Omaha Daily Bee (Omaha, Nebraska): "homo-sexual," December 16, 1898
The Omaha Daily Bee, a newspaper published in Omaha, Nebraska, uses the word "homo-sexual" in an article headed "Cause and Cure of Anarchy." This is the earliest-known use of the word homosexual in a U.S. newspaper. Medical journals in the U.S. started using the term "homosexual" a few years earlier than the newspapers. See for example: Times and Register (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania): "Homosexual inclinations," October 19, 1895
The Omaha paper appears on the Library of Congress website Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, and was accessed October 16, 2012.[1]
The newspaper reprints an essay titled "Anarchist Crimes and Their Causes" by Cesare Lombroso, professor of clinical psychiatry at the University of Turin, Italy. The Omaha paper says that it reprints the article from the Independent.
Lombroso refers to two men as "homo-sexual", Caeserio and Luccheni. The Italian anarchist, Luigi Luccheni stabbed and assassinated Elizabeth (empress consort of Austria), during her visit to Switzerland in 1889.[2] Another Italian anarchist, Cesario Santo, assassinated the French President, Carnot, at Lyons, June 25, 1894.[3]
Section of the Omaha Bee article using the word "homo-sexual."
Notes
- ↑ http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn99021999/1898-12-16/ed-1/seq-7/;words=homo-sexual?date1=1836&sort=date&date2=1922&searchType=basic&state=&rows=20&proxtext=homosexual&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&index=0
- ↑ Britanica: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/350531/Luigi-Luccheni accessed October 16, 2012.
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Fran%C3%A7ois_Sadi_Carnot accessed October 16, 2012.
