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12 SLANG WORDS FOR GAY – USE THE TERMS TO ADDRS THEM!
* stem gay slang *
I've often felt isolated my bisexualy—tucked the space between two muni—not que gay and not que straight. Growg up North Carola as a non-passg gay boy, science served as a haven for me. It is very important to me bee I have the secury and the support my life to be out whout a signifint triment—no more than the average threat of physil vlence as an outwardly-prentg gay man.
What's really been neat is havg a genr exprsn that mov between mascule and feme as a gay man, and havg that prentatn occur the workplace as well as my personal life. I've gotten to share that experience particularly wh folks the queer muny whose genr exprsn is not of a bary, and have had amazg nversatns about what means to be a cisgenr gay man who, for example, wears lorful bobby ps to a work terview.
The partment uld have been homophobic, but really what mattered most was if my lab group [was]. JN: Along wh OSTEM, there's also Natnal Organizatn for Gay and Lbian Science Technil Profsnals (NOGLSTP).
GAY SLANG 101
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. 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. ” 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.