Homophile

The word homophile or homophilia refers to a range of positive attitudes and feelings toward homosexuality or towards homosexual individuals and their orientation. It is an exact opposite term for homophobia. People who advocate for or are supporters of the interests, civil rights, and welfare of homosexuals are also at times referred as homophilic, a term which is not in current-use in the 21st century. Later the usage of the term also came to refer to an individual who accepts homosexuals, a supporter of certain rights of homosexuals, one who has positive thoughts about homosexuality, or an advocate of its social acceptance.

The use of the word homophile began to disappear with the emergence of the gay liberation movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s, replaced by a new set of terminology which provides a much clearer identity such as gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender, and in the 1990s terms like queer came along and then collectively the LGBTQ tag become popularized. In the present day it is LGBTQIA, still it is all considered under the umbrella term "Homophilia".