Another thought is describing the word as a neologism superfluous perhaps I ve always been an advocate of approaching writing a Wikipedia article as if everything you re writing about happened a thousand years ago and is ancient history because it seems to me that s the proper style for an encyclopaedia which is intended to be timeless and authoritative Neologism is an inescapably relative word all words are neologisms looked at from one perspective in time soon after they are invented All the words Shakespeare invented would be neologisms if you lived in 1630 for instance I sincerely hope this page will be around in some form in another hundred years at which point homophobia will no longer be a neologism I think it s probably sufficient simply to say when and by whom the term was coined Comments AW