle's new French picture, "Zazie," now on the Paris Theatre's screen. It is plainly a lot of arrant nonsense, put out as a frisky farce or perhaps a sophisticated sat...View free preview

November 26, 1961 - By BOSLEY CROWTHER - Article

Once There Was a Hero, Now Only His Legend Remains; Once There Was a Hero [PDF] NO one who did not know T.E. Lawrence can hope to write of him with complete sympathy or authority. He impressed a number of his contemporaries, ranging from ......View free preview

August 25, 1963 - By GEORGE STEINER - Article

A Loveless World's Last Hope for Meaning; BEHOLD GOLIATH. By Alfred Chester. 240 pp. New York: Rand... [PDF] ACCORDING to an iron law of publishing, though not necessarily of literature, after the first novel comes the first collection of stories. It is the reminder, in the long, exhausted pause between novels, which may run anywhere from a year to a decade to a...View free preview

April 19, 1964 - By SAUL MALOFF - Review

Excerpts From Testimony by Hoover [PDF] WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 (AP) -- Following are excerpts from testimony of J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, before the Warren Commission on May 14, as reported in a copyrighted article today by The Washington Star:...View free preview

October 3, 1964 - Article

SPEAKING OF BOOKS: John Horne Burns; Burns [PDF] IN 1947 "The Gallery" by John Horne Burns was published, to great acclaim: the best book of World War II. That same year Burns and I met several times, each a war novelist, and each properly wary of the other. Burns was then 26 but looked older, with a re...View free preview

May 30, 1965 - By GORE VIDAL - Review