gay lgo - Or: <a href="gay">gay</a> <a href="talk">talk</a> / <a href="gayle">gayle</a> / gayspeak , the <a href="homosexual">homosexual</a> vernacular. <BR> Synonyms: buff-talk; <a href="fag-lang">fag-lang</a>; <a href="faglish">faglish</a>; <a href="gay+slang">gay slang</a>; <a href="gay">gay</a> slanguage; <a href="Gail">Gail</a>; <a href="gayle">gayle</a>; gayspeak; <a href="queen">queen</a>'s vernacular. <P> Quote: Julia <a href="P">P</a>. Stanley and San J. Wolfe, <b> Sexist Slang and the Gay Communy. Are You One, Too? </b> (1979): ' Such specialized languag quickly intify the members of a group to each other, provi them wh a system for exprsg ncepts and valu herent and unique to the group, and exclu non-members. Our data dite that the valu perpetrated by "<a href="gay">gay</a>" slang are those of a heterosexist, patriarchal society which <a href="homophobia">homophobia</a> is the "norm", that the <a href="terms">terms</a> that nstute the "<a href="gay">gay</a>" vobulary serve the terts and exprsive needs of mal, and that most of the <a href="terms">terms</a> referred to as "<a href="gay">gay</a>" slang are not unique to <a href="gay">gay</a> ntexts. In fact, most of the words are borrowed, meang exchanged, om <a href="heterosexual">heterosexual</a> male slang. There is a special sense, however, which the so-lled "<a href="gay">gay</a>" lexin accurately reflects our paradoxal existence as outsts: we have failed, as a group, to create our own culture, wh valu and mor reprentative of our liftyl. Instead, those of who are faiar wh "<a href="gay">gay</a>" slang have ternalized the assumptns of heterosexist society as givens our own liv. One of the cleart exampl of this ternalizatn li the set of <a href="terms">terms</a> that reflect <a href="sexist">sexist</a> <a href="attus">attus</a> toward women. As we will monstrate, gays have rporated <a href="terms">terms</a> that <a href="lim">lim</a> women to a specific role or stat, acceptg even those valu that exclu gays.' </P>
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GAY LANGUAGE(1,700 WORDS)
This is the dictnary of gay, lbian, transgenr and bisexuals slang and termology. There are also opns and documentatn about beg gay, virgy, g out, safer sex, AIDS and HIV, pornography, age of nsent (legal age) the world, handkerchief etcetera * gay language definition *
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.
GAY (ADJ.)
GAY Meang: "full of joy, merry; light-hearted, reee;" also "wanton, lewd, lasciv" (late 12c. as a surname,… See orig and meang of gay. * gay language definition *
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.”. For the and other reasons, the term homosexual is wily nsired disparagg and offensive.
GAY LGO
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.