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Contents:

• A GAY PAPER: WHY SHOULD SOCLGUISTICS BOTHER WH SEMANTICS?
• A GAY PAPER: WHY SHOULD SOCLGUISTICS BOTHER WH SEMANTICS?
• SEMANTIC CHANGE OF THE WORD GAY
• “GAY SEMTICS” REVISED
• CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER

A GAY PAPER: WHY SHOULD SOCLGUISTICS BOTHER WH SEMANTICS?

‘Liberatg the screen: Gay and lbian protts of LGBT.

‘Homophobia a universy muny: Attus and experienc of heterosexual hmen.

‘Attus towards and knowledge about lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr patients among Italian nurs: An observatnal study. ‘Gay is okay wh APA – Fom honors landmark 1973 events. ‘A gay paper: Why should soclguistics bother wh semantics?

A GAY PAPER: WHY SHOULD SOCLGUISTICS BOTHER WH SEMANTICS?

‘Cary Grant and the emergence of gay “homosexual”. ‘Cleopatra wore a bracelet gay– How words change their meangs? ‘“That's so gay”: a ntemporary e of gay Atralian English.

‘The clg signifince of homohysteria for male stunts three sixth forms the south of England. ‘“That's so gay!

Or even LGBTQIA+ History terms for the muny of people that enpass people who are lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, tersex, and asexual are as broad as that muny self: As society’s unrstandg, regnn, and cln of diverse sexual inti and genr exprsns has grown, so has s acronym.

SEMANTIC CHANGE OF THE WORD GAY

Over time, grew populary and was adopted by women who secretly, then proudly, loved other dawn of “homosexualy” and “bisexualy”Karl Herich Ulrichs, a 19th century German lawyer and wrer who may have intified as gay, was the first to try to label his own muny. In 1869, the Pssian ernment ntemplated addg language that forba male same-genr sexual activy to s rponse, Kertbeny wrote a passnate, anonymo open letter to the Pssian mister of jtice llg the proposed law “shockg nonsense” and g the word “homosexualy, ” which he had prevly ed a private letter to Ulrichs. Early gay rights groups and practners of the growg field of psychology eventually adopted the Reclaimg a slurIn the late 1960s, activists reclaimed a s-old slur, “gay.

Though s origs are murky, “gay” was eventually embraced by men who fied the stat quo wh open exprsns of same-genr love. Activists also began g other terms like social variant, viant, and “homophile, ” which means “same love, ” an effort to sistep monly ed slurs, emphasize the lovg relatnships of same-genr relatnships, and prott discrimatory laws. The words were ed “as the means whereby dividuals uld make sense of their own experienc, their active-unrgog of beg homosexual a homophobic environment, ” wr soclogist J.

“GAY SEMTICS” REVISED

Todd 1980, wrote sayist Edmund Whe, “gay” had overtaken the other terms for men who are attracted to men. “Transgenr” be part of LGBTIn the 1990s, the longstandg bonds between lbian, gay, and bisexual people both daily life and liberatn activism led to the wispread adoptn of the LGB acronym (lbian, gay and bisexual) took longer to ga acceptance for another term that is now part of the morn acronym: “transgenr.

But “queer” was creasgly ed by people wh the gay rights movement begng the 1990s. Should we scribe the Warren Cup, which picts men engagg sexual acts together, as ‘gay’, or label as an ‘LGBTQ object’? Queer, gay, and ‘LGBT’ are not jt ntemporary, they are polil words.

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I’ve varly ed the terms ‘gay history’, ‘gay and lbian history’, ‘homosexual history’, ‘LGBT history’, and ‘queer history’ my work to note a herent field of study. In my wrg I beg wh the word ‘gay’.

If I prent my wrg to an amic dience who may be ristant to ‘popular’ termology, I replace the word ‘gay’ wh ‘homosexual’. In my own md, none of the wi variety of terms available serly distorts what I thk of as my subject – ‘Gay History’ – or the historil methodology ed to explore .