Green’s Dictionary of Slang

homosexual.

1933		E.A. Robertson Ordinary Families 271: Round about six, fifteen and twenty are the recognized ‘homo’ ages in women – in men, of course, they come about two years later.
1940		F.S. Fitzgerald ‘Teamed with Genius’ in Pat Hobby Stories (1967) 69: One of them went to jail in a homo raid.
1943		P. Larkin letter 19 Oct. in Thwaite Sel. Letters (1992) 79: I liked Lt Wallace’s poem very much [...] Is he homo?
1953		R. Garland Heart in Exile 127: The biggest enemy of the invert is the feminine man who becomes a homo-Puritan [...] most of the people who are so vehemently anti-queer are people with strong feminine streaks.
1967		F. Harvey Air War – Vietnam 18: This doesn’t include the ‘Benny Boys’ who cater [...] to the homo trade.
1973		L. Bangs in Psychotic Reactions (1988) 143: Pulling homo riffs on Danny Klein, who wears pink jackets.
1985		Tracks (Aus.) Nov. 21: Surf lifesaving clubs with their thinly disguised homo bonds [Moore 1993].
1990		S. Morgan Homeboy 16: The pefect homo companion for a junkie diesel dyke who relaxed listening to CD’s of the Ontario 500.
2005		A. Lovejoy Acid Alex 127: There were a lot of homo things that I didn’t know about Martin.
2008		J. Lansdale Leather Maiden 82: ‘Anyone would rather drive to Texas than fuck in Oklahoma [...] ’ ‘That’s kind of homo,’ Conchita said.
2019		D. Winslow Border [ebook] No ‘baseball’ — homo shit.
2023		R. Milward Man-Eating Typewriter 144: There was a homo watering-hole [...] The Wincing Pillowbiter.