Homintern
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Homintern was a reference to a global community of homosexuals with common interests. During the times of Lavender scare in the United States, attempts were made to link Communism and homosexuality, and the term "Homintern" was a derogatory appellation to the allegedly subversive nature of this community.
The word is a play on the word "Comintern," the short name of the Communist International.
An early written reference to the term is from 1937, when the classical scholar Maurice Bowra referred to himself as a member of the Homintern. However, there are competing claims about who coined the term.{{efn|{{cquote|[1930s?] "The new literary fashion then in the ascendant dominated by what Jocelyn Brooke (himself homosexual, but detached from 'committed' writing) used to call The Homintern, was unsympathetic to me; at the same time the fourth novel on which I was now at work - to have the title Agents and Patients - did not entirely satisfy my own standards in breaking fresh ground."- Anthony Powell (1981)
Michael S. Sherry used the term hominterm discourse "for the untidy bundle of ideas and accusations about the gay creative presence".
See also
- Association of Communism with homosexuality by anti-Communists
- Lavender scare
- Homosexual agenda
- Homosexual recruitment
