Defns | The Office of Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer, and Intersex Life | Vanrbilt Universy

Contents:

• GAY
• KJV DICTNARY DEFN: GAY
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, & INTERSEX LIFE
• GAY'
• GAY "SIS": HOW LANGUAGE FRE US TO BE OURSELV
• 39 BIBLE VERS ABOUT BEG GAY

GAY

In the gay uple, a verse top is someone who do the top for sex but willg to be topped gay lgo, Verse top asked qutn as are you top or bottom? The term began as shorthand gay chatrooms but is now ed real life and on datg apps.

Gay men who bottom are sometim assumed to be the ‘woman the relatnship’ (which isn’t accurate. “I ntributed a term to the gay male muny.

Gay men are always fg themselv as top and bottom or verse for terurse. What about gay men who don’t engage terurse?

KJV DICTNARY DEFN: GAY

A third add: “Personally I’m not crazy about the term ‘si’ (sounds to me like someone lyg there, dog not much) but ’s good that Grdr acknowledg that there’s more to gay sex than anal. Pri, formerly known as Gay Pri, is a regnn of LGBTQ inty, affirmatn of equal rights, and celebratn of visibily, digny, and diversy the LGBTQ muny.

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, & INTERSEX LIFE

G: Gay. Why gay or lbian and not “homosexual”? While the word homosexual is still ocsnally ed some ntexts, you might have noticed that don’t make an appearance any versn of the LGBTQ acronym.

As our age note on the term stat, “up until 1973, homosexualy was listed The Diagnostic and Statistil Manual of Mental Disorrs (DSM), psychiatry’s standard reference on the classifitn of mental illns. People aware of this former tegorizatn feel that the term homosexual still rri a negative nnotatn. And many feel that this word plac undue emphasis on sexual activy, or that sounds overly clil.” In fact, the term homosexual was liberately rejected by early gay rights activists bee, acrdg to The New York Tim, “they did not want to be intified as exclively sexual begs.”.

For the and other reasons, the term homosexual is wily nsired disparagg and offensive. Instead, the terms gay and lbian are generally preferred.

GAY'

Gay, on the other hand, n be ed to scribe a person of any genr who experienc same-sex attractn, although is most often ed to scribe a man who is attracted to men. The days, the term homosexual is typilly limed to medil ntexts, if ed at all. On June 28, 1969, the New York Cy police raid the Stonewall Inn, a bar equented by gay and genr-nonnformg people (at a time when terms like LGBTQ didn’t yet exist).

They attempted to arrt the gay and trans bar patrons, which started a seri of protts agast the police.

Partially rponse to Stonewall, 1970, queer activists New York Cy anized a march to Central Park wh the theme “Gay Pri.” A more prehensive history of the Stonewall Rt or the Stonewall Uprisg n be found our Pri Month explaer.

GAY "SIS": HOW LANGUAGE FRE US TO BE OURSELV

Trans activist Slyvia Rivera particular advoted for the more forceful slogan “Gay power.”. The term queer, like the term homosexual, has a b of a troubled history. However, unlike homosexual, has been wily reappropriated by the LGBTQ muny as a label.

Queer lerally means “strange or odd om a nventnal viewpot,” and by at least by the late 1800s, queer was ployed as a rogatory term for an effemate or gay man.

In 1990, this effort foced on queer as a llective term for gay and lbian people. Queer was seen as a way to refer to gays and lbians whout beg genr-sentialist or g divisns wh the muny.

39 BIBLE VERS ABOUT BEG GAY

We have already touched on the terms gay and lbian. homoromantic: a person who is romantilly attracted to people of the same sex or genr. A gay/bi term that means a guy is fortable beg eher the pcher or the tcher durg anal sex.

In gay termology, top to bottom.