homophile in English

noun
1
a homosexual man or woman.
Returning to the 1960s, ‘gay’ quickly rose in popularity, supplanting the more plodding labels ‘homosexual’ (which had a medical connotation), and ‘ homophile ’ (which sounded like pedophile.)
adjective
1
of or relating to homosexuals.
By then I'd taken courses in literature and language - from Latin drama to modern poetry, from restoration drama to homophile studies.

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