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Contents:

• WORDS THAT RHYME WH GAY
• MY GAY VOICE AND YOURS
• "DO I SOUND GAY?"
• WHAT WORD SOUNDS LIKE GAY?
• THE GAY VOICE
• WHAT MEANS TO ‘SOUND GAY’
• WORDS NTAG GAY
• SYNONYMS OF GAY
• SLANG FOR GAY

WORDS THAT RHYME WH GAY

I n fd ltle evince of this on the ter, but sce gay culture is passed down through hearsay and gossip, I’m cludg this.

MY GAY VOICE AND YOURS

Some archivist or queer historian may rroborate or squash this ia, one I heard om a gay elr and pass on to you — that “queer” was actually the word preferred by the first wave of queens, h om the closet, sweatg word-of-mouth disthequ that migrated through the cy.

So many zgers are rerd om those trials that this seems plsible: Sir John Douglas, the Marqus of Queensbury (serly), who first lled Wil a sodome and lnched the gay playwright’s epic mise, reportedly lled Wil a “snob queer” durg the proceedgs. A mon slogan you n still fd on T-shirts and queer bars across the untry is “Not gay as happy, but queer as ‘fuck you. “Queer” addrs the fluidy of genr and sexual orientatn and f those who e as people foced on problems largely ignored by the gay rights movement: racism, wage equaly, women’s rights, transphobia, and so on.

“Homo” is still a slur to many gay men, but jt as “queer” beme a power term, “homo” has seen a recent surge populary.

"DO I SOUND GAY?"

The word beme cemented antigay lgo wh the famo CBS Reports episo “The Homosexuals, ” which aired on March 7, 1967 (I would be born on the same day 25 years later). A self-intified gay woman, she rried the bt sign the crowd, one that exemplified slur-reclamatn: “DYKE: We might not go down history, but we’ll do down on your sister!

It’s easy to see how “faggot” beme a hate word wh s implitn that gay men should that meang, words like “flamer” and “flamg” formed as rogatory terms for feme men.

“Fairy” — an old-school antigay dig — has been stripped of s power by the Radil Faerie movement and new-era queers. ”There may have been gay people his cy, but the faerie muny is a smaller subgroup wh the larger muny that celebrat diversy, self-exprsn, genr fluidy, spirualism, and sexual openns.

WHAT WORD SOUNDS LIKE GAY?

” This is a mon English gay slur — one that, acrdg to some iends London, is the equivalent of “faggot” across the For: I’ll have to ask them if “poof” is makg a rurgence as a power Agast: It’s offensive to our neighbors the U.

Werk , are a ln different “queens” old-school gay lexin: drag queens, gym queens, leather queens, size queens (ahem). Sce ’s a clear mentary on gay sex (meant to attack parts of our timacy that untls gay men have securi about), let me jt say that I’m absolutely a fudge packer — or whatever you ll the receptive end of that term.

” Here’s a history lson urty of the History News Network:The ‘nance, ’ or Nancy Boy, was a gay burlque character om the 1930s who brought guffaws and belly lghs as he pranced about the stage, creatg mpy scen and sketch of gay life.

THE GAY VOICE

In the late 1930s, New York Mayor Frello LaGuardia, fearful of how the lurid burlque shows would make his cy look the upg World’s Fair of 1939, cracked down on the of LaGuardia’s anger was aimed at the Nance, whom crics said created dienc of lty gay men havg sex the dark balni of the burlque emporiums. If I had the sh, I’d buy them For: In 2017, we’re the bs of takg back antigay Agast: Some guys don’t want to be “nancy boys” bee ternalized homophobia exists. As bt as I n dig, term for a gay bottom origat om a '70s sndal volvg Brish polician Jeremy Thorpe, who was acced of attemptg to murr his male lover, Norman Stt, ’s all very nfg, and the origs of the term self seem bog.

To reclaim “sodome” is to do battle wh the scriptur — the same book so many antigay csars have clutched their fists, red-faced, through sermons about why we shouldn’t be allowed to adopt children or be legally ’s hard to note the mers of the Bible when ’s been the batterg ram of antigay policians, punds, and hate lears for s. Unfortunately, there are a few other vers that get explic regardg homosexualy: Levic 20:13, 1 Corthians 6:9, Levic 18:22, Romans 1:25-27. The words at the top of the list are the on most associated wh homosexual, and as you go down the relatedns be more slight.

WHAT MEANS TO ‘SOUND GAY’

By flt, the words are sorted by relevance/relatedns, but you n also get the most mon homosexual terms by g the menu below, and there's also the optn to sort the words alphabetilly so you n get homosexual words startg wh a particular letter. So for example, you uld enter "gay" and click "filter", and 'd give you words that are related to homosexual and gay. So although you might see some synonyms of homosexual the list below, many of the words below will have other relatnships wh homosexual - you uld see a word wh the exact oppose meang the word list, for example.

WORDS NTAG GAY

So 's the sort of list that would be eful for helpg you build a homosexual vobulary list, or jt a general homosexual word list for whatever purpose, but 's not necsarily gog to be eful if you're lookg for words that mean the same thg as homosexual (though still might be handy for that).

If you don't fd what you're lookg for the list below, or if there's some sort of bug and 's not displayg homosexual related words, please send me feedback g this page.

The words down here at the bottom of the list will be some way associated wh homosexual, but perhaps tenuoly (if you've currenly got sorted by relevance, that is).

SYNONYMS OF GAY

No one r if you ARE gay but you n’t ACT gay…” Sce then I have ponred what even means to “act gay”-- or to “act straight, ” for that matter.

But at the time I knew exactly what meant: I had a “gay voice” and was therefore cursed to live a life of mute daydreamg. ) But 99% of the time the magic would fa once I was st, revealg me to be a guy who uld ocsnally hi behd a ep voice, but who generally prented as “gay.

SLANG FOR GAY

And I uld no longer take the sult of watchg lleagu wh “tough guy” personas get st gay and/or effemate male rol.

For stance, a classmate om nservatory--who ed to tease me about my effemate mannerisms, BTW--was eventually st as a gay activist a big award-wng movie, based on a big award-wng play, about gay liv. As stg director Brette Goldste told me 2008, the thg about the gay rol on televisn and film is that “You’ll often have straight men playg them. Though some gay actors are effectively creatg their own opportuni to play a variety of rol (gay, straight, mascule, feme, and everythg between), such as the makers of the entertag seri East Sirs.

But even though I chose not to ntue swimmg upstream toward a full time actg reer, I also somehow knew not to dismiss myself for beg “too gay” or too genr nonnformg.