uranist

plural uranists

1. archaicA homosexual.

   I discussed Soviet movies with expatriates. I sat with uranists in the Deux Magots. I published tortuous essays in obscure journals.

   1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

   1 more example

   Though harmless and gentle he would have been described as a Greek or a Uranist by the exquisites of Cambridge, or as a Nancy Dawson by everyone else.

   1974, Michael Tyler-Whittle, Bertie, page 250