Comment on this story</tle><path d="M14 14V2H2v9.47h8.18L12.43 13ZM3 10.52V3h10v9.23l-2.5-1.66Z"></path></svg></button><span aria-hidn="te" class="wpds-c-fBEbFG">Comment</span><span class="wpds-c-fOvfhP wpds-c-fOvfhP-kshkDy-isCommentType-te none" aria-hidn="te"><span class="ment-unt font-xxxxs sc-ral-unt"><span></span></span></span></div></div></div></div></div><div class="teaser-ntent grid-center"><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Languag around the world are changg rapidly to bee more clive of LGBTQ+ inti.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">But for people who e Amerin Sign Language, fdg a visual and nceptual way to reprent an ner inty n be plited, and some s, there’s still not a clear nsens on which sign is bt.</p></div></div><div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“Wh signs related to inty, ’s personal, and ’s hard to fd one sign that works for everyone,” said Julie A. Hochgang, a Deaf lguist and profsor at Gallt Universy Northeast Washgton.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">The Washgton Post asked several members of the Deaf queer muny to monstrate how ASL is evolvg.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p><span class="wpds-c-gnhuPA wpds-c-gnhuPA-hqeSyH-variant-terstial wpds-c-gnhuPA-iPJLV-css hi-for-prt"><a data-qa="terstial-lk" href=">A gui to how genr-ntral language is velopg around the world</a></span></p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><h3 data-qa="article-hear" class=" pb-sm pt-md" id="YBQRUIYAXZDLVNJTU7XZXRWLOY"><div>Fdg the right sign for ‘queer’</div></h3></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Consir the word “queer.” In ASL, there are at least three ways to sign . One popular sign for “queer” the sign for “rabow,” reference to the rabow Pri flag.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-vio" data-ttid="article-vio" class="ma-to" style="max-width:300px"><div><figure class="mb-md mr-to-ns ml-to-ns hi-for-prt flex flex-lumn ems-center ml-neg-gutter mr-neg-gutter"><div class="w-100 aspect-ctom" style="background-posn:center;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-lor:rgb(245, 245, 245);background-image:url();background-size:nta;--aspect-height:1.7777777777777777;--aspect-width:1"></div><figptn><div class="mt-xs mr-to-ns ml-to-ns left font--subhead font-xxxs gray-dark square-vertil-vio" data-qa="vio-ptn">Cecilia Ggan signs a versn of “queer” ASL. (Vio: The Washgton Post)</div></figptn></figure></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">But some people feel the sign isn’t clive enough, bee the rabow don’t clu lors like pk, light blue or whe, which are found on the transgenr Pri flag. Others oppose the rabow bee they say portrays an ialized experience of beg queer.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“Usg the rabow mak everythg seem happy, but everythg isn’t all perfect,” said Oliver Stabbe, 27, who is trans, hard of hearg and liv Oakland, Calif. “Queer people are still beg opprsed.”</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">A send sign for queer is adapted om Japane Sign Language. It’s a fluid motn that begs wh an L hand shape and ends the letter Q to suggt that there’s an alphabet of inti between the two letters.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-vio" data-ttid="article-vio" class="ma-to" style="max-width:300px"><div><figure class="mb-md mr-to-ns ml-to-ns hi-for-prt flex flex-lumn ems-center ml-neg-gutter mr-neg-gutter"><div class="w-100 aspect-ctom" style="background-posn:center;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-lor:rgb(245, 245, 245);background-image:url();background-size:nta;--aspect-height:1.7777777777777777;--aspect-width:1"></div><figptn><div class="mt-xs mr-to-ns ml-to-ns left font--subhead font-xxxs gray-dark square-vertil-vio" data-qa="vio-ptn">Cecilia Ggan signs a versn of “queer” ASL. (Vio: The Washgton Post)</div></figptn></figure></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Cecilia Ggan, 29, a Deaf, trans and nonbary person livg the D.C. area, prefers this sign, bee feels more clive. “It symboliz that the acronym n ntue. Wherever you fall on this spectm, this sign will clu you,” they said.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">But many Deaf queer people prefer to e the ASL alphabet to spell Q-U-E-E-R bee they feel the other signs don’t fully reprent them. The double “e” the word mak simple to fgerspell.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-vio" data-ttid="article-vio" class="ma-to" style="max-width:300px"><div><figure class="mb-md mr-to-ns ml-to-ns hi-for-prt flex flex-lumn ems-center ml-neg-gutter mr-neg-gutter"><div class="w-100 aspect-ctom" style="background-posn:center;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-lor:rgb(245, 245, 245);background-image:url();background-size:nta;--aspect-height:1.7777777777777777;--aspect-width:1"></div><figptn><div class="mt-xs mr-to-ns ml-to-ns left font--subhead font-xxxs gray-dark square-vertil-vio" data-qa="vio-ptn">Cecilia Ggan fgerspells “queer” ASL. (Vio: The Washgton Post)</div></figptn></figure></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><h3 data-qa="article-hear" class=" pb-sm pt-md" id="6VVPCO3T7ZE6BD272LQNIKPKM4"><div>The challenge of creatg a new sign</div></h3></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">While spoken and wrten languag n spread swiftly through a number of formats, ASL has typilly spread through face-to-face teractns and n’t be easily shared by wrten word, so n take longer for nsens to form around new signs.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">For much of ASL’s history, those who have had the most power to dissemate signs have been straight, Whe, cisgenr people, acrdg to Deidra Pelletier, vice print of the Rabow Alliance of the Deaf.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“In the past, much of the queer muny was closeted, so they didn’t really have the chance to discs or analyze signs large groups wh straight people,” she said.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">The rise of vio-based social media is allowg ASL to spread more rapidly and is empowerg the Deaf queer muny to exert more fluence over Amerin Sign Language.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">But fdg an inic or metaphoril way to reprent some inti has proven to be difficult, and many signs are still fgerspelled. Long words require xtery and aren’t always easy to cipher.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">For stance, “bisexual” is an eight-letter word that n be ted to fgerspell. As a rult, Deaf people typilly spell out the abbreviatn “Bi,” stead. There have been attempts to e up wh a more nceptual sign for “bisexual,” but none have ught on wily.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-vio" data-ttid="article-vio" class="ma-to" style="max-width:300px"><div><figure class="mb-md mr-to-ns ml-to-ns hi-for-prt flex flex-lumn ems-center ml-neg-gutter mr-neg-gutter"><div class="w-100 aspect-ctom" style="background-posn:center;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-lor:rgb(245, 245, 245);background-image:url();background-size:nta;--aspect-height:1.7777777777777777;--aspect-width:1"></div><figptn><div class="mt-xs mr-to-ns ml-to-ns left font--subhead font-xxxs gray-dark square-vertil-vio" data-qa="vio-ptn">Cldia Grdano fgerspells “bi” ASL. (Vio: The Washgton Post)</div></figptn></figure></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><h3 data-qa="article-hear" class=" pb-sm pt-md" id="ZMPODULAORGWNCKJP7EYQHW2KU"><div>Fdg a sign for nonbary</div></h3></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Other inti — nonbary, asexual or pansexual — are also challengg to spell ASL But abbreviatns don’t always work. For stance, “nonbary” n’t be shortened to “N-B,” bee that abbreviatn is ed some muni to refer to non-Black people.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-vio" data-ttid="article-vio" class="ma-to" style="max-width:300px"><div><figure class="mb-md mr-to-ns ml-to-ns hi-for-prt flex flex-lumn ems-center ml-neg-gutter mr-neg-gutter"><div class="w-100 aspect-ctom" style="background-posn:center;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-lor:rgb(245, 245, 245);background-image:url();background-size:nta;--aspect-height:1.7777777777777777;--aspect-width:1"></div><figptn><div class="mt-xs mr-to-ns ml-to-ns left font--subhead font-xxxs gray-dark square-vertil-vio" data-qa="vio-ptn">Jerr Gee fgerspells “nonbary” ASL. (Vio: The Washgton Post)</div></figptn></figure></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">A few years ago, Deaf nonbary people planned a virtual town hall to e up wh a new sign for nonbary, acrdg to Bee Gehman, who found <a href=" target=_blank>Jooux</a>, a Deaf sexual wellns center. But, the meetg never happened bee of a lack of rourc and support.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“It’s a challenge to e up wh a new sign bee we’re nstantly tryg to survive this opprsive society as a Deaf, disabled and queer person,”<b> </b>said Gehman, who intifi as nonbary and queer.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Some, like Jerr Gee, a 33-year old Deaf nonbary person livg D.C., don’t md spellg out the full word, bee they view as an tnal opportuny.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“Givg people accs to the English word spellg allows them to Google and learn more about ,” Gee said.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><h3 data-qa="article-hear" class=" pb-sm pt-md" id="NRGA2P7J5NDEBME7BDIZTS724Y"><div>A sign for ‘transgenr’ has been slow to spread</div></h3></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">For years, a monly ed sign to scribe transgenr people bed the sign for “sex” and the motn for “change.” The sign now is nsired offensive and is ak to g the outdated English word “transsexual.”</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-vio" data-ttid="article-vio" class="ma-to" style="max-width:300px"><div><figure class="mb-md mr-to-ns ml-to-ns hi-for-prt flex flex-lumn ems-center ml-neg-gutter mr-neg-gutter"><div class="w-100 aspect-ctom" style="background-posn:center;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-lor:rgb(245, 245, 245);background-image:url();background-size:nta;--aspect-height:1.7777777777777777;--aspect-width:1"></div><figptn><div class="mt-xs mr-to-ns ml-to-ns left font--subhead font-xxxs gray-dark square-vertil-vio" data-qa="vio-ptn">Man Jericho signs an outdated versn of “trans” ASL. (Vio: The Washgton Post)</div></figptn></figure></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">A group of Deaf trans people at a 2003 nference Florida<b> </b>agreed on a new sign that evok the sign for “betiful” and is placed on the cht, where the sign for “myself” is also placed. The sign n be terpreted a variety of ways, but is ultimately about havg a strong ner inty, said Alex Leffers, a Deaf trans man who took part the cisn to choose this sign.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“It don’t matter what you look like, or how you reprent yourself, ’s about who you are on the si,” he said. “That inty is protected; n’t be taken om you.”</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-vio" data-ttid="article-vio" class="ma-to" style="max-width:300px"><div><figure class="mb-md mr-to-ns ml-to-ns hi-for-prt flex flex-lumn ems-center ml-neg-gutter mr-neg-gutter"><div class="w-100 aspect-ctom" style="background-posn:center;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-lor:rgb(245, 245, 245);background-image:url();background-size:nta;--aspect-height:1.7777777777777777;--aspect-width:1"></div><figptn><div class="mt-xs mr-to-ns ml-to-ns left font--subhead font-xxxs gray-dark square-vertil-vio" data-qa="vio-ptn">Man Jericho signs “trans” ASL. (Vio: The Washgton Post)</div></figptn></figure></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Though the cisn to e this sign was ma two s ago, some Deaf trans people say many terpreters still don’t know the sign.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><div id="gift-share-le" data-ttid="gift-share-le" class="PJLV PJLV-ilotWTr-css hi-for-prt"><button aria-haspopup="dialog" aria-expand="false" aria-ntrols="gift-share-drawer" role="button" tabx="0" aria-label="Share this article" id="gift-share-drawer-ntrol-le" data-ttid="gift-share-drawer-ntrol-le" class="wpds-c-PJLV wpds-c-gsmDXe wpds-c-gsmDXe-goNocI-placement-Inle foc-highlight"><div data-ttid="gift-share-terstial-trigger" class="wpds-c-kPqOkS wpds-c-kPqOkS-jtSXsT-hasSubsText-false"><span class="wpds-c-hBJqc"><span class="wpds-c-dzSncg">Share this article</span></span><span class="wpds-c-eCvK"><span class="wpds-c-enedHQ wpds-c-enedHQ-cCdK-isShown-false">Share</span><svg xmlns=" fill="currentColor" viewBox="0 0 16 16" aria-hidn="te" focable="false" role="img" class="wpds-c-fBqPWp wpds-c-fDHGth"><path fill="currentColor" d="M8 .6v3.8h.1c-4.4 0-7.3 4.5-6.9 8.8.1.8.2 1.2.2 1.2l.2 1 .4-1.3c.8-2 2-4 6.2-3.9H8v4l7-6.9L8 .6Zm1 11.3V9.3h-.9c-3 0-4.8.5-6.2 2.9.5-3.3 2.7-6.8 6.2-6.8H9V3l4.5 4.4L9 11.9Z"></path></svg></span></div></button></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Leffers, a munitns manager at Gallt Universy, said the hope is for signs related to queer inti to be clud more tnal curriculums and terpretg programs.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Man Jericho, a 32-year-old transgenr Deaf person, said that while he knew the English word for “trans,” he didn’t learn the ASL sign for his inty until he attend Gallt.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><h3 data-qa="article-hear" class=" pb-sm pt-md" id="WF4ZIIBRAZGNHO76JR54Y5GAIU"><div>Fdg an clive sign for drag</div></h3></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Other signs related to queer inty are only now startg to spread more wily.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">For example, drag shows have tradnally been accsible for many Deaf people bee they lacked ptns or terpreters. But as more ASL terpreters have been provid at drag events, signs related to drag have spread.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">And the rise of Deaf drag performers like Alvaro Garcia, 33 and Jimmy Lar, 32, of Denver, has raised awarens about drag the Deaf muny. The duo perform as Deafi Drag on social media, and many of their vios feature them dog more visually based acts, like sks or tellg stori ASL.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">One sign for “drag queen” suggts a bold wig worn by many performers, bed wh the sign for “queen,” which a “Q” hand shape and outl a sash.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-vio" data-ttid="article-vio" class="ma-to" style="max-width:300px"><div><figure class="mb-md mr-to-ns ml-to-ns hi-for-prt flex flex-lumn ems-center ml-neg-gutter mr-neg-gutter"><div class="w-100 aspect-ctom" style="background-posn:center;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-lor:rgb(245, 245, 245);background-image:url();background-size:nta;--aspect-height:1.7777777777777777;--aspect-width:1"></div><figptn><div class="mt-xs mr-to-ns ml-to-ns left font--subhead font-xxxs gray-dark square-vertil-vio" data-qa="vio-ptn">Miss Zyafirah, whose real name is Randall “Rexy” Anrson, signs a versn of “drag queen” ASL. (Vio: The Washgton Post)</div></figptn></figure></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Another variatn on “queen” suggts the placement of a crown.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-vio" data-ttid="article-vio" class="ma-to" style="max-width:300px"><div><figure class="mb-md mr-to-ns ml-to-ns hi-for-prt flex flex-lumn ems-center ml-neg-gutter mr-neg-gutter"><div class="w-100 aspect-ctom" style="background-posn:center;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-lor:rgb(245, 245, 245);background-image:url();background-size:nta;--aspect-height:1.7777777777777777;--aspect-width:1"></div><figptn><div class="mt-xs mr-to-ns ml-to-ns left font--subhead font-xxxs gray-dark square-vertil-vio" data-qa="vio-ptn">Miss Zyafirah, whose real name is Randall “Rexy” Anrson signs a versn of “queen” ASL. (Vio: The Washgton Post)</div></figptn></figure></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Leffers, the trans man who helped choose the new sign for “trans,” said he also helped e up wh a sign for “drag kg,” a performer who personifi male genr stereotyp. This sign, which is only startg to spread, emulat twirlg a mtache, and n be bed wh the sign for “kg,” which a “K” hand shape to outle a sash.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-vio" data-ttid="article-vio" class="ma-to" style="max-width:300px"><div><figure class="mb-md mr-to-ns ml-to-ns hi-for-prt flex flex-lumn ems-center ml-neg-gutter mr-neg-gutter"><div class="w-100 aspect-ctom" style="background-posn:center;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-lor:rgb(245, 245, 245);background-image:url();background-size:nta;--aspect-height:1.7777777777777777;--aspect-width:1"></div><figptn><div class="mt-xs mr-to-ns ml-to-ns left font--subhead font-xxxs gray-dark square-vertil-vio" data-qa="vio-ptn">Miss Zyafirah, whose real name is Randall “Rexy” Anrson, signs a versn of “drag kg” ASL. (Vio: The Washgton Post)</div></figptn></figure></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Lillouie Barrs, owner of a Deaf drag anizatn Portland, Ore., lled Handsync, didn’t learn the sign for “drag kg” until 2019. But for nonbary drag performers, neher the sign for “drag queen” or “drag kg” seem to f, he said.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“It’s plited. We haven’t nfirmed an appropriate sign for the general act of drag self,” he said. “We really need to fd one good sign for jt the word “drag.'”</p></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><h3 data-qa="article-hear" class=" pb-sm pt-md" id="DSPQAKLDTFHUBFSKEOL75SUXIQ"><div>Why some inty signs n offend</div></h3></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">In ASL, signs relatg to women, such as “sister” or “mother,” are tradnally placed on the lower half of the face, whereas signs relatg to men are typilly placed on the upper half of the face.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">That’s why some people don’t like the tradnal sign for “gay,” which plac a “G” hand shape at the ch.<b> </b>They<b> </b>believe this<b> </b>suggts a feme sign.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-vio" data-ttid="article-vio" class="ma-to" style="max-width:300px"><div><figure class="mb-md mr-to-ns ml-to-ns hi-for-prt flex flex-lumn ems-center ml-neg-gutter mr-neg-gutter"><div class="w-100 aspect-ctom" style="background-posn:center;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-lor:rgb(245, 245, 245);background-image:url();background-size:nta;--aspect-height:1.7777777777777777;--aspect-width:1"></div><figptn><div class="mt-xs mr-to-ns ml-to-ns left font--subhead font-xxxs gray-dark square-vertil-vio" data-qa="vio-ptn">Sean Norman signs a versn of “gay” ASL. (Vio: The Washgton Post)</div></figptn></figure></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Gehman, a certified sexualy tor, said that they fgerspell the word.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-vio" data-ttid="article-vio" class="ma-to" style="max-width:300px"><div><figure class="mb-md mr-to-ns ml-to-ns hi-for-prt flex flex-lumn ems-center ml-neg-gutter mr-neg-gutter"><div class="w-100 aspect-ctom" style="background-posn:center;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-lor:rgb(245, 245, 245);background-image:url();background-size:nta;--aspect-height:1.7777777777777777;--aspect-width:1"></div><figptn><div class="mt-xs mr-to-ns ml-to-ns left font--subhead font-xxxs gray-dark square-vertil-vio" data-qa="vio-ptn">Sean Norman fgerspells “gay” ASL. (Vio: The Washgton Post)</div></figptn></figure></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Ernt Willman, 30, of Arizona, said that his Deaf gay muny, there’s a lot of bate about which sign is bt. Some feel that the non-spelled sign rri stigma, but others feel they are reclaimg the sign, he said.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“Often the gay Deaf muny, would be acceptable to e the old sign for gay, but I enurage other people to e the spelled-out word,” Willman said.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Sean Norman, a 37-year-old Deaf gay man livg D.C. prefers to e the tradnal sign.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“I feel like ’s a source of pri now,” he said. “A sign isn’t herently negative.”</p></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><h3 data-qa="article-hear" class=" pb-sm pt-md" id="LAJYUGMBMRB27KXVXB4ZQSC4TU"><div>A send sign for ‘lbian’</div></h3></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">A siar bate is also playg out Deaf lbian muni. An olr sign for “lbian” volved puttg an “L” on the ch.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-vio" data-ttid="article-vio" class="ma-to" style="max-width:300px"><div><figure class="mb-md mr-to-ns ml-to-ns hi-for-prt flex flex-lumn ems-center ml-neg-gutter mr-neg-gutter"><div class="w-100 aspect-ctom" style="background-posn:center;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-lor:rgb(245, 245, 245);background-image:url();background-size:nta;--aspect-height:1.7777777777777777;--aspect-width:1"></div><figptn><div class="mt-xs mr-to-ns ml-to-ns left font--subhead font-xxxs gray-dark square-vertil-vio" data-qa="vio-ptn">Kisha Hopwood signs a versn of “lbian” ASL. (Vio: The Washgton Post)</div></figptn></figure></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Some people said the sign rembled the sign for “vaga,” said MJ Bienvenu, 70, a Deaf lbian woman livg At. She and many others have started g a newer sign for “lbian” that mov the posn of the hand slightly so that a person taps their ch wh their x fger. “The new sign is an improvement,” Bienvenu said.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-vio" data-ttid="article-vio" class="ma-to" style="max-width:300px"><div><figure class="mb-md mr-to-ns ml-to-ns hi-for-prt flex flex-lumn ems-center ml-neg-gutter mr-neg-gutter"><div class="w-100 aspect-ctom" style="background-posn:center;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-lor:rgb(245, 245, 245);background-image:url();background-size:nta;--aspect-height:1.7777777777777777;--aspect-width:1"></div><figptn><div class="mt-xs mr-to-ns ml-to-ns left font--subhead font-xxxs gray-dark square-vertil-vio" data-qa="vio-ptn">Kisha Hopwood signs a versn of “lbian” ASL. (Vio: The Washgton Post)</div></figptn></figure></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">But for other Deaf lbian women, like Kisha Hopwood, 41, of Hanover, Md., the olr sign is a source of pri.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">The origal sign “shows that I’m proud of who I am,” she said. “Movg to the si feels like you’re tryg to obscure the sign slightly or make seem more civil.”</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">The variatn how people choose to sign different inti may seem nfg to some, but Stabbe se as a natural rult of the fact that Deaf queer people have diverse experienc.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“There is no one sgular way to be Deaf nor is there a sgular way to be LGBTQIA+,” he said. “Language is an extensn of who we are and a means for to take pri ourselv.”</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><h4 data-qa="article-hear" class=" pb-sm pt-md" id="JEPEPSLEV5CSHAZMVJZZSNL6FM"><div>About this story</div></h4></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Reportg by Amanda Morris; vio by Alexa Juliana Ard; illtratns by Anna Lefkowz; py edg by Melissa Ngo.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center 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HOW TO SIGN ‘GAY’ OR ‘QUEER’? AMERIN SIGN LANGUAGE ERS DON’T AGREE.

Jacksonville Jaguars associate strength ach Kev Maxen is believed to be the first openly gay male ach major North Amerin men's sports after g out publicly an terview wh Outsports. * deaf gay news *

'”Why some inty signs n offendIn ASL, signs relatg to women, such as “sister” or “mother, ” are tradnally placed on the lower half of the face, whereas signs relatg to men are typilly placed on the upper half of the ’s why some people don’t like the tradnal sign for “gay, ” which plac a “G” hand shape at the ch.

JAGUARS’ KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY US MEN’S PRO SPORTS

Kev Maxen is now the first openly gay male ach the NFL. * deaf gay news *

They believe this suggts a feme Norman signs a versn of “gay” ASL. (Vio: The Washgton Post)Gehman, a certified sexualy tor, said that they fgerspell the Norman fgerspells “gay” ASL.

(Vio: The Washgton Post)Ernt Willman, 30, of Arizona, said that his Deaf gay muny, there’s a lot of bate about which sign is bt. “Often the gay Deaf muny, would be acceptable to e the old sign for gay, but I enurage other people to e the spelled-out word, ” Willman Norman, a 37-year-old Deaf gay man livg D.

In the early hours of June 28th, 1969, police raid the Stonewall Inn, a gay club Greenwich Village of New York Cy.

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

Wh 6 months, the movement was anized to a full-fledged polil mpaign that aimed to promote rights for gays and lbians. One year later, bisexual activist Brenda Howard, otherwise known as “The Mother of Pri,” anized the first Gay Pri Week and the Christopher Street Liberatn Day para. Jacksonville Jaguars associate strength ach Kev Maxen is believed to be the first openly gay male ach major North Amerin men's sports after g out publicly an terview wh Outsports.

”Maxen is believed to be the first openly gay male ach the NFL and all of major Amerin men's pro sports, acrdg to Outsports.

" San Francis 49ers assistant Katie Sowers, a pneer among female ach the NFL, me out as the the league's first openly gay ach 2017, acrdg to Outsports.

WH 'THIS CLOSE,' JOSH FELDMAN PUTS DEAF, GAY LIV IN THE SPOTLIGHT

He add that he reached out last year for advice on g out om former Las Vegas Rairs lebacker Carl Nassib, who beme the first active openly gay player NFL history 2021. Jt a few s ago, LGBTQ+ (Lbian, Gay, Bi, Trans, and Queer) muni uld not live as openly as they do today whout fear of harassment. Be sure to support one another by beg rpectful by beg anti-racist, anti-transphobic, anti-homophobic, and anti-bullyg.

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR SECTN

Wh 6 months, the movement was anized to a full-fledged polil mpaign that aimed to promote rights for gay and lbian people. One year later, bisexual activist Brenda Howard, otherwise known as “The Mother of Pri, ” anized the first Gay Pri Week and the Christopher Street Liberatn Day para. Durg this month, we also regnize the historic impacts that lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr dividuals have ma lolly, natnally, and ternatnally.

Vcent and the Grenad, where gay sex is still homelsns to ongog physil and verbal abe, the gay muny the small natn of some 100, 000 people says is unr nstant threat. While rarely voked, the rights group and a lol activist said the laws help legimize hostily and abe agast gay people.

JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH AND NDNG ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

”In July 2019, two gay men om St. Vcent who are livg abroad filed a se to challenge lol laws crimalizg gay sex that activists say should be stck down. ”Human Rights Watch terviewed more than 20 members of the island’s LGBTQ muny who shared their stori but were not intified to protect them, notg that lol police are often openly discrimatory toward gay people who seek help.

GAY PARTI & EVENTS

One gay man relled how his classmat beat him and broke his arm. Several reported that their fai are homophobic and physilly and verbally abed them, g them to bee homels and promptg some to nsir suici. Many also stggle to fd jobs amid a high unemployment rate and said they face discrimatn, cludg a 19-year-old gay man who said he has rorted to beggg: “Sometim I am so hungry.

It is hard for me as a gay this untry. ”Six English-speakg natns the Caribbean still crimalize gay sex, cludg Domi, Jamai, Guyana, Grenada and St. Gonsalv prevly noted there’s been a history of discrimatn agast gay people.

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