Comment on This gay tortoise is older than the word “homosexual”

Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Sphks@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And “The first known public appearance of the term homosexual in print is found in an 1869 German pamphlet.”

  …m.wikipedia.org/…/Terminology_of_homosexuality

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  • tuxiqae@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Which is 36 years after this guy hatched

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    • dangercake@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Can we do agree to use “Sashayed in” rather than “hatched”?

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      • jerkface@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        He’s still more tortoise than he is gay.

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      • moody@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Perhaps he only ambled in.

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      • blazeknave@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I want to look this bc I’m almost genx, but I think it’s sexist? What am I supposed to do in 2025?

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    • GraniteM@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Image

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• mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Alan Davies: “And you could fit his accomplishments on the back of a stamp.”

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  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That one must have enraged Stephen Fry 😄

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