homophile
- adjective
- /ˈhoʊməˌfaɪl/
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homófilo
- The most important point about the U.S. homophile movement in the 1950s was that it managed to be born and survive at all.
- homophile movement
Examples
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The communist-founded gay-rights movement began as a small hermit crab: the "homophile movement."
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The term 'homophile' was often used to describe organizations focused on the rights and needs of homosexual individuals.
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The 1950s and 1960s homophile movement experienced many of the same issues that the current gay and lesbian civil rights movement is experiencing.
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The new leaders of the emerging gay civil rights movement considered the traditional accommodating approach of the early homophile movement slow and dated because of the less conservative approach of other movements.
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Advertisements were placed in homophile publications in the following areas: New York, Boston/Provincetown, San Francisco, Chicago, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington DC, and Los Angeles.
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The question of how gay people fit into the fabric of the American public plagued the homophile movement, causing serious fracturing among the movement's leaders and the gay and lesbian community.
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Consequently, the most successful homophile 'marriages' are those where there is an arrangement between the two to have affairs on the side while maintaining the 'semblance of permanence' in their living arrangement.
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The homophile community worked together to advocate for equal rights and social acceptance.
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In the 1960s, many activists identified themselves as homophile, aiming to promote greater visibility for gay individuals.
Synonyms
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Attracted to people of the same sex
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Relating to people whose sexual or gender identity is not straight
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
homophile = homo + phile
The form is analyzable as 'homo' + '-phile', but the adjective's modern social and cultural use is more specialized than a purely literal 'same-loving' meaning.
Etymology
Homophile comes from homo- ('same') and -phile ('lover' or 'friend'), so as an adjective homophile describes groups, ideas, or activities about love between people of the same sex, especially in early gay and lesbian movements.