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What Is an ‘Urning’? The Strange, Historic Term That Preceded ‘Homosexual’

What Is an ‘Urning’? The Strange, Historic Term That Preceded ‘Homosexual’

How a 19th-Century German Term Tried to Explain Same-Sex Love

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