homohysteric
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From homo- (“pertaining to homosexuality”) + hysteric.
Adjective[edit]
homohysteric (comparative more homohysteric, superlative most homohysteric)
- Pertaining to or involving homohysteria ("A cultural aversion to being perceived as homosexual").
- 2009, Eric Anderson, Inclusive Masculinity: The Changing Nature of Masculinities, London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 151:
- It seems that whereas men's publicly perceived sexual identities were once easily jeopardized in a homohysteric culture, today men maintain more freedom to explore certain forms of same-sex sexual behaviors without threat to their publicly perceived heterosexual identities.