Etymology of Gay - Orig of the word

Contents:

• GAY (ADJ.)
• GAY PRI
• GAY PRI
• US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT
• ETYMOLOGY OF GAY
• THE ORIGS OF THE WORD ‘GAY’

GAY (ADJ.)

One of the more recent shifts the word is ncerned wh the morn gay rights movement, which, if may be said to have origated wh any one event, is tied to the rt that occurred at the Stonewall Inn New York Cy on June 28th, 1969, which some 400 people protted the police raid of that tablishment. Issue 19 reach the stands on Monday June 29, the day after New York's mass Gay March and Gay In, ncludg a week's activi on Gay pri and liberatn. Liberatn Day the mtee will meet njunctn wh the Polil Affairs Submtee on Gay Pri Week, chaired by Barbara Glover.

At about the same time there is also evince of gay pri beg ed reference to a llective sense of self-worth, rather than tied to a specific event. Gay pri seems to be tchg, York Universy Toronto, Canada has an on mp anizatn, York Universy Homophile Associatn.

GAY PRI

Prr to pri beg associated wh the gay rights movement, was ocsnally found modified by Black or black, pecially durg the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Gay pri was eventually shortened to pri alone, and began to be ed as a shorthand for the events of LGBT Pri month, which is held June. The (cis, whe) gay man has always been at the centre of pri movements, but as people opened their mds to clu all LGBTQ+ inti the movement, the rabow flag creasgly solidified s posn as one that reprents the entire LGBTQ+ muny.Over time, mand grew for a flag that specifilly reprents gay men.

This 5-loured (and sometim 7-loured) gay men pri flag was signed  2019 by Tumblr er @gayflagblog, but wasn’t whout ntroversy.Accatns that the creator of the flag is transphobic, and that the sign was stolen om the sunset lbian flag, were rampant. However, those claims have sce been bunked, and the flag beme creasgly accepted wh the muny.Meang behd the lours:Turquoise to green lours reprent muny, healg, and joyWhe reprents genr nonnformg, non-bary, and transgenr folksBlue to purple lours reprent pure love, fortu, and diversyWhile the gay men’s pri flag is another lser known pri flag.

It featur different shas of green, blue and purple.This morn gay men’s pri flag is a revamp of an earlier gay men’s pri flag that featured a range of blue ton.

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That versn was problematic bee ed lors that were stereotypil of the genr bary.This updated flag is clive of a much wi ranger of gay men, cludg but not limed to transgenr, tersex, and genr nonnformg men. That versn was problematic bee ed lors that were stereotypil of the genr bary.This updated flag is clive of a much wi range of gay men, cludg but not limed to transgenr, tersex, and genr nonnformg men.The Reason a Flag is Need In The First PlaceThe rabow flag has always been the most popular flag for gay men to signify gay-ns and still is, even though this flag is gag some populary. Bee of the centrg of (cis, whe, rich) gay men general, due to our world’s generally patriarchal morn stcture, society’s image of the LGBT+ muny, the rabow flag om 1978 and s new 6 stripe form has often been mistakenly attributed to gay men particular, spe the rabow flag beg a liberately clive flag that clus all LGBT+ people.

So, for a while, gay men and lbians didn’t have popular, wily ed flags for our specific inti as gay men and lbians, though more flags started to be popularised for specific inti, such as bisexual, transgenr and asexual while prev lbian and gay male flags hadn’t achieved wispread e.

US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT

I thk this is jt people who mistakenly believe that this flag has big problems (that im gog to bunk this post) and are makg fun of bee of that, rather than the appearance of the flag beg their ma problem wh .‘‘ was ma by a *sert bad adjective here* person’‘A lot of people seem to believe that the @gayflagblog flag was ‘’ma by a tscum/misogynist/[sert bad active here’]’.

I thk should be on a se-by-se basis and based on whether you are actually perpetuatg those ias or providg mouflage for dangero movements by g the symbol, but lets talk about whether this objectn is based facts.@gayflagblog is an anonymo acunt that do not talk about issu that are not to do wh the flag, and specifilly has ma the flag clive of all gay men, which mak the accatns factually basels.Gay Flag Blog: Stripe meangs were spired by my rearch of LGBT history, my and others experienc as gay men, and the meangs on Gilbert Baker’s origal flag (which I love arly and hold close to my heart). This flag was ma for the entire muny and is modified and expand on based on muny n twter polls (thank you @kpower for dog that!) , your suggtns, and your ncerns!Acrdg to LGBTA Wiki: the flag is also known as the Vcian flag.Vcian is one of multiple terms ed to scribe gay men or men-aligned dividuals, meang a man, man-aligned or mascule-aligned dividual who is attracted to men, man-aligned or mascule-aligned dividuals. It is one of the most wily regnized alternativ to the term “gay men” and is often ed as the mascule equivalent of lbian (referrg to exclive attractn).

ETYMOLOGY OF GAY

It should be noted that not all non-bary dividuals feel fortable beg clud unr vcian attractn, and alternate labels such as toric or uranic are sometim ed.The term “gay” is ed as an adjective to scribe homosexualy, and is also often ed by the entire LGBT muny general. Some dividuals also argue that “gay” should jt mean homosexual men all together, due to the fact that gay women are referred to as lbian. Other dividuals simply refer to homosexual men as “gay men”.Other TermsAlthough vcian is generally the most monly seen term, many other proposed terms for gay men exist.

Alternate terms clu:Uranian: A historil term that is sometim ed to mean gay men.Turian or Veldian: Named after Alan Turg. Dcrib both gay men and gay (NBLM) non-bary dividuals.Floric: Named after Florence, the birthplace of Leonardo Da Vci, who is the namake of vcian. Is a term ed for non-woman attracted to non-women, clus and is sometim ed as a synonym for “gay men”.Patroclian or Patroclic: Com om the Greek story of Patrocl, who was thought to be a romantic partner of Achill (the orig of Achillean).[1] Many dividuals feel this term is too long and has too many syllabl.Hyacthe, Hyacthian, Hyacthi or Cthean: Based on Hyacth/Hyacth om Greek mythology.[2][3]Thamyrian or Thamyri: Based on Thamyris is Greek mythology, ced as “the first man to have loved another male”.[4][3]Carnatian: From the green rnatn flower, ed as a lapel Victorian tim to symbolize male homosexualy.[3]Viridian: Comg om viridi the Lat word for green, a lor often associated wh male homosexualy.

Vir also means man.[3]Casian: Based on the Lat sia meang “lavenr”.[5]Gayan: Has the same meang as “gay” “gay man” jt as “lbian” has “lbian woman”.[6]Magnian: Meant to honor Magn Hirschfeld.[7]HistoryVcian was ed by Tumblr er bivirgil on June 22, 2018.[8] The term was scribed as an alternative for achillean (implyg non-exclive attractn), but the creator also scribed the term as beg a word for gay men[9] (implyg exclive attractn). Some dividuals e as another word for gay men (exclive attractn).There are many flags that reprent gay men or vcians.In the mid-2010s, gay activist Valent Belyaev posted his versn of the gay man flag an iative group VKontakte to bat gayphobia (homophobia agast men)[10] and on Tumblr.[11] It later spread further on the ter and pecially spread the gay activist space.[12][13] This flag nsists of shas of azure and blue, symboliz the diversy of the gay muny and is an analog of the tradnal lbian flag, nsistg of shas of rose and red.The origal vcian flag was ma by Mod Hermy of the @ask-pri-lor-schem Tumblr blog 2017.[14][15] It was based on the lipstick lbian flag, which turn was plagiarized om a satiril ugar pri flag. This sign has been cricized for s stereotypil e of blue to reprent gay men terms of masculy.[16]Later 2019, the Tumblr Blog gayflagblog proposed a flag based off of the prr versn that addrsed the issu wh the old one by addg symbolic and historil meangs to each lor and stripe as well as allowg those the muny to offer put and propose their own chang.The top three strip reprent muny, healg, and joy.

THE ORIGS OF THE WORD ‘GAY’

The whe middle stripe is taken om the trans flag and reprents all trans, non-bary, and genr non-nformg vcians/gay men.

Furthermore, gay men have historilly ed green flowers and plants (rnatns, hyacths, etc.) The blue-to-purple gradient on the bottom of half the flag symboliz how some vcians might be stereotypil, some might not be, and some are -between or fluid.There are var versns of this flag, cludg five-stripe and six-stripe “simplified” flags as well as var lor eds to make the flag more purple wh warmer greens, have different shas of green to reprent the rnatn flower, and one that add the lor pk to the flag[17].