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Contents:
- DICK LESCH’S GUI TO SEVENTI GAY SLANG
- 12 SLANG WORDS FOR GAY – USE THE TERMS TO ADDRS THEM!
- KAL PENN OUT AS GAY, SHAR HOW HIS 11-YEAR RELATNSHIP STARTED WH NASCAR
- GAY
- THIS IS HOW FRANCE’S NATNALIST PARTY IS WNG GAY SUPPORT
DICK LESCH’S GUI TO SEVENTI GAY SLANG
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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. 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.
12 SLANG WORDS FOR GAY – USE THE TERMS TO ADDRS THEM!
Kal Penn, most known for his role as Kumar Patel alongsi John Cho’s Harold Lee the h “Harold and Kumar” film anchise, has e out as gay and announced his recent engagement. It started wh NASCAR: In an terview wh People, Penn, 44, teased some tails about his new book “You Can’t Be Ser,” where he talks about his sexualy, fay and his first date wh his partner Josh, whom he met while workg the Whe Hoe unr the Obama Admistratn. “I'm really exced to share our relatnship wh rears,” Penn said. * pen gay term *
” 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.
KAL PENN OUT AS GAY, SHAR HOW HIS 11-YEAR RELATNSHIP STARTED WH NASCAR
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. 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). Partially rponse to Stonewall, 1970, queer activists New York Cy anized a march to Central Park wh the theme “Gay Pri.
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. Although Lbian, Gay, Bi, Trans, and Queer (LGBTQ+) people have been around for lennia, the evolutn of language means that those wh the muny ntue to fd more clive and accurate terms to bt scribe themselv, as Stonewall’s ever-evolvg glossary of terms prov. Aromantic people are also the ace tegory and, siarly to asexual people, may intify as gay, lbian, heterosexual, or queer to fe the directn of their attractn to others.
”Gay: The word “gay” is generally ed to scribe someone who is sexually or romantilly attracted to people of the same genr. Homosexual: This antiquated term was ed historilly to refer to people who were attracted to people of the same genr, but ’s rarely ed today. ” Beg trans or transgenr is unnnected to sexual orientatn, so a trans person may intify as gay, straight, lbian, or whatever is right for them the same way a cisgenr person would.
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Transsexual: Like “homosexual, ” “transsexual” is largely an outdated, historil term ed to refer to someone whose genr is different om what they were assigned at birth. Dick Lesch, an early gay-rights activist, who is now his eighti, arranged to donate his old workg fil to the archiv of the New York Public Library. ”In 1959, when Lesch was twenty-four, he left his fay home, Kentucky, for New York Cy, where he found work as a pater, a bartenr, a rator, a journalist, and as the unpaid print of the Mattache Society, one of the first gay-rights anizatns.
THIS IS HOW FRANCE’S NATNALIST PARTY IS WNG GAY SUPPORT
When the Stonewall rts broke out, three years later, he was the only openly gay reporter on the scene, verg the event for a new gay-focsed magaze lled The a recent Friday eveng, Lesch’s buzzer rang. In 1959, he left Kentucky for New York Cy, where he beme the print of the Mattache Society, one of the first gay-rights anizatns.
“This rd file is great, ” he said, flippg through a set of four-by-six x rds on which Lesch had neatly typed out gay slang terms om antiquy.
” Some of the fns were more nuanced: an “ntie, ” Lesch had wrten, was “an ageg or middle aged homosexual, offtim effemate character, ” or “a person of settled meanor who utns agast temperate acts. Photograph by Rebec FudalaNext up was Lesch’s llectn of magaz and newsletters, cludg After Dark (“Oh, bls you—they’re real llector’s ems, ” Bmann said); Christopher Street (“We have the archiv”); Female Mimics (“That’s fabulo”); the 1969 Time issue on homosexualy (“Cute”); and the monthly bullet for the Mattache Society.