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HOW A GAY SLUR BEME A LC PART OF MY INTY
Defns clu: a homosexual. Defns clu: a heterosexual wh many homosexual iends. While some only hear the word “uy” through edians or the morn-day “gay TikTok, ” rurrectg LGBTQ language allows a narrative that mak sexualy a mon nversatn the everyday.
Gay men pecially would e the term among themselv, gently pokg fun at their feme quali. Fast forward to 1952, and the APA’s manual had fed beg gay as a “socpathic personaly disturbance, ” issug a need for therapy volvg physil and mental procr the hop of “curg” homosexualy. ” I gave a pulsory giggle, but that ltle jab would follow me through my adolcence, takg root the back of my a gay Haian Amerin, proud of all facets of my inty, u has many meangs to me.
“The evince for u beg ed as a slur, specifilly to sult gay men, was first documented the early 1900s, ” says John Kelly, senr director of edorial at “Around this time, ‘u’ was also ed to refer to both an ‘easy victim’ and a promiscuo woman. ” Though the orig of u meang gay likely om the 19th century Brish unrground queer language Polari, the earlit prted rerd of as a gay sult is om a 1900 New Haven, Connecticut, amic document lled Dialect Not Vol. You n image, through the lens of homophobia, how the word was weaponized agast gay ’s om the pejorative meangs that the word’s age broaned around the 1930s to refer to the mentally ill, beg kd of a tchall term for crazy, along wh other slang like bananas (which also was a slang term for a gay man) and nuts.