Webster dictionary gay

"Homosexuality" makes its debut in this competent dictionary as a "Med." (medical) phrase meaning "morbid sexual passion for one of the similar sex."  Homosexuality was considered a "morbid" (diseased) passion because it was not a passion for procreating, but for sexual pleasure. 

"Heterosexuality" first appears in Merriam-Webster's fourteen years later, in See: Merriam-Webster's New International Dictionary: "heterosexuality,"  

And match the entry on heterosexuality with Merriam-Webster's entry of [1]

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1  Jonathan Ned Katz, The Invention of Heterosexuality (NY: Dutton, March ), page 92, remark 28 on page Brett P. Palmer, of Merriam-Webster's Inc., Springfield,, MA, to Katz, September 17 and October 28, Mr. Palmer assures Katz that "homosexuality" and "homosexual" appears on page of the edition of Websters's International Dictionary. He also says that "heterosexuality" first appears on page xcii of the  supplement of Webster's New International Dictionary, and thatthe contemporary defintion of "heterosexual first appears in the Second Edition of Webster's. K

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