The Gay F-Word

Contents:

• THE GAY F-WORD
• SYNONYMS OF GAY
• ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER
• MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH
• GAY
• WHAT DO MEAN TO BE GAY 2017?

THE GAY F-WORD

LOG IN WITH FACEBOOKHome›Polics and Activism›The Gay F-Word›IT'S JUNE, AND YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS! Over time, sce gay men were typilly seen as woman-like, and therefore the term gradually shifted to jt beg ed agast gay men.

Sce the term means a bundle of sticks, faggot is a subtle reference to medieval tim when gay men were burned at the stake g– you gused ! Gay people don't even e close to sayg faggot as much as straight people do. It's a mon sult heard all environments bee to many, beg gay or implyg someone is gay is somethg to shame others for.

SYNONYMS OF GAY

Faggot is ed as an sult so equently that there's an endls bate the gay-person world whether or not 's even ok for to say .

But my personaly and mannerisms were nsired que "feme" by my classmat, leadg them to e words like "gay" and "faggot" to make me feel bad, givg me reason to transfer to a new district when I started high school. This occurrence did not jt happen to me; happens to thoands of LGBTQ+ kids/teens all across the world who get ma fun of wh the word "fag" bee mean-spired people pare kids who are different to beg gay, which is sadly still the popular thought most 't get me wrong, I acknowledge that kids and teens are g a long way and have grown to be more acceptg of all sexuali, genrs, and everythg else, but the problem is still prent and still needs to be taken re of. There are a handful of people that say that "fag" don't need to be reclaimed bee 's always been a word to flict harm upon gay people and should jt be left behd.

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Other gay people say that "fag" should be reclaimed to take away s power.

In the past I have heard gay people scribe "fag" as "the N-word for gay people.

So the word "fag" is not "the N-word for gay people, " but is a word that has the optn of beg reclaimed to take away s power and stead be ed for empowerment. "In my opn, I prefer to reclaim the word "fag" to take away s power over gay people.

MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH

There is a good amount of gay people who simply aren't ready or don't want to reclaim "fag, " and 's up to me and everyone else to rpect those opns. Let's say, for example, I get a new job and I have a worker who is very homophobic.

" By referrg to myself as a "fag, " stead of potentially hearg om the homophobic worker, I've taken away the word's power to hurt me the future. Other than suatns of humour amongst other gay people or for irony, I wouldn't e "fag" to scribe another gay person bee, like I said, I have no way of knowg if another gay person is OK wh beg lled a fag whout askg them outright, which would probably jt be unfortable.

GAY

Overall, I mostly e "fag" for my own benef; I really don't md beg lled by other gay people. If a gay person do not like to hear or be lled a fag, jt don't say to them.

Don't go crazy though; even I would get tired of beg lled a fag every five sends om another gay guy.

WHAT DO MEAN TO BE GAY 2017?

a gay, thoughtls girl who didn't re whether her work was done or not.

wh a gay toss of his at over his shoulr, the dapper old gentleman set off for the party. was the era of the flappers, and young women were gay, bold, and fiant of nventn.

Some mon synonyms of gay are animated, lively, sprightly, and vivac.

While all the words mean "keenly alive and spired, " gay strs plete eedom om re and overflowg spirs.

The words animated and gay n be ed siar ntexts, but animated appli to what is spired and active. In some suatns, the words lively and gay are roughly equivalent. While the synonyms sprightly and gay are close meang, sprightly suggts lightns and spired vigor of manner or w.

The synonyms vivac and gay are sometim terchangeable, but vivac suggts an activens of gture and w, often playful or allurg. It don't matter if you're:a 14-year-old boy wh an effemate walka 50-year-old man who lik to pat his nailsor somebody who jt lik drsg however the hell they want"Faggot” is a cel tchall ed to scribe, typilly, any male who is gay, soft-spoken, or who don't f the stereotypilly (toxic) fn of masculy. Words like "poof" and "queer" were more monly ed the Uned Kgdom to scribe a homosexual.

In 1978, gay thor Larry Kramer published a novel, "Faggots, " about the gay liftyle New York Cy the 1970s. Set prr to the AIDS epimic, the novel explor the reee—and sometim hedonistic—liftyle of a group of gay men. The novel would prove ntroversial wh the gay muny at the time; some were offend wh the e of the word and the portrayal of the gay liftyle.

While the novel was meant to be a satire, 's an early example of a gay man reclaimg a word often ed as an sult.

The closeted gay man livg Toronto may ( private) fd "faggot” a soul-cshg word, while the drag queen Montreal may fd the word hilar and regularly e a standup route or mil performance. Bee she displayed a Pri flag on her r, someone (or someon) cid to spraypat "fag” and "U R Gay" on her vehicle.

Like so many other people who've had to experience the gradatn that n e wh the word "fag” or "faggot, " she chose to e as a teachable moment and she a light on the issue of homophobia. " It's ed to scribe a heterosexual woman who is close iends wh a gay male. The male equivalent is "fag stag" (tertg note: straight men wh close gay iends are also known as "u fli") the age of the ter and social media, more and more people are reclaimg words that have typilly been ed as terms of risn.

It is important to note that the same-sex soc-sexual behavr observed the study is distct om homosexual behavr bee s motivatn and purpose are social, said Jean-Baptiste Le, who studi primate behavr at the Universy of Lethbridge Canada and was not volved the new rearch. To be classified as te homosexual behavr, the form, motivatn and functn would all have to be sexual nature, he said. In May, Joakim Noah of the Chigo Bulls was fed $50, 000 by the league for hurlg the anti-gay slur at a fan.

To many people, gay and straight, has bee another a long le of unacceptable, unsavory and unnecsary ephets. The OED c a 1914 reference a book of crimal slang as the first morn Amerin e of faggot as a slur for a homosexual male: "All the fagots (sissi) will be drsed drag at the ball tonight. " Usage of the word beme more plex wh the dawn of the gay-rights movement.

" Gay men haven't talked about that sister sensatn a lot, Stuever says, and they are jt begng to open up.

He believ that the recent "It Gets Better" project — a viral vio mpaign and book aimed at protectg gay teenagers — has had wispread ronance "not bee people are terted banng a word, though I thk some people thk 's as simple as that. ' And then if someone merely the word my prence whether they know I am gay or not, I still nsir sultg.

" The more the culture r what blacks, Hispanics or gays thk, Sheidlower said, "the more attuned we are to slurs agast them. "Even enlightened men, " says Stuever, "men wh many gay iends, men wh functnal relatnships wh wiv and girliends — will masculize one another sual nversatn. In our most popular culture, Stuever says, "nothg is currently more funny to male and female dienc than the subtle anti-gay joke, which masculy is threatened by ferenc or direct exampl of homosexualy.

" Stuever says that when he was llege and jt g out, there was a sense that gays and lbians uld ntralize slurs "wh irony and rebell embrace. He also pots to a recent full-page advertisement The New York Tim urgg people to stop sayg "gay" to dub somethg unsirable or repugnant, as "That's so gay. " In fact, Stuever suggts, this might be the next anti-slur ontier: the scbbg away popular parlance of the word "gay.

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