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[–]JulienMayfair 24 insightful - 1 fun24 insightful - 0 fun25 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I'll say it again: "Same-sex attraction" was the neutral term for writing about homosexuality in academic papers in the 1990s to avoid the what was seen at the time as the medical connotations of 'homosexual' and the cultural associations of 'gay.' So you'd write about how same-sex attraction manifested itself culturally in, for example, Classical Greece or Rome or in Japanese feudal military culture.

No one talked about "same-gender" attraction until a couple of years ago.

[–]hufflepuff-poet 16 insightful - 1 fun16 insightful - 0 fun17 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I really like the term "same-sex attraction" because it includes LGB and highlights why we are oppressed/our common ground-- being same-sex attracted. I'd prefer if all our activist spaces used same-sex attraction when discussing our issues rather than homosexual and bisexual or gay rights.