This Amerin Psychologist reprt prents suggtns for avoidg heterosexual bias language ncerng lbians, gay men and bisexual persons.
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Don Kulick, Gay and Lbian Language, Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 29 (2000), pp. 243-285 * what is gay language called *
Only sce the begng of the 20th century has queer been ed to refer to people who intify as gay or lbian. 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.
* what is gay language called *
It’s OK to scribe someone you know who publicly self-intifi as gay, lbian, bisexual, or another sexual orientatn as out. But never out someone, or expose their lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr inty, whout permissn.