Homomania  

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1. Homosexuality, regarded as a mental disorder.
   • 1891, The Post-Graduate and Wooster Quarterly (volume 5), page 18:

     The civil and industrial life is too intensely masculine to possess perfect health, and its worst symptom is homomania, in which play selfishness, cunning, and intrigue. Its cure is aided by a more general diffusion of woman's spirit of mercy, love and intuitive honesty; and that spirit is a better medium also for the introduction into the industrial system and the legislature of the spirit of benevolence as formulated by the commandments of the love we have already considered.

2. Enthusiastic support for homosexuality.
   • 2007, Renate Günther, ‎Wendy Michallat, Lesbian Inscriptions in Francophone Society and Culture, page 85:

     After decades when homosexuality was either hidden or the subject of medical and psychiatric television reporting, French gays and lesbians started to appear on various sorts of television programmes after 1999. From 2000 onwards, gay and lesbian couples were regular guests on many TV shows that addressed topics characterised as 'marital issues', such as monogamy, fidelity and weight problems. Both commercial and public channels were affected by this 'homomania'

   • 2007, William D. Gairdner, The War Against the Family:

     If you say something negative about homosexuals, you will be labelled an intolerant "homophobic." But if you say something positive (like "I think they're fine. There's nothing wrong with them"), you are deemed neutral. Disapproval is intolerant, while approval is neutral? See what I mean? Approval ought to mean homomania, a promoter of homosexuality.