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• WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN “GAY” AND “HOMOSEXUAL"? IS ONLY BY GENR?
• GAY
• ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN “GAY” AND “HOMOSEXUAL"? IS ONLY BY GENR?

The Enomist specifilly ced a pair of 13th and 14th-century poets, Rumi and Hafiz, who lived morn-day Iran and often wrote about homosexual relatnships. Use of a slur that targets trans people creased 53%, while stanc of an offensive term for homosexual men went up 39% over the yearly average. Billy Eichner, noted homosexual, found himself the target of some odd gossip when a clickba article toutg his relatnship wh Noelle star Anna Kendrick went viral.

Even his lifetime, this Pssian royal was wily mored to be a homosexual, though that term wouldn’t be ed till nearly 90 years after his ath.

When his roommate at the Naval Amy said jokgly last year that Andrew Atwill was a homosexual, the midshipman told him to cut out.

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Note: The adjective homosexual often appears formal wrg and medil wrg, but other suatns many people prefer to e the ls formal words gay or (for women) lbian. The Amerin Medil Associatn is agast therapy that is “based on the assumptn that homosexualy is a mental disorr or that the person should change their ’s important to know that there is nothg wrong wh lovg people of the same genr as you. Probably bee the word lbian exists as well, one is slightly more likely to refer to men when g the word gay; but note that is very often also ed for women.

When ed as a noun, gay seems to refer to men a b more often than as an adjective, although is still very often ed to refer to both men and women.

Bee homosexualy was long treated as a disease or at least as unsirable, some of this old negativy still clgs to the word homosexual, pecially as a noun. You will fd that most gays will maly e gay, except a scientific ntext; and even there, homosexual as a noun has bee almost impossible.

ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER

Anyway, gays took back the word "gay" bee was beg ed as a slur agast them, much like the n-word, much like the word faggot (and if you are unfaiar wh the rivatn of the word faggot, I suggt you n to your dictnary right now, sce is no where near as fortable as the rivatn of the word lbian).

Suffice to say that the word homosexual is an outdated term all but the most tached scientific wrg; that the word lbian appli strictly to women; and that the word gay n refer to both men and women, but ually refers to men. There are some who would argue that "homosexuals" are those who meet the clil fn of beg more attracted to members of the same sex than those of the oppose sex (given that most theori of sexual orientatn today dite that sexual orientatn is a ntuum, that heterosexualy and homosexualy are more than or ls than differenc rather than dichotomi).

Given the opprsn that has led to the "closet, " many people who are more homosexual than heterosexual do not and have never participated the gay liftyle or culture and may even be largely unaware of . Gay more monly refers to homosexual mal and lbian more monly refers to homosexual femal, although gay may be ed to scribe both homosexual mal and femal.

It tends to imply salcns bee the word SEX ss right there the middle--a sure attentn-grabber and an implitn that homoSEXuals are exclively ncerned wh SEXual gratifitn and have no "fay valu" whatsoever. Those who e hope others will perceive gays and lbians not as real human begs but rather as mdls, unthkg mach that n't ntrol their ltful sir. Those who always say "homosexual" are also beg as disrpectful as they n whout beg vulgar, arguably, by not g the terms most gays and lbian prefer.

Given to social pleasur, pecially at the expense of ser pursus: "You know she is gay, and wild, lov pany and mirth, and that was her impatience of rtrat the thgs, that ma the breach between her and her father" (Daniel Defoe). ]gay′ns Note: The word gay is now standard s e to refer to people whose sexual orientatn is to the same sex, large part bee is the term that most gay people prefer referrg to themselv.

Gay is generally nsired objectnable when ed as a noun to refer to particular dividuals, as There were two gays on the panel; here phrasg such as Two members of the panel were gay is preferable. But there is no objectn to the e of the noun the plural to refer llectively eher to gay men or to gay men and lbians, so long as is clear whether men alone or both men and women are beg discsed. 1685–1732, English poet and dramatist; thor of The Beggar's Opera (1728)Colls English Dictnary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edn 2014 © HarperColls Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014gay (geɪ) adj., -er, -t, n., adv.

A homosexual man n be referred to as a gays were worried about the new is sometim ed to scribe lours, plac, or piec of mic which make people feel cheerful bee they are bright or lively. ThsAntonymsRelated - someone who practic homosexualy; havg a sexual attractn to persons of the same sexhomo, homophile, homosexualdividual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human beg; "there was too much for one person to do"gay man - a homosexual mangay woman, triba - a female - bright and pleasant; promotg a feelg of cheer; "a cheery hello"; "a gay sunny room"; "a sunny se"cheery, sunnycheerful - beg full of or promotg cheer; havg or showg good spirs; "her cheerful nature"; "a cheerful greetg"; "a cheerful room"; "as cheerful as anyone nfed to a hospal bed uld be" - full of or showg high-spired merriment; "when hearts were young and gay"; "a poet uld not but be gay, such a jocund pany"- Wordsworth; "the jolly crowd at the rnn"; "jolly old Sat Nick"; "a jovial old gentleman"; "have a merry Christmas"; "peals of merry lghter"; "a mirthful lgh"jocund, jolly, jovial, merry, mirthfuljoyo - full of or characterized by joy; "felt a joyo abandon"; "joyo lghter" - given to social pleasur often cludg dissipatn; "led a gay Bohemian life"; "a gay old rogue wh an eye for the ladi"dulgent - characterized by or given to yieldg to the wish of someone; "dulgent grandparents" - brightly lored and showy; "girls cked out brave new drs"; "brave banners flyg"; "`braw' is a Sttish word"; "a drs a b too gay for her years"; "birds wh gay plumage"braw, bravelourful, lorful - strikg variety and tert; "a lorful perd of history"; "a lorful character"; "lorful language" - offerg fun and gaiety; "a ftive (or ftal) ocsn"; "gay and excg night life"; "a merry eveng"ftal, ftive, merryjoyo - full of or characterized by joy; "felt a joyo abandon"; "joyo lghter" - homosexual or arog homosexual sirhomophile, queerBased on WordNet 3.