How ‘Gay’ Came to Mean ‘Homosexual’

Contents:

• GAYS HI, FLEE EX-SOVIET REPUBLICS AS LGBT CRACKDOWNS TURN BTAL
• WH GAY ABANDON
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• ‘GAY’ UPLE PHYSILLY, VERBALLY ABED DURG SOCIAL EXPERIMENT MOSW
• A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

GAYS HI, FLEE EX-SOVIET REPUBLICS AS LGBT CRACKDOWNS TURN BTAL

In my 2020 book“Come Out, Come Out, Whoever You Are, ”, I explore the history of this term, om the earlit days of the gay rights movement, to today, when has been adopted by other movements. At the first Gay Liberatn March New York Cy June 1970, one of the anizers stated that “we’ll never have the eedom and civil rights we serve as human begs unls we stop hidg closets and the shelter of anonymy.

WH GAY ABANDON

For stance, 1978, his mpaign to feat a California iative that would have banned gay teachers om workg state public schools, openly gay elected ernment official Harvey Milk urged people to “Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are. Milk gambled that if queer people told their iends they were gay, Californians would realize that they had iends, workers and fay members who were gay and – out of solidary – would oppose the proposn.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

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Rights groups say the creased reprsn and vlence agast lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people former Soviet republics has been enuraged by Rsia’s 2013 law crimalizg the distributn to mors of “distorted ias about the equal social value of tradnal and nontradnal sexual relatnships.

In October, the Samara regn on Rsia's Volga River, 27-year-old LGBT rights activist Yevdokia Romanova was nvicted and fed unr what crics have dubbed the "gay propaganda” law -- spe a June lg by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) that the legislatn vlat the European Conventn on Human Rights.

‘GAY’ UPLE PHYSILLY, VERBALLY ABED DURG SOCIAL EXPERIMENT MOSW

Krivosheyev tells RFE/RL that the 2013 law ially enuraged a wave of homophobic attacks across Rsia that, by 2017, had spread to other former Soviet republics the form of official crackdowns, discrimatn, and mob vlence. Erbulat, a gay iend of the victim of one attack that was rerd and posted onle by a homophobic gang, tells RFE/RL there have been many siar attacks recently agast homosexuals Uzbekistan but victims are sred to ll police.

In October, the Tajik Prosecutor-General’s Office announced had piled a list of what said were 367 gay men and women the untry “ orr to protect their safety and to prevent the transmissn of sexually transmted diseas.

Amnty Internatnal also says groups that fend LGBT rights are facg a rise hostily parts of the former Soviet Unn, fueled by discrimatn, homophobia, and what scrib as Rsia’s csa agast “nontradnal sexual relatnships. The Rsian LGBT Network nfirms that the safety of some Chechen homosexuals at their safe ho has been promised by relativ, Chechen police, or others sent to hunt them down and return them to Chechnya.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

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The word “gay” seems to have s origs around the 12th century England, rived om the Old French word ‘gai’, which turn was probably rived om a Germanic word, though that isn’t pletely known. Sce then, gay, meang homosexual male, has steadily driven out all the other fns that have floated about through time and of urse also has gradually begun supplementg the word ‘lbian’ as referrg to women who are homosexual.

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