How do you use the word "homosexual" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "homosexual" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "homosexual": Between ourselves, he seems to be a homosexual. Among wild ducks, it seems there are homosexual necrophiliacs.

Homosexual Meaning

/ˌhɒməʊˈsɛksjuːəl/

Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

adjSexually and/or romantically attracted to members of the same sex, such as a man who is attracted to men or a woman who is attracted to women; gay. (Typically used in the sense of sole/exclusive attraction.)

adjSexually and/or romantically attracted to members of the same sex, such as a man who is attracted to other men or a woman who is attracted to other women; gay. (Typically used in the sense of sole/exclusive attraction.)

Sentence Examples

Between ourselves, he seems to be a homosexual.

Among wild ducks, it seems there are homosexual necrophiliacs.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

gay lesbian queer

Antonyms:

bisexual heterosexual

CEFR Practice Quiz

He was a ____ man who loved another man deeply.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The organization advocate for the rights and visibility of ____ individuals globally.

Word Origin & History

Borrowed from German homosexual, from homo- (“same”) + sexual (“relating to sex or sexuality”), coined by Karl Maria Kertbeny in 1868, and popularized in Richard von Krafft-Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis (2nd ed. 1887, in German) and Charles Gilbert Chaddock's 1892 English translation thereof (compare bisexual), displacing the slightly older term Uranian. Equivalent to homo- + -sexual.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"[H]e said he had never noticed anything homosexual in himself." — 1892 [1889], Charles Gilbert Chaddock, transl., Psychopathia Sexualis, Philadelphia: F. A. Davis, translation of Psychopathia Sexualis by R. von Krafft-Ebing, page 97:

""Significant results indicate that Swedes would choose a more masculine partner the more homosexual they are, and that Finns would choose a more attractive partner the more homosexual they are."" — 1983, Michael W. Ross, Homosexuality and Social Sex Roles:

"Shatner: Have you ever had a homosexual experience? Maher: No. Why, are you...? But it's early!" — 2022 March 20, Bill Maher, William Shatner, 56:37 from the start, in William Shatner, Club Random With Bill Maher, episode 1, Club Random Podcast, archived from the original on 05 Apr 2022:

"A petition drive to close all homosexual establishments in response to an assumed general AIDS contagion was begun in late October, according to The Weekly News of Miami." — 1983 December 24, “Effort To Close Gay Businesses Underway”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 23, page 2:

"It must not be understood that homosexuality is confined to women. Relationships of this type exist also among men, and in taki-taki are to be found words which are specific designations for male homosexuals, who are termed hantimąn, or awɛge." — 1936, Melville J. Herskovits, Frances S. Herskovits, Suriname folk-lore, New York: Columbia University Press, page 32:

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