Gay Defn & Meang - Merriam-Webster

Contents:

• GAY
• IS LLG A HOMOSEXUAL PERSON “GAY” OFFENSIVE?
• UNRSTANDG GAY & LBIAN INTI
• WHAT IS THE NOUN FOR GAY?

GAY

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In May, the Temecula Valley Unified School District’s board voted 3 to 2 to reject a new curriculum that clud discsns on the gay rights movement and mentned Harvey Milk, the first out gay man elected to public office California.

IS LLG A HOMOSEXUAL PERSON “GAY” OFFENSIVE?

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UNRSTANDG GAY & LBIAN INTI

Sexual orientatns n clu heterosexual (straight), lbian, gay, bisexual, queer, asexual, and other orientatns. Avoid the offensive term “sexual preference, ” which is ed to accurately suggt that beg gay, lbian, or bisexual is voluntary and “curable. Transgenr people have sexual orientatns too, and they may be straight, lbian, gay, bisexual, queer, etc.

WHAT IS THE NOUN FOR GAY?

Avoid intifyg gay people as “homosexuals” an outdated term nsired rogatory and offensive to many lbian and gay people.