homo

• A contemporary account of one of those Goldman lectures on homosexuality reported: "Every person who came to the lecture possessing contempt and disgust for the homo-sexualists [sic] and who upheld the attitude of the authorities that those given to this particular form of sex expression should be hounded down and persecuted, went away with a broad and sympathetic understanding of the question and a conviction that in matters of personal life, freedom should reign." —  Anarchist news dot org - News for anarchists and their friends
• Don Wildmon and his grotesquely misnamed "American Family Association" are notorious for their homo-hunting and boycotting of any company that treats its gay employees as equals or that advertises in a gay-related publication.
• People hate you here in that typical knucklehead "Gabe's cool for a homo, but I'm sick of gays" way. —  Ace of Spades HQ
• The Lemen brothers made Illinois what it is, a free state The Lemens were personally fine specimens of the genus homo--tall, straight, large, handsome men--magnetic, emotional, fine speakers. —  The Jefferson-Lemen Compact The Relations of Thomas Jefferson and James Lemen in the Exclusion of Slavery from Illinois and Northern Territory with Related Documents 1781-1818
• The question "cur deus--homo", which was by no means clearly formulated in the apologetic writings, in so far as in these "homo" only meant appearance among men, and the "why" was answered by referring to prophecy and the necessity of divine teaching, was by Irenćus made the central point. —  History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7)

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