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The word homophile or homophilia refers to a range of positive attitudes and feelings toward homosexuality or towards homosexual individuals and their orientation. It is an exact opposite term for homophobia. People who advocate for or are supporters of the interests, civil rights, and welfare of homosexuals are also at times referred as homophilic, a term which is not in current-use in the 21st century. Later the usage of the term also came to refer to an individual who accepts homosexuals, a supporter of certain rights of homosexuals, one who has positive thoughts about homosexuality, or an advocate of its social acceptance.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''Homophile'' Definition )〕 The use of the word ''homophile'' began to disappear with the emergence of the gay liberation movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s, replaced by a new set of terminology which provides a much clearer identity such as gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender, and in the 1990s terms like queer〔http://www.thefreedictionary.com/queer〕 came along and then collectively the LGBTQ tag become popularized. In the present day it is LGBTQIA,〔http://tahoesafealliance.org/for-lgbqtia/what-does-lgbtqia-mean/〕 still it is all considered under the umbrella term "Homophilia". ==Etymology== The term ''homophile'' is favoured by some because it emphasizes love ("-phile" from Greek φιλία) rather than sex. Coined by the German astrologist, author and psychoanalyst Karl-Günther Heimsoth in his 1924 doctoral dissertation ''Hetero- und Homophilie'', the term was in common use in the 1950s and 1960s by homosexual organizations and publications; the groups of this period are now known collectively as the homophile movement. The Church of England has used the term "homophile" in certain contexts since at least 1991 – e.g., "homophile orientation," and "sexually active homophile relationship."〔''Issues in Human Sexuality: A Statement by the House of Bishops of the General Synod of the Church of England'', December 1991 (London: Church House Publishing, 1991). (【引用サイトリンク】title=Annotated Notes on ''Issues in Human Sexuality'' )〕 In almost all languages where the words "homophile" and "homosexual" were both in use (i.e., their cognate equivalents: German ''Homophil'' and ''Homosexuel'', Italian ''omofilo'' and ''omosessuale'', etc.), "homosexual" won out as the modern conventional neutral term. One exception is Norwegian, where the opposite happened, and "homofil()" is the modern conventional neutral term for "homosexual()" in Norwegian. Quoting and translating from the Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia article "Homofili": () In English and American, "homophilia" was used to some extent; but by the end of the 1960s, it was replaced (those languages ) by "homosexual", "gay", and "lesbian". "Homofili" was first used in Norwegian in a 1951 brochure from the Norwegian branch of the Danish "League of 1948". Norway is one of the few countries where this trend (use words based on "homophil-" instead of "homosexual-" ) is still widespread.〔"Homofili", from (Norsk (nynorsk) Wikipedia ), entry retrieved 2012-06-19. Original text: “I den grad «homophile» hadde fått noko gjennomslag i engelsk og amerikansk, overtok «homosexual», «gay» og «lesbian» denne plassen frå slutten av 1960-talet. «Homofili» blei første gong nytta på norsk i ein brosjyre av den norske avdelinga av det danske «Forbundet af 1948» i 1951. Noreg er eit av dei få (det einaste?) landet der dette omgrepet framleis har stor utbreiing.”〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Homophile」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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