TY - JOUR T1 - Talking about homosexuality: lessons learned from 1949 JF - Sexually Transmitted Infections JO - Sex Transm Infect SP - 347 LP - 347 DO - 10.1136/sextrans-2016-053016 VL - 93 IS - 5 AU - Catherine H Mercer AU - Anne M Johnson Y1 - 2017/08/01 UR - http://sti.bmj.com/content/93/5/347.abstract N2 - ‘The problem of the homosexual with venereal disease’ by F G MacDonald,1 a venereologist at London's Queen Mary's Hospital, was published in 1949 in the British Journal of Venereal Diseases, the forerunner to Sexually Transmitted Infections. While the language MacDonald used to describe same-sex behaviour, including ‘abnormality’, ‘troubles’, ‘the condition’, is a far cry from that which we are now familiar with, … ER -