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'GAY GEEKS': AN ONLE UTOPIA FOR LGBTQ GAMERS, COMIC FANS AND TREKKI
We round up the 10 hottt new beki terms that will make your gay iends proud to ll you "bh". * geek gay term *
The Concise New Partridge Dictnary of Slang says the adjective “queer” began to mean “homosexual” about 1914, mostly the Uned Stat, and not was “rogatory om the outsi, not om wh, ” a ht that was beg embraced as a self-scriptn even then. ) The 1965 prtg of Webster’s New World Dictnary, College Edn, lists “queer, ” noun and adjective, as slang for homosexual. It lists “queer” this way: “[Slang] homosexual: general age, still chiefly a slang term of ntempt or risn, but lately ed as by some amics and homosexual activists as a scriptive term whout negative nnotatns.
The Dictnary of Amerin Slang says “ the early 1990s queer was adopted as a non-pejorative signatn by some homosexuals, the spir of ‘gay pri. Some sourc trace the first adoptn of “queer” as a posive self-label to the group Queer Natn, found the early 1990s as a radil anizatn to bat vlence agast homosexuals.
The New York Tim Manual of Style and Usage says: “queer, the sense of homosexual, should be treated as an offensive slur, but wh a limed exceptn. Origally a pejorative term for gay, now beg reclaimed by some gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr people as a self-affirmg umbrella term. 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.
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What started out as a small group of "gay geeks" Seattle has turned to a worldwi muny of 50,000 people. * geek gay term *
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.
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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. And many feel that this word plac undue emphasis on sexual activy, or that sounds overly clil.” 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.”.
Gay, on the other hand, n be ed to scribe a person of any genr who experienc same-sex attractn, although is most often ed to scribe a man who is attracted to men.
On June 28, 1969, the New York Cy police raid the Stonewall Inn, a bar equented by gay and genr-nonnformg people (at a time when terms like LGBTQ didn’t yet exist). Partially rponse to Stonewall, 1970, queer activists New York Cy anized a march to Central Park wh the theme “Gay Pri.” A more prehensive history of the Stonewall Rt or the Stonewall Uprisg n be found our Pri Month explaer.