Adjective : a homophile activist organization. From Dictionary.com.
She was already an activist in the nascent "homophile" movement. From Wordnik.com. [About.com Lesbian Life] Reference
GLF's membership wasn't the well-mannered ladies and gentlemen from the "homophile" organizations who, since 1949, had pleaded gently for acceptance, and who made sure to dress "appropriately" when marching or demonstrating. From Wordnik.com. [CounterPunch] Reference
I'm not a homophobe by any stretch of the imagination, but I'm not a homophile either. From Wordnik.com. ["It should be known that Jonathan Crutchley's donation to McCain left the entire Board in disbelief."] Reference
I am so puzzled as to why a “good” homophobe like yourself would keep on defending such a homophile administration. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Rumsfeld on Iran Today = Rumsfeld on Iraq in 2002] Reference
That earlier statement said clergy “cannot claim the liberty to enter into sexually active homophile relationships.”. From Wordnik.com. [Anglican leaders respond to clergymen’s same-sex ‘wedding’] Reference
When homophile organizations staged protests, they consisted of marching in silence for a few minutes, then departing quickly and without a word. From Wordnik.com. [A Renegade History of the United States] Reference
One observer recalled a scene that was the virtual opposite of what the homophile organizations had counseled—and one of the great renegade moments in American history. From Wordnik.com. [A Renegade History of the United States] Reference
And if homophiles claim to be a genetically and immutably formed species why cannot I equally claim to be a genetically formed heterophile and therefore incapable of being a homophile?. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
If I am a heterophile, someone who loves and respects the complementarity of creation, I cannot, at the same time, be its antithesis - a homophile who loves the reduction of everything to the same and equivalence. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
In response to the antihomosexual culture of the 1950s, members of the Mattachine Society, the Daughters of Bilitis, and the Janus Society, the three major homophile organizations, adopted the “politics of respectability” of the civil rights movement. From Wordnik.com. [A Renegade History of the United States] Reference
He used the homophile cast and crew of the pageant as complicit agents. From Wordnik.com. [Intellectual Conservative Politics and Philosophy] Reference
The nation's pioneering homophile groups - Mattachine Society, Daughters of. From Wordnik.com. [The Bay Area Reporter Online | Time travel back to a 1950s gay bar] Reference
But the homophile movement had been making a lot of progress before Stonewall, and they kept on making the progress. From Wordnik.com. [Democracy Now!] Reference
Many in the homophile movement of the time recoiled in horror at Jorgensen, and the ways in which her story was being used. From Wordnik.com. [The Bilerico Project] Reference
But it was like-you know, it was like, I think, adding a rocket propeller to the weak homophile movement that existed before, and then things took off. From Wordnik.com. [Democracy Now!] Reference
National Association for Women, which created enmity between them and other lesbians who felt they were abandoning the homophile movement by aligning themselves with the women's liberationists. From Wordnik.com. [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference
Kameny was among the first to co-opt black civil rights strategies for the homophile movement (as it was then called), calling for direct action instead of waiting patiently for the medical and legal professionals to bestow upon them their official blessings. From Wordnik.com. [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference
Curious thing is, back in the ’60s, ‘homophile’ groups holding public protests - e.g., Society for Individual Rights, Mattachine - routinely had their members dress in conservative, mainstream attire, such as suit ‘n tie for men, tasteful dresses for women, exactly so they wouldn’t attract this sort of criticism. From Wordnik.com. [A Childhood in the Internment Camps] Reference
I also dived into early homophile periodicals. From Wordnik.com. [The Bay Area Reporter Online | Time travel back to a 1950s gay bar] Reference
"After while, homophile!". From Wordnik.com. [DATE MYRA SHOWS UP] Reference
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