Gay Defn & Meang - Merriam-Webster

Contents:

• TRA (GAY SLANG)
• GAY TRA
• 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
• GAY
• NBA RUMORS: JAM HARN TRA TALKS, JOEL EMBIID, PJ TUCKER, RUDY GAY, LAKERS, WARRRS, BUCKS, MORE

TRA (GAY SLANG)

A young hyper-mascule lookg gay man, ually black or lato urban ntexts. The term "tra" origated om the notn that the men were only gay for pay-- th they would "tra" sex for money. In recent years, the term has e to refer to any gay men of lor who drs hip-hop spired clothg and play to the masc fetish.

A theoretilly straight man who lik to "s back and get serviced" by gay/bi men, wh ltle or no sexual reciprotn. : gay men who are or affect to be gged and potentially vlent.

GAY TRA

also: such a gay person.

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

Tra (also known as Chow) is a gay slang term origatg om Polari and refers to the (ually) sual partner of a gay man or to the genre of such pairgs. Men fallg the tegory of "tra" are not gay-intified.

GAY

Historilly the motivatns may at tim clu a sire for emotnal fulfillment and admiratn, but the term often refers to a straight man who partners wh a gay man for enomic benef, eher through a direct sh payment or through other, more subtle means (gifts, tun payments, etc.

Tra origally referred to sual sex partners, regardls of sexualy as many gay and bisexual men were closeted, but evolved to imply the gay partner is paratively wealthy and the partner who is tra is enomilly prived. Often the attractn for the gay male partner is fdg a dangero, even thuggish, partner who may turn vlent. 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.

G: Gay. Why gay or lbian and not “homosexual”?

NBA RUMORS: JAM HARN TRA TALKS, JOEL EMBIID, PJ TUCKER, RUDY GAY, LAKERS, WARRRS, BUCKS, MORE

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.

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.

The days, the term homosexual is typilly limed to medil ntexts, if ed at all.