Beg Called “It” | Everyone Is Gay

Contents:

• GAY CALLED IT'S FOR YOU
• THE SOLUTN TO "GAY" INSULTS: FREEDOM OF SPEECH
• 34 OF THE BT RPONS WHEN SOMEONE ASSUM AND CALLS YOU GAY
• HOW TO KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY
• HOW TO ACCEPT THAT YOU ARE GAY

GAY CALLED IT'S FOR YOU

Pri, formerly known as Gay Pri, is a regnn of LGBTQ inty, affirmatn of equal rights, and celebratn of visibily, digny, and diversy the LGBTQ muny. Why gay or lbian and not “homosexual”?

THE SOLUTN TO "GAY" INSULTS: FREEDOM OF SPEECH

While the word homosexual is still ocsnally ed some ntexts, you might have noticed that don’t make an appearance any versn of the LGBTQ acronym. As our age note on the term stat, “up until 1973, homosexualy was listed The Diagnostic and Statistil Manual of Mental Disorrs (DSM), psychiatry’s standard reference on the classifitn of mental illns. People aware of this former tegorizatn feel that the term homosexual still rri a negative nnotatn.

” In fact, the term homosexual was liberately rejected by early gay rights activists bee, acrdg to The New York Tim, “they did not want to be intified as exclively sexual begs.

34 OF THE BT RPONS WHEN SOMEONE ASSUM AND CALLS YOU GAY

For the and other reasons, the term homosexual is wily nsired disparagg and offensive. Instead, the terms gay and lbian are generally preferred.

Gay, on the other hand, n be ed to scribe a person of any genr who experienc same-sex attractn, although is most often ed to scribe a man who is attracted to men.

HOW TO KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY

The days, the term homosexual is typilly limed to medil ntexts, if ed at all. On June 28, 1969, the New York Cy police raid the Stonewall Inn, a bar equented by gay and genr-nonnformg people (at a time when terms like LGBTQ didn’t yet exist). They attempted to arrt the gay and trans bar patrons, which started a seri of protts agast the police.

Partially rponse to Stonewall, 1970, queer activists New York Cy anized a march to Central Park wh the theme “Gay Pri. Trans activist Slyvia Rivera particular advoted for the more forceful slogan “Gay power. The term queer, like the term homosexual, has a b of a troubled history.

However, unlike homosexual, has been wily reappropriated by the LGBTQ muny as a label.

HOW TO ACCEPT THAT YOU ARE GAY

Queer lerally means “strange or odd om a nventnal viewpot, ” and by at least by the late 1800s, queer was ployed as a rogatory term for an effemate or gay man.