Difference between Queer and Homophile

What is the difference between Queer and Homophile?

Queer as an adjective is (somewhat old-fashioned) weird, odd or different. while Homophile as an adjective is homosexual, gay or lesbian, having a sexual or romantic preference for persons of one's own gender; .

Queer

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: (somewhat old-fashioned) weird, odd or different. (somewhat old-fashioned) slightly unwell (mainly in to feel queer). homosexual. having to do with homosexuality, bisexuality, transgenderism etc.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A person who is or appears homosexual, or who has homosexual qualities. A person of atypical sexuality or sexual identity. General term of abuse, casting aspersions on target's sexuality; compare .

Part of speech: adverb

Definition: queerly

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To render an endeavor or agreement ineffective or null. To reevaluate or reinterpret a work with an eye to sexual orientation and/or to gender, as by applying queer theory.

Example sentence: I'm queer - and queer, to me, is not being stuck in a binary and being kind of fluid.

Homophile

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A homosexual, a gay man or lesbian, one who has a sexual or romantic preference for persons of one's own gender; .

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Homosexual, gay or lesbian, having a sexual or romantic preference for persons of one's own gender; .Of or pertaining to the “homophile movement”, a gay activist movement that used this term in English.

We hope you now know whether to use Queer or Homophile in your sentence.

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