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HOW A GAY SLUR BEME A LC PART OF MY INTY
” I gave a pulsory giggle, but that ltle jab would follow me through my adolcence, takg root the back of my a gay Haian Amerin, proud of all facets of my inty, u has many meangs to me. “The evince for u beg ed as a slur, specifilly to sult gay men, was first documented the early 1900s, ” says John Kelly, senr director of edorial at “Around this time, ‘u’ was also ed to refer to both an ‘easy victim’ and a promiscuo woman.
” Though the orig of u meang gay likely om the 19th century Brish unrground queer language Polari, the earlit prted rerd of as a gay sult is om a 1900 New Haven, Connecticut, amic document lled Dialect Not Vol. You n image, through the lens of homophobia, how the word was weaponized agast gay ’s om the pejorative meangs that the word’s age broaned around the 1930s to refer to the mentally ill, beg kd of a tchall term for crazy, along wh other slang like bananas (which also was a slang term for a gay man) and nuts.
The Amerin Psychiatric Associatn didn’t remove the diagnosis of homosexualy om the DSM until 1973, so beg gay was nsired a mental illns until 10 years before my birth. Although my parents didn’t grow up Ameri, they started a fay here around the same time that gay rights were beg a natnal pot of discsn.