GAY - Slang/Inter Slang

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• 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 DO GAY STAND FOR?
• GAY
• WHAT DO GAY STAND FOR? 

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

Some lbians may prefer to intify as gay or as gay women. 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.

WHAT DO GAY STAND FOR?

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. 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.

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Time’s up Glov off You won’t like hearg , but GAY = #GoodAsYou & opposg #SSM is bigoted #LGBTI #EqualMarriage.

You know this untry gay stands for Good As You.

WHAT DO GAY STAND FOR? 

Rumors persist that good as you is the orig of g gay for a homosexual man or LGBTQ person more generally, but that’s bog etymology (à la golf g om Gents Only, Ladi Forbidn).

Stands for good at yoga, but the evince for this is lackg, not even on flyers for gay yoga class. 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. Instead, the terms gay and lbian are generally preferred.