Homophile
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The word homophile is an alternative to the word homosexual that emphasizes the emotional component of same-sex love rather than the sexual component. Members of some 1960's precursors the gay liberation movement called themselves "homophiles," though the term predates this period. According to the Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Culture (glbtq), "the homophile movements adopted a strategy in which homosexuals were urged to accommodate themselves as much as possible to the heterosexual norms of society."[1] (http://www.glbtq.com/glossary.php?word=homophile&part=)
Since 1969 the term has since fallen almost completely out of common use, after bitter disputes surrounding the accomodationism of the homophile movement. A reference to a "homophile group" would almost always refer to one of the pre-1969 period.
Notable U.S. homophile groups were the Mattachine Society for men and the Daughters of Bilitis for women.Template:LGBT-stub