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a term preferred by some writers in preference to using “h-m-s-xual” as a noun.

in a newsmagazine cover article on gore vidal in the late 1970s, the celebrated author and essayist explained that, since “h-m-s-xual” is used as an adjective (“h-m-s-xual fantasy”), the noun form needed something more, well, distinctive and substantive: he used “h-m-s-xualist” to describe someone who is gay in practice, or as a state of being.

one doesn’t argue lightly with gore vidal but there are precedents either way in forming nouns. “alcoholic drink” / “joe’s an alcoholic,” uses “alcoholic” first as an adjective, then as a noun. similarly, “green politics” / “cary has become a green.”

otoh a medical pract-tioner of psychiatry is not a “psychiatric” (better used as an adjective = “psychiatric evaluation”), but a “psychiatrist,” a description of a person, not a field. one who enjoys sensual things is a “sensualist” but has an appreciation of the sensual.

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“john is an out-of-the-closet h-m-s-xual”; or
“john is an out-of-the-closet h-m-s-xualist.”

but also: “john is a h-m-s-xual,” or

“john is h-m-s-xual.” — but not:
“john is h-m-s-xualist.”

it is much to be hoped that the definitions above of “same-s-x love” or “pract-tioner of same-s-x love” will stand, despite the fact that many right-wingers use it almost as a slur (it can get clinical) and avoid “gay” as a neologism. don’t think it isn’t political, either.

gay: current idiom in casual speech would have it
“john is gay.” note that “a gay” commodifies john just a little.

see gay.

“john’s love life has been exclusively h-m-s-xual since 1993.”

“john has an active h-m-s-xual love life.”

“john is the kind of h-m-s-xualist other h-m-s-xualists can be proud of.”
gay or queer. as popularized by daffyd from little britain
daffyd is a h-m-s-xualist and a gayer.
the cool way of saying h-m-s-xual.
“your mom must be a h-m-s-xualist”
the term h-m-s-xualist, as popularised by matt lucas’s character daffyd thomas, is a useful one to mean those active h-m-s-xuals who are trying to make it compulsory for all. the term could extend to those try to force their own ideas on supposed equality for those of peculiar s-xuality. it definitely includes those types who consider their same s-x proclivities to be far superior to heteros-xuals.
as an active h-m-s-xualist i am supporting the rights of men to marry each other and their absolute right for these relationships to produce children just as heteros-xual marriage does. governments should pay for all necessary medical expenditure to achieve this outcome.