Abstract
ABSTRACT Printed use of the term heterosexuality, as juxtaposed to homosexuality, may be dated to 1871. The German noun pairs Heterosexualität/Homosexualität and adjective pair heterosexuelle/homosexuelle, appeared in two 1871 nonfiction works by hack writer Daniel von Kászony (1813–1886), picking up on Károly Mária Kertbeny’s terminology. Kertbeny juxtaposed heterosexual–homosexual in 1868 correspondence but refrained from using the former term in his two famed 1869 open letters to repeal Prussian anti-sodomy legislation. Printed use of the term homosexual may be dated to 1868 or early 1869, by a pseudonymous author that is almost certainly Kászony.
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