All the things gay people have been labeled as....

[Virge]

@Hardheaded1's thread about the use of the word homosexual got me thinking about this again...

One time in an old gay book from the 1980s I read there was a mile long list of things gay people were called before the words 'gay' and 'homosexual' came along. I don't even remember the name of the book or what it was about except that the Marlboro Man committed suicide... and I don't remember the list of names.

I've looked online several times for other names for homosexuals and gays but never have found one... and I don't mean all the current slang terms but the historical ones.

I remember reading other places about "us" being called
Uranians in a book about Oscar Wilde.

So anyone anyone remember others?

[Rareboy]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_LGBT_slang_terms

They forgot Molly.

[meridannight]

catamite (this is said to be a distorted form of Ganymede, Zeus's lover)
erastes
eromenos


i have several others, but i have to look them up in my library and i'm not at home at the moment. i'll get back to you later.

[East]

I dunno how historical it is but when I found out "Friends of Dorothy" referred to gay man...I liked it

[Virge]

The words I'm talking about are like
Antinousian from Antinous the young guy Emperor Hadrian was so in love with that when he died he made him a god.
[MENTION=21495]Rareboy[/MENTION] --- molly is still a slang word.
@meridan --- catamite = is one. It means a younger paid male escort or consort or even sex slave...

I found one ... Cinade from Latin cinae = drill (a hole)

I'm trying to find one I ran across a few weeks back reading a translation of Latin that had irrumabo (the dominant position of oral sex) translated as "clintonize." which I thought was hilarious... considering what Bill C did. I'm not sure if that's a real word tho

[CellarDweller]

Androphilie - a recent word

[Virge]

Sybarite for a Greek city in Italy sort of famous in the 1700 and 1800s for the pottery and mosaics of men having sex together.

[meridannight]

in Japan, the term wakashu was used for handsome young men, and love of them was called wakashudo, or shudo.

Japan also used a very poetic term nanshoku, meaning 'male colors' to refer to love between men.

in Japan, the Samurai practiced shudo. it was heavily role-centered, meaning one of the lovers was usually an older male teaching the younger. but this relationship was also seen as exclusive, as in both were expected to take no other male lovers.

then there's a term bardache, which actually is thought to originate from Persian barda, which stands for slave.

cinaedus actually comes from Greek kinaidos, a term used to signify effeminancy.

aikane in Hawaii

malakos (Gr.) and pathicus (Lat.) also defined sexually passive men

the term homosexuality was coined by Karl Maria Kertbeny (1824-1882) as homosexualität in 1868.

[JCasey]

I'm trying to find one I ran across a few weeks back reading a translation of Latin that had irrumabo (the dominant position of oral sex) translated as "clintonize." which I thought was hilarious... considering what Bill C did. I'm not sure if that's a real word tho

For the lesbian version, you can drop the first "n" and change the second to an "r"