New York Times: "homosexual," "heterosexual," June 24, 1923
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==Smart Talk from the "Smart Set"
In a survey in the New York Times Book Review of recent fiction, Wilson Follett says that some authors, "advanced sophisticates, poke fun at the canons of the intellectual smart set. Douglas Goldring, in "Nobody Knows" (Small, Maynard) bludgeons the intelligensia in this wise:
- Miss Kate Crocker . . , unless she used the words "sublimate," "libido," "Wasserman test," "homosexual," "heterosexual," "orgasm," and "birth control," so many times in every hour . . . became irritable and discontented like a dipsomaniac when the pubs are closed.[1]
This is the first use of the word "homosexual" and "heterosexual" in The New York Times.
References
- ↑ Wilson Follett, "down The Sooty Fiction Chimney: Novels Since January in a Brief survey -- Confusion of tendencies -- The Favorite Themes," New York Times Book Review, June 24, 1923, pp. 24-27.
