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Contents:
- IS LLG A HOMOSEXUAL PERSON “GAY” OFFENSIVE?
- 12 SLANG WORDS FOR GAY – USE THE TERMS TO ADDRS THEM!
- A HANDY GUI TO ALL GAY MEN
- THE FOTTEN SECRET LANGUAGE OF GAY MEN
IS LLG A HOMOSEXUAL PERSON “GAY” OFFENSIVE?
* gay derogatory *
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.
12 SLANG WORDS FOR GAY – USE THE TERMS TO ADDRS THEM!
” 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.
A HANDY GUI TO ALL GAY 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). Queer lerally means “strange or odd om a nventnal viewpot, ” and by at least by the late 1800s, queer was ployed as a rogatory term for an effemate or gay man.
Ally: A person who supports and rpects sexual diversy, acts acrdgly to challenge homophobic and heterosexist remarks and behavrs, and is willg to explore and unrstand the forms of bias wh themselv.
THE FOTTEN SECRET LANGUAGE OF GAY MEN
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