Homosexual: Outdated clinical term considered derogatory and offensive by many gay people. Because of the clinical history of the word “homosexual,” it has been adopted by anti-gay extremists to suggest that lesbians and gay men are somehow diseased or psychologically/emotionally disordered – notions discredited by both the American Psychological Association and the American Psychiatric Association in the 1970s.
If you use this term, ie, "I'm working on a homosexual wedding", you may not necessarily offend someone but it's also a very dated term.
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