New York Times: "homosexual," "heterosexual," June 24, 1923
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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."
He adds that Douglas Goldring, in the novel "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 "heterosexual" and the second use of the word "homosexual" in The New York Times.[2]
The word "homosexual" was first used in the Times in 1914, in an essay written for the Times by George Bernard Shaw. See: New York Times: "homosexual," November 22, 1914[3]
See also:
Heterosexual History Timeline
New York Times: "homosexual," November 22, 1914
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References
- ↑ This OutHistory.org entry is by Jonathan Ned Katz. 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.
- ↑ Search of New York Times electronic archive 1851-1980.
- ↑ George Bernard Shaw, "Common Sense About the War: An Amazing Article Written for The New York Times (Second Installment)," New York Times, November 22, 1914.
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