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Contents:
- THE ORIGS OF THE WORD ‘GAY’
- ARE ENGLISH 'GAY' AND NORWEGIAN 'GøY' GNAT?
- UTAH’S ARUP BLOOD SERVIC TO EASE RTRICTNS ON GAY, BISEXUAL MALE DONORS
- DO THE WORD FASCIST SHARE A ROOT WH THE ANTI-GAY SLUR F****T?
- AS MAJOR BRANDS WAVER, GAY WATER AIMS FOR AUTHENTICY
- GAY
THE ORIGS OF THE WORD ‘GAY’
* root of gay word *
Chaddock's translatn of Krafft-Ebg's "Psychopathia Sexualis, " om German homosexual, homosexuale (by 1880, Gtav Jäger), om Greek homos "same" (see homo- (1)) + Lat-based sexual.
ARE ENGLISH 'GAY' AND NORWEGIAN 'GøY' GNAT?
Homophobia, culturally produced fear of or prejudice agast homosexuals that sometim manifts self legal rtrictns or, extreme s, bullyg or even vlence agast homosexuals (sometim lled “gay bashg”). The term homophobia was ed the late 1960s and was ed * root of gay word *
Havelock Ellis, "Studi Psychology, " 1897]Sexual versn (1883, later simply versn, by 1895) was an earlier clil term for "homosexualy" English, said by Ellis to have origated Italian psychology wrg.
UTAH’S ARUP BLOOD SERVIC TO EASE RTRICTNS ON GAY, BISEXUAL MALE DONORS
by Anatoly Liberman The qutn about the orig of gay “homosexual” has been asked and answered many tim (and always rrectly), so that we needn’t expect sensatnal disveri this area. The adjective gay, first attted Middle English, is of French scent; the fourteenth century meant both “joyo” and “bright; showy.” The OED giv no atttatns of gay “immoral” before 1637. * root of gay word *
The term gay is equently ed as a synonym for homosexual; female homosexualy is often referred to as different tim and different cultur, homosexual behavur has been varly approved of, tolerated, punished, and banned.
Homosexualy was not unmon ancient Greece and Rome, and the relatnships between adult and adolcent mal particular have bee a chief foc of Wtern classicists recent years. Others—om factns wh mastream Prottantism to anizatns of Reform rabbis—have advoted, on theologil as well as social grounds, the full acceptance of homosexuals and their relatnships.
DO THE WORD FASCIST SHARE A ROOT WH THE ANTI-GAY SLUR F****T?
Growg up, Spencer Hodson said he mostly heard the term “gay” a negative ntext. Now, he wants to stigmatize the word and create reprentatn spac that tradnally don’t have LGBTQ-owned products, one Gay Water at a time. * root of gay word *
Morn velopments Attus toward homosexualy are generally flux, partially as a rult of creased polil activism (see gay rights movement) and efforts by homosexuals to be seen not as aberrant personali but as differg om “normal” dividuals only their sexual orientatn.
The nflictg views of homosexualy—as a variant but normal human sexual behavur on one hand, and as psychologilly viant behavur on the other—rema prent most societi the 21st century, but they have been largely rolved ( the profsnal sense) most veloped untri.
AS MAJOR BRANDS WAVER, GAY WATER AIMS FOR AUTHENTICY
Selected theori of homosexualy Psychologists the 19th and 20th centuri, most of whom classified homosexualy as a form of mental illns, veloped a variety of theori on s orig.
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The stereotyp of male homosexuals as weak and effemate and lbians as mascule and aggrsive, which were wispread the Wt as recently as the 1950s and early ’60s, have largely been disrd.