(1) Returning to the 1960s, ‘gay’ quickly rose in popularity, supplanting the more plodding labels ‘homosexual’ (which had a medical connotation), and ‘ homophile ’ (which sounded like pedophile.)(2) The women's grave markers are quite tame, but as you stroll through the grounds, you may eventually come upon a most impressive tomb - for the famous English homophile , Oscar Wilde.(3) By then I'd taken courses in literature and language - from Latin drama to modern poetry, from restoration drama to homophile studies.(4) Part 3 concentrates on the interaction between gay men and lesbians in the homophile movements of the period 1960-1969 which he usefully dubs ‘militantly respectable’.(5) That was when Latinos, Asians and African-Americans began to play a leading role in the homophile movement.(6) Advertisements were placed in homophile publications in the following areas: New York, Boston/Provincetown, San Francisco, Chicago, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington DC, and Los Angeles.(7) It's the liberal homophiles who will be given a green light to do such things as push homosexuality onto your children in the public schools.(8) In the AIDS cauldron of the late '80s, many of us were frustrated by what seemed like the complacency of older gays, just as they had once been frustrated by the meekness of an even earlier generation of ‘ homophiles .’
