Here's an A-Z glossary of all the LGBT words and phras you need to know to te yourself - whether you're a gay ally or LGBTQ+.
Contents:
- LAKE COUNTY’S FIRST LATO AND OPENLY GAY UNTYWI OFFICIAL BEGS TERM; ‘GOVERNMENT WORKS BETTER WHEN REFLECTS THE MUNY’
- MOCKSVILLE MAN HELPED LIVER ATOMIC BOMB ON BOARD ENOLA GAY
LAKE COUNTY’S FIRST LATO AND OPENLY GAY UNTYWI OFFICIAL BEGS TERM; ‘GOVERNMENT WORKS BETTER WHEN REFLECTS THE MUNY’
New Lake County Clerk Anthony Vega also ma history recently, beg the first-ever untywi elected Lato official and the first-ever openly gay polician Lake County history. * gay term county *
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.
MOCKSVILLE MAN HELPED LIVER ATOMIC BOMB ON BOARD ENOLA GAY
” 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.
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. The days, the term homosexual is typilly limed to medil ntexts, if ed at all.