Knowg how to talk about inti of genr and sexualy is key to unrstandg LGBTQ+ experienc. Learn the distctns between "queer" and "gay."
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QUEER VS. GAY: HOW THE WORDS ARE DIFFERENT, AND WHY IT’S IMPORTANT
* meaning of gay g a y *
Is a backronym for gay standg for Good As You. It is meant to transform the historic e of gay as a slur to an exprsn of gay Pri. The term gay has referred to someone who exhibs sexual sire or behavr toward a person or persons of their same sex sce at least the 1930s.
Historilly, gay has been ed as an extremely offensive slur, eveng evolvg to a tch-all sult for “stupid” the 1980–90s. However, large part due to reclamatn by Gay Rights activists over the s, gay has sce bee a preferred term to refer to gay men—and preferred over homosexual, a term that wh a lot of paful baggage. Beg nakedly anti-gay is still a stance that might st you jobs, iends, and rpect 21st century society.
Pl Flynn’s 2017 book about gay Brish culture is tled Good As You: From Prejudice to Pri—30 Years of Gay Bra.
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Good As You has also been ed as a song tle, cludg by Eternal Summers 2012 and Sundrsed 2015, though the stanc are about heartache, not gay Pri.