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Contents:

• HERE'S WHY HUFFPOST GAY VOIC JT CHANGED ITS NAME TO HUFFPOST QUEER VOIC
• HUFFPOST GAY VOIC REBRANDS TO MORE INCLIVE HUFFPOST QUEER VOIC
• HUFFPOST GAY VOIC DEBUTS
• HEAR HEAR! OUR VOIC ARE MORE THAN GAY VOIC
• GAY VOIC
• GAY VOIC
• SIGNORILE TO HUFFPOST'S 'GAY VOIC'
• HUFFPOST GAY VOIC IS NOW QUEER VOIC
• HUFFGTON POST GAY VOIC NAM EDOR-AT-LARGE
• HUFFPOST GAY VOIC DEBUTS
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH COACH COM OUT AS GAY IN A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH COACH COM OUT AS GAY IN A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU

HERE'S WHY HUFFPOST GAY VOIC JT CHANGED ITS NAME TO HUFFPOST QUEER VOIC

Today, for the very first time, we're thrilled to wele you to HuffPost Queer name change four-and-a-half years after we origally buted as HuffPost Gay Voic -- and after untls nversatns wh untls people, both si and outsi of the HuffPost I've had my own love affair wh the word "queer" for as long as I n remember (more on that a mute), at the time of our lnch 2011 some people felt that the term was too ntroversial, too divisive and, bee of s history as a slur, perhaps jt too paful to e. Instead, we settled on HuffPost Gay Voic (you n read more about how that cisn was reached here). "Queer" functns as an umbrella term that clus not only the lbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenr people of "LGBT, " but also those whose inti fall between, outsi of or stretch beyond those tegori, cludg genrqueer people, tersex people, asexual people, pansexual people, polyamoro people and those qutng their sexualy or genr, to name jt a few.

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"Historilly, the term "queer" has often been ed as a rogatory slur agast gay men, but as Michelson pots out, the word was reclaimed recent s as a way to intify and unify all people who fall wh the LGBT spectm. The Huffgton Post has lnched Gay Voic, another “vertil” (their term for a specific sectn of the se) their seemgly ever-growg list (Black Voic, Lato Voic, etc.

HUFFPOST GAY VOIC REBRANDS TO MORE INCLIVE HUFFPOST QUEER VOIC

) servg ntent by er his gural post welg rears, Gay Voic edor Noah Michelson addrs the ratnale for the se and s name:While the Huffgton Post has done an credible job of verg queer stori the past, Gay Voic will provi a place for all of those stori to “live” together, thereby makg much easier for rears to fd, share and discs queer topics...

Brgs to the term “gay” and why we chose the name Gay Voic... While most often scrib a “male homosexual, ” “gay” has been and n be ed by (and to refer to) those wh other margalized sexual inti.

I fully nce the term may not be one everyone feels fortable claimg or wants to be associated wh (pecially when to issu of genr rather than sexualy), but after realizg that there was never gog to be the perfect term for to e, we felt that “gay” packs the most stantaneo punch and immediately intifi the ntent on this vertil as alg wh the typ of issu and argument that “gay” is still the clost we have to a universally acceptable word to scribe LGBT people is not new.

HUFFPOST GAY VOIC DEBUTS

The qutn I have om the above ratnale is: Has the word “gay” really e full circle? Well, Gay Voic seems to thk so.

HEAR HEAR! OUR VOIC ARE MORE THAN GAY VOIC

Not sure if that will ntue, but the ma article today on the Gay Voic homepage about HIV gave me some hope. Let’s hope Gay Voic keeps HIV/AIDS stori high the mix.

To those who don't feel that "queer" scrib them like "gay" do -- wele to how most of the LGBT+ muny feels. There is no perfect term for all of (we are too wonrfully diverse for that) but "gay" is about as far om clive as you n get and I'm glad Huffgton Post Queer Voic ma the change like so many other anizatns have LGBT+ people aren't gay.

GAY VOIC

So how would you feel to wre for Bisexual Voic when you are gay?

GAY VOIC

That's how bi bloggers have felt wrg for Gay Voic. We shouldn't be Bi Voic or Trans Voic any more than we should be Gay of anizatns have had to change their nam wh the tim. Forty years ago most of the groups that were named "Gay and Lbian ____" now go by "LGBT _____" like the Gay and Lbian Communy Center of Los Angel that is now the Los Angel LGBT Center or the Natnal LGBTQ Task Force that was found as the Natnal Gay Task Force and then was the Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force for a few s.

SIGNORILE TO HUFFPOST'S 'GAY VOIC'

"Gay" don't beg to scribe that diversy. We've had nam for over a century the Wtern English-speakg world - homosexual, homophile, transvte, hermaphrode. It isn't as much that there is a change or that the change is away om the word "gay" as is that the change is to the ntroversial word "queer.

" The pk triangle symbol is a pri symbol that started as a way to brand homosexuals ncentratn mps (the black triangle too is a lbian pri symbol wh siar history). How about when we protted homosexualy beg classified as an illns by llg gay to work?

HUFFPOST GAY VOIC IS NOW QUEER VOIC

We n't keep gog om "Gay" to "Gay and Lbian" to "Gay, Lbian, and Bisexual" to "Gay, Lbian, Bisexual, and Transgenr" to "LGBT" to "LGBTQ" to "LGBTQIA...

HUFFGTON POST GAY VOIC NAM EDOR-AT-LARGE

Rabow shi away om proudly stayg at the cuttg edge of our lguistic shouldn't keep fltg to what mak gay cis men fortable. Language is fluid and no sgle word is gog to work for everybody, but this word seems to work for more people than gay do, pecially those who have been told to wa their turn bee gay issu are gog to be put above other LGBT+ issu.

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HUFFPOST GAY VOIC DEBUTS

HuffPost Gay Voic has unrgone a socially relevant and important name change; om now on, the popular LGBT news source will go by HuffPost Queer Voic. "He also not the clivy of the word:"'Queer' functns as an umbrella term that clus not only the lbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenr people of 'LGBT, ' but also those whose inti fall between, outsi of or stretch beyond those tegori, cludg genrqueer people, tersex people, asexual people, pansexual people, polyamoro people and those qutng their sexualy or genr, to name jt a few. 11 People Who Are Totally Overreactg About Gay Marriage.

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