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GAY AS PAT
Gay as Pat is a bygone term that origally was ed to scribe somethg that had been pated bright vivid lors (when gay meant bright, vivac and sparklg before s associatn wh homosexuals). Th, to be gay as pat meant somethg was as "gay (bright) as possible" Jacquele Onassis has been quoted g that term to scribe Tman Capote. In a nversatn she had wh Joan Kennedy, the latter asked if Capote was gay... Jackie replied, "He's so gay, he's gay as pat." By then the term had morphed to scribe flamboyant homosexuals a tongue--cheek nod to the reamg of gay as a homosexual term." name="Dcriptn" property="og:scriptn * paint gay slang *
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. G: Gay. Why gay or lbian and not “homosexual”?
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.
12 SLANG WORDS FOR GAY – USE THE TERMS TO ADDRS THEM!
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” 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. For the and other reasons, the term homosexual is wily nsired disparagg and offensive. Instead, the terms gay and lbian are generally preferred.