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• MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH
• GAY

ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER

Some lbians may prefer to intify as gay or as gay women. LGBTQIA+ stands for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer (or sometim qutng), tersex, asexual, and others. G (Gay): Gay is ually a term ed to refer to men/men-aligned dividuals who are only attracted to people of the same/siar genr.

However, lbians n also be referred to as gay.

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The e of the term gay beme more popular durg the 1970s.

Today, bisexual and pansexual people sometim e gay to sually refer to themselv when they talk about their siar genr attractn.

The regnn of bisexual dividuals is important, sce there have been perds when people who intify as bi have been misunrstood as beg gay. Other acronym variatns that are sometim ed clu LGBTIQ (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, tersex, and queer) and LGBTQQIP2SAA (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, qutng, tersex, pansexual, two-spir (2S), androgyno, and asexual).

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Where a variety of orientatns and inti had prevly been referred to as "the gay muny" and later "the gay and lbian muny, " the acronym eventually evolved as a way to be more clive of other inti. “Coverage of LGBTQ issu has moved beyond simplistic polil dichotomi and toward more fully realized reprentatns, not only of the diversy of the LGBTQ muny, but also of LGBTQ people’s liv, their fai, and their fundamental cln the fabric of Amerin society, ” explas GLAAD, or the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn.

For example, you wouldn’t say “Ali is LGBTQIA+”—you’d say “Ali is gay.

Even more clive variatns exist, such as LGBTQI2S (which reprents lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, qutng, queer, tersex, and Two-Spir). If you are terted learng more about what terms and phras should be avoid, GLAAD, the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn, has a reference page that offers helpful rmatn on LGBTQ terms as well as rmatn on terms that are specific to the transgenr muny. Rearch suggts that while attus have shifted towards greater acceptance, LGBTQ+ people still face nsirable homophobia and discrimatn.

But the term n sometim seem to imply that there is a sgle, homogeno group when there are actually many dividual muni ma up of diverse dividuals. Gay, Lbian & Straight Edutn Network (GLSEN). Consirg a recent survey by the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn (GLAAD) found that 12 percent of the populatn intifi as LGBTQIA+, 's more ccial than ever to unrstand the termology around this growg muny.

Until somewhat recently, variatns of the term "gay muny" were ed to enpass the entirety of the group that we now refer to as LGBTQIA+. Magaze, the first acronym to take shape the 1990s was "GLBT, " ed to scribe those who intified as eher gay, lbian, bisexual, or transgenr. " This notatn clus space for those intifyg as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer (and some s, "qutng"), tersex, asexual (and sometim "ally"), and the "+" is for a plethora of other orientatns and inti.

Before then, the term "gay" was ed to refer to both men and women, although was more closely associated wh men. Before the latter half of the 19th century, the word "gay" simply referred to someone who was "reee, " "cheerful, " or "bright and showy, " acrdg to The Oxford Dictnary of Difficult Words.

Sce then, the word "gay" has fully replaced the term "homosexual, " which many found to be too clil and was riddled wh stigma. Acrdg to the Universy of Illois, "gay" is still ed to scribe a number of thgs, cludg the LGBTQIA+ muny as a whole, a sgle dividual who do not intify as straight, and men who are attracted to other men a "romantic, erotic and/or emotnal sense.

(And, while this should go whout sayg, the ia that intifyg as bisexual is a "way statn" om straight to gay is an accurate and hurtful stereotype.