The gay world is often reprented as some sort of monolhic whole that has the same culture. That is a lie. It is actually broken down to a handful of substrata to which each gay belongs. Here they are.
Contents:
- A HANDY GUI TO ALL GAY MEN
- THE HISTORY OF THE WORD “GAY”
- EXPLORG THE TTH BEHD THE RUMORS: IS WILL WOOD GAY?
- GAY
- GAY (HOMOSEXUAL) AND GAY (HAPPY)
A HANDY GUI TO ALL GAY MEN
* wood gay meaning *
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THE HISTORY OF THE WORD “GAY”
by Jordan Redman Staff Wrer Do you know what the word gay really means? The word gay dat back to the 12th century and om the Old French “gai,” meang “full of joy or mirth.” It may also relate to the Old High German “gahi,” meang impulsive. * wood gay meaning *
The standard fn of homosexual is “a person sexually attracted to people of one’s own sex.
” But, ’s typilly applied to men, and lbian is the term for a female homosexual. GLAAD prefers that we don’t e the term homosexual bee ’s “aggrsively ed by anti-gay extremists to suggt that gay people are somehow diseased or psychologilly/emotnally disorred. Bee suggts that beg lbian, gay, bisexual, or of another sexual orientatn is a choice and the person n be “cured.
EXPLORG THE TTH BEHD THE RUMORS: IS WILL WOOD GAY?
It’s not a gay liftyle.
The word gay refers to a homosexual man, but origally meant “lighthearted, joyful, reee.
” Gay as an adjective meang “homosexual” go back at least to the 1930s. Today, gay liftyle is a monly ed—and mised—term.
GAY
In the LGBTQ muny, gay liftyle, as well as homosexual liftyle, are sometim owned upon. It’s OK to scribe someone you know who publicly self-intifi as gay, lbian, bisexual, or another sexual orientatn as out. It’s also OK to scribe someone as openly gay, lbian, or bisexual.
But never out someone, or expose their lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr inty, whout permissn.
GAY (HOMOSEXUAL) AND GAY (HAPPY)
Banishg the "homosexual agenda".
But, people who are gay, lbian, bisexual, or transgenr also re about a wi variety of other polil, social, and cultural issu.