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Lnchg Thursday is a brightly lored nned vodka and soda beverage lled Gay Water that proudly displays who ’s for, stead of backg off om support for the LGBTQ+ muny like Bud Light did.

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GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT

The letters stand for: Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr. This is the most well-known of all the acronyms, butg back the mid-1980s as a way to une the muny and move away om the often rogatory-laced “homosexual” (among other words). Once upon a time, four letters were monly ed to scribe the queer muny as a whole: "L" for lbian, "G" for gay, "B" for bisexual and "T" for trans, creatg an acronym: that was then, and this is now.

But there is a reason and history behd s the rise of the acronym, people often simply said, "the gay muny" or "the gay and lbian muny" — which left out bisexual people, who make up the majory of the LGBTQIA+ populatn as a whole, and transgenr people, a group that is largely creded for spearheadg the queer-rights movement to beg wh.

People who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, trans, or anythg else, may also embrace the "queer" label, as more sgular labels may be perceived as too limg.

CHARL BARKLEY FENDS LGBTQIA+ MUNY, BUD LIGHT EXPLETIVE-FILLED RANT: ‘IF YOU’RE GAY, GOD BLS YOU’

Consirg a recent survey by the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn (GLAAD) found that 12 percent of the populatn intifi as LGBTQIA+, 's more ccial than ever to unrstand the termology around this growg muny.

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

Until somewhat recently, variatns of the term "gay muny" were ed to enpass the entirety of the group that we now refer to as LGBTQIA+. Magaze, the first acronym to take shape the 1990s was "GLBT, " ed to scribe those who intified as eher gay, lbian, bisexual, or transgenr.

" This notatn clus space for those intifyg as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer (and some s, "qutng"), tersex, asexual (and sometim "ally"), and the "+" is for a plethora of other orientatns and inti.

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

Before then, the term "gay" was ed to refer to both men and women, although was more closely associated wh men. G: Gay.

Before the latter half of the 19th century, the word "gay" simply referred to someone who was "reee, " "cheerful, " or "bright and showy, " acrdg to The Oxford Dictnary of Difficult Words. Sce then, the word "gay" has fully replaced the term "homosexual, " which many found to be too clil and was riddled wh stigma. Acrdg to the Universy of Illois, "gay" is still ed to scribe a number of thgs, cludg the LGBTQIA+ muny as a whole, a sgle dividual who do not intify as straight, and men who are attracted to other men a "romantic, erotic and/or emotnal sense.

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