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Contents:

• HOW QUEER AS FOLK BEME THE DEFG GAY TV SHOW OF A GENERATN—TWICE
• THE HISTORY OF THE WORD “GAY”
• NBA RUMORS: JAM HARN TRA TALKS, JOEL EMBIID, PJ TUCKER, RUDY GAY, LAKERS, WARRRS, BUCKS, MORE
• GAY

HOW QUEER AS FOLK BEME THE DEFG GAY TV SHOW OF A GENERATN—TWICE

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In an era of creasgly equent—if often imperfect—queer reprentatn media, might be difficult for the young target dience of Peack’s new reboot of the classic Queer as Folk to image that a show followg a group of gay men Ptsburgh livg relatively average liv uld have created a new paradigm for how gay and lbian stori would be told on televisn.

THE HISTORY OF THE WORD “GAY”

So often lled “ground-breakg” that the scriptn might start to sound tre if weren’t also te, Queer as Folk put gay people and queer storyl ont and center a way that even other media of the time promently featurg gay characters, like Will & Grace, had yet to do. K., and provid many young queer people’s first exposure to gayns not amed as eher a dly tertg sishow attractn alongsi a straight person’s “real story, ” or an abject tragedy. Davi was chg to wre somethg he felt accurately ptured not only the reali of beg a gay man Manchter, but also the broar experience of growg up and disverg who you are.

The show premiered 1999 on Channel 4, and followed three men and their iends Manchter’s Canal street area, known as the Gay Village.

Though each versn provid unprecented gay reprentatn, the lack of diversy race and genr exprsn the show leav out any reprentatn of trans people and people of lor the queer muny. Queer as Folks received somewhat mixed early receptn om both nservative forc unhappy to see a show centered on gay people airg on a major work, and queer people who felt the show relied too heavily on stereotyp and lacked diversy.

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Versn was also cricized for not featurg the AIDS crisis s plotl, nsirg how severely was affectg the gay muny at the time the show was ma. Where those past eratns largely centered on cis, whe, gay men, the new Queer As Folk foc on a much more diverse cross-sectn of the LGBTQ muny, particularly a group of iends prent-day New Orleans who are brought closer together the wake of an all-too-mon tragedy. And, you know, my gay, disabled *ss at 12 uld never have even fathomed beg a—well, first of all, I wouldn’t know what a reboot is.

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(PS- I'm a girl)I stayed up late last night watchg Queer as YourMom July 15, 2004FlagGet the Queer as Folk your web se on Urban Dictnary jt 3 clicksQueer As FolkBrish TV seri about a tr of gay men (and their acquatanc) livg their liv on the Manchter gay scene. Many untri around the world have their own versn of queer slang, om Brish gay slang rived om the rhymg slang Polari to beki – the Philipp’ queer language that borrows om a slew of sourc, cludg pop culture, Japane, Spanish, and the untry’s lol languag.

But the Onle Slang Dictnary c 1960s gay male culture as the earlit known source, particularly rtoonist Joe Johnson’s characters “Miss Thg” and “Big Dick”, which appeared early issu of The Advote. Homosexualy remaed illegal across the Uned Stat the mid-twentieth century – that is, until Illois beme the first state to crimalize same-sex relatns 1962. In the 60s and 70s, gay men even had a “hanky ” – a system that volved wearg bandanas wh lors that signified whether you were a top, bottom, to BDSM, etc.

In the 60s, Lesch was the print of a gay rights anizatn lled the Mattache Society and me up wh the “Sip-In” – a monstratn held at New York Cy bars that banned service to out gay people.

Lesch scribed nti as “agg or middle-aged homosexuals, offtim effemate character” and people of “settled meanor who utns agast temperate acts”. The drag fai beme a refuge for gay, trans, and genr non-nformg youth who were turned away by their own fai or experienced homelsns due to poverty.

For centuri, gay was ed monly speech and lerature to mean happy, reee, bright and showy, and did not take on any sexual meang until the 1600s.

In the 1890s, the term “gey t” (a Sttish variant of gay) was ed to scribe a vagrant who offered sexual servic to women or a young traveler who was new to the road and the pany of an olr man. This latter e suggts that the younger man was a sexually submissive role and may be among the first tim that gay was ed implyg a homosexual relatnship.

In 1951, gay appeared the Oxford English Dictnary for the first time as slang for homosexual, but was most likely ed this way “unrground” at least 30 years earlier. ” This le (ad-libbed by Grant) n be terpreted to mean that he was behavg a happy-go-lucky or lighthearted way but is accepted by many as the first e of gay to mean homosexual a mastream movie. When gay is ed today to mean stupid or unsirable ( has only been ed this way sce the 1990s), rri wh a history of negative judgment and rigid ias about who or what is acceptable.