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🧵 Did you know that as far back as people have been researching human sexuality, asexuality has been documented alongside heterosexuality and homosexuality? It's true! In 1869 Karl-Maria Kertbeny described "monosexual" people, meaning then people who only had sex with themselves.
February 8, 2026 at 9:14 PM
jim0novak.bsky.social
The terms "homosexual" and "heterosexual" were coined by Karl-Maria Kertbeny in 1869.

So … the absence of usage before that date “proves” that everyone in the pre-modern work was straight.

It’s just beyond dispute. 🧐😉🤨
July 18, 2025 at 3:57 AM
osaka.zone
The weirdest part of being queer is seeing other queer people deny their queerness with weird cultural inventions like "hetrosexuality", which was popularized in 1869 by Karl Maria Kertbeny.

I hope "hetrosexuality" as they insist its called, is treatable.
April 14, 2025 at 5:57 PM
moonspell2.bsky.social
Karl Maria Kertbeny etabliert wurde. Es ist also unsinnig, die Definition von Begriffen nur ab dem Zeitpunkt zu verwenden, ab dem sie "erfunden" wurden.
August 19, 2025 at 3:03 PM
jackshoulder.bsky.social
#TodayInQueerHistory
May 6 (1868)
Words are powerful. They help us define ourselves and help our sense of identity.
#OTD, Karl Maria Kertbeny wrote a letter to Karl Heinrich Ulrich's which contained the first uses of homosexual AND heterosexual.
May 6, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Chapter 1 The Development of the Allegory of Trans Femininity Sexology, Gay Rights, Psychoanalysis, and Literary Modernism By the time Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institute for Sexual Science began pub- licizing surgical sex change as the salvation and cure for “homosexual transvestites” in the early 1930s, the fi gure of the trans feminine person trapped in the wrong body had been in development for more than half a century. In an 1869 letter to Ulrichs, Karl Maria Kertbeny fi rst coined the term “homosexual” to differentiate masculine men who desire men from trans feminine inverts (Stryker, Transgender History, 37). From the 1870s to the 1900s this distinction proliferated, distilling a trans feminine fi gure who was distinct from both homosexual men and cis women.1 Psychiatric texts from the 1870s and 1880s deemed this “ex- treme effeminate” confused, isolated, and dissatisfi ed with her body and social role. These sexologists considered her mind delusional, her body degenerate, and her feminine gender expression exaggerated. By 1900 a new breed of sexological text that forwarded a gay rights agenda emphasized the rarity of the effeminate “male” invert, while affi rming a strong correlation between masculinity and lesbianism. This evocation and disavowal of “the extreme effeminate” bulwarks the affi rmation of the male homosexual as a virile and ethically refi ned citizen in the 24 ❘ Chapter 1 fi rst texts of gay rights proper (by Edward Carpenter, Andre Gide, and others) in the fi rst decade of the twentieth century. Emma Heaney, "The New Woman"
August 14, 2025 at 2:26 PM
lgbtqhistory.bsky.social
On This Day In LGBTQ+ History:
May 6
On This Day In LGBTQ+ History: 1868: The term “homosexual” is written for the first time by Karl-Maria Kertbeny in a letter to Karl Heinrich Ulrichs. 1897: The California Supreme Court rules that fe...
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May 6, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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1868, May 6: Karl Maria Kertbeny: "Homosexual," "Heterosexual" · Constructing the Heterosexual, Homosexual, Bisexual System, by Jonathan Ned Katz · OutHistory
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April 11, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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karl-maria kertbeny was a late 19th century journalist, translator and gay rights campaigner

and amongst many progressive ideas he expressed, one was to find a neutral term for homosexuality, thus he coined, well, "homosexuality"

it's just a shame his word for wankers, monosexual, didn't catch on
June 27, 2025 at 5:09 PM
lgbtqhistory.bsky.social
kertbeny to ulrichs, 1868, colorized
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May 6, 2025 at 7:29 PM
moonspell2.bsky.social
"Demzufolge sind z.B. in allen Kriegen vor 1886 keine heterosexuellen Menschen ums Leben gekommen, da der Begriff "Heterosexuell" erst dann von Karl Maria Kertbeny etabliert wurde."
Madeleine @missdelein2 1h Homosexuell, schwul & lesbisch scheinen wieder Schimpfwörter zu sein, die man nicht sagen darf. Es wurden homosexuelle Männer systematisch verfolgt. Warum wird das mit einer linksidentitären Ideologie „queer" sprachlich unsichtbar gemacht, die es damals nicht gab? Samstag, 22. November 2025 | 12:00-15:00 | Rundgang KZ-Gedenkstätte Neuengamme, Haupteingang trans* Personen im Nationalsozialismus Mit dem Machtantritt der Nationalsozialist*innen wurden queere Infrastrukturen zerschlagen und queere Menschen waren zunehmend staatlicher Repression und Verfolgung ausgesetzt. So wurden auf Grundlage des 1935 verschärften § 175 nicht nur queere Männer, sondern auch trans Frauen in Konzentrationslager verschleppt. Bis heute wird wenig über trans Personen im Nationalsozialismus gesprochen und wenn, ist das Sprechen darüber immer noch häufig von Transfeindlichkeit geprägt. Der Rundgang findet anlässlich des Internationalen Transgender Day of Remembrance statt und stellt Biografien von verfolgten trans Personen in den Fokus. Dabei werden auch Kontinuitäten der Ausgrenzung nach 1945 sowie Leerstellen in der Forschung zu und im Gedenken an trans* Opfer des Nationalsozialismus thematisiert. Referierende: Ansgar Tonya Karnatz und Jona Diwiak (beide KZ-Gedenkstätte Neuengamme). Kosten: 5 Euro, ermäßigt 3 Euro. Um eine Anmeldung über unser Online-Formular wird gebeten. Nov 28, 2025 10:15 AM UTC 46 38692
November 28, 2025 at 11:42 AM
jackshoulder.bsky.social
#TodayInQueerHistory
May 6 (1869)
Words help us define ourselves, and we are getting better and better at finding the right words for ourselves.
#OTD is the 1st time homosexual was published. It was in a letter written by Károly Mária Kertbeny, a German-Hungarian thinker to Karl Ulrichs.
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May 6, 2026 at 5:36 PM
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Karl Maria Kertbeny (1824–1882) was a Hungarian journalist and gay rights activist. He was also the person who coined the words “heterosexual” and “homosexual.”
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June 20, 2025 at 3:45 AM
madnessmadeforme.bsky.social
Karl-Maria Kertbeny born in Vienna, 1824, coined the terms 'homosexsual' and 'heterosexual' opening the door to genuine conversation. Additionally national socialism placed individuals of the community in camps in Vienna worldqueerstory.wordpress.com/2017/06/20/k...
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May 28, 2026 at 1:49 PM
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Professor Kirishima is here to bust some myths about Asexuality! Time to study our history! You can read more about this explanation at the links below.
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A chalkboard reading asexual mythbusting. Myth: Asexuality is new and just a trend. Fact: The first documented reference to asexuality was in 1869 where Dr. Karl-Maria Kertbeny mentioned "monosexual" alongside homosexuals and heterosexuals.However, like other identities, the erasure of asexuality throughout history does not mean we didn't exist.
January 16, 2026 at 10:39 PM
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Karl-Maria Kertbeny: o pai da palavra "homossexual"
Karl-Maria Kertbeny: o pai da palavra "homossexual"
August 15, 2026 at 7:19 AM
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Where did the word HOMOSEXUAL come from? - Read >>

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🌈 The Man Who Named Us: Karl-Maria Kertbeny and the First Use of the Word “Homosexuality”
“Language shapes thought. Words give us power. And one word changed everything.”
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June 13, 2025 at 9:28 PM
apollo-magazine.com
Before the writer Karl Maria Kertbeny coined the terms ‘homosexual’ and ‘heterosexual’ in 1869, ‘there was no real notion of sexual identity, merely sexual acts that did not necessarily define those enjoying them.’

Peter Parker reviews a show of queer art from the late 19th and early 20th centuries
Art and the invention of the homosexual
A seductive exhibition in Basel explores the variety of sexual identities and how artists have depicted them over the centuries, writes Peter Parker
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June 21, 2026 at 6:45 PM
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🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️Pride, pioneer scientists, late 19th century, advocated for sexual freedom & equality.
Karl-Maria Kertbeny, Austro-Hungarian human rights advocate, coined the word homosexual.
Karl Ulrich, Prussian lawyer & advocate for marriage equality.
Magnus Hirschfeld, German physician, philosopher.
June 15, 2025 at 3:49 PM
joannervej.bsky.social
It was in this context that the term "homosexual" first appeared in 1869, in correspondence between journalist and jurist Karl Heinrich Ulrichs and jurist Karl-Maria Kertbeny. Their writings represent early attempts to describe same-sex physical attraction —
June 24, 2026 at 2:17 AM
oddelf.northsky.social
9) Holding a minor in theology (and from a family of pastors) the interpreted the so-called Clobber passages exactly the same way that progressive Christians do today.

10) The word homosexual was created by Karl-Maria Kertbeny because he didn't like the identity labels Karl invented.
August 28, 2025 at 2:10 PM
lombardinash.bsky.social
Early #GermanGayMovement Texts in Translation. Urania Manuscripts. Paperback, Hardcover, eBook. Magnus Hirschfeld, Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, Anna Rueling, F. Karsch, Karl Kertbeny #MagnusHirschfeld #lgbtqHistory #Transgender & #Intersex & #QueerStudies 🏳️‍⚧️🌈Ο
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February 10, 2026 at 2:36 PM
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Early #GermanGayMovement Texts in Translation. Urania Manuscripts. Paperback, Hardcover, eBook. Magnus Hirschfeld, Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, Anna Rueling, F. Karsch, Karl Kertbeny #MagnusHirschfeld #lgbtqHistory #Transgender & #Intersex & #QueerStudies 🏳️‍⚧️🌈Ο
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January 19, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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Before the writer Karl Maria Kertbeny coined the terms ‘homosexual’ and ‘heterosexual’ in 1869, ‘there was no real notion of sexual identity, merely sexual acts that did not necessarily define those enjoying them.’

Peter Parker on a show of queer art from the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Art and the invention of the homosexual
A seductive exhibition in Basel explores the variety of sexual identities and how artists have depicted them over the centuries, writes Peter Parker
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June 6, 2026 at 9:30 PM