Fantastic article. Thank you so much for sharing. Will definitely be linking this to a few people.

So: at what point was there consensus that there was no such thing as same-sex attraction, and how did it come to be that all terms such as homosexuality, bisexuality, gay or lesbian were rewritten to accommodate members of the opposite sex?

Hit the nail on the head.

Essentially, from this point on, same-sex attracted people would be unable to assert their own existence or have a word in language for themselves without building up a significant body of academic work in justification.

Which is absolutely crazy.

And humanities academic areas are incredibly political... it would take a long time for regular LGB people to establish any sort of meaningful foothold there defending the facts of our existence.

What a crazy world.

edit: Only one qualm with this article:

When you cannot name it, you cannot measure it, and it ceases to exist.

Yes to the first two points, no to the third. LGB people will exist regardless-- just, shunned and isolated and oppressed, even if we are not named. We will only seem not to exist to the general population.