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Maria Kertbeny was a Hungarian writer who is remembered
today mostly for coining the term "homosexual"
as a replacement for the pejorative term "pederast"
that was used in the German and French speaking world of
his time. Though he claimed not to be homosexual
himself, Kertbeny said that his sense of justice made him
cry out against sodomy prosecutions. Kertbeny argued
that homosexuality is an inborn disposition, so laws like Paragraph
175 that punish it are unjust.
Kertbeny's writing career
produced many books, but almost nothing of literary merit. |
