GAY SLANG 101 – JJ Malibu

Contents:

• GAY SLANG 101
• GAY DICTNARY
• SYNONYMS OF GAY
• GAY

GAY SLANG 101

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.

GAY DICTNARY

And many feel that this word plac undue emphasis on sexual activy, or that sounds overly clil.” 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.”. 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.” A more prehensive history of the Stonewall Rt or the Stonewall Uprisg n be found our Pri Month explaer. 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. While often ed rogatorily, is also reclaimed affirmatively by some lbians and gay women as a posive self inty term.

SYNONYMS OF GAY

Often nflated wh sexual attractn, romantic attractn, and/or spirual (got) – noun: rogatory term referrg to a gay person, or someone perceived as queer. This [medil] term is nsired stigmatizg (particularly as a noun) due to s history as a tegory of mental illns, and is disuraged for mon e (e gay or lbian stead).

LGBTQ is Lbian Gay Bisexual Transgenr and Queer and/or Qutng (sometim people at a + at the end an effort to be more clive); GSM is Genr and Sexual Mori; DSG is Diverse Sexuali and Genrs. Other optns clu the ialism GLBT or LGBT and the acronym QUILTBAG (Queer [or Qutng] Uncid Intersex Lbian Trans* Bisexual Asexual [or Allied] and Gay [or Genrqueer]).

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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.

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. Aromantic Homosexual — A person who has sexual attractn to the same genr, but they do not experience romantic attractn. Gay is also an inty term ed to scribe a male-intified person who is attracted to other male-intified people a romantic, sexual, and/or emotnal sense.

Gay Aromantic — A person who has sexual attractn to the same genr, but they do not experience romantic attractn.

Homophobia — Homophobia means to have an irratnal fear or tolerance of people who are homosexual or havg feelgs of homosexualy.