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Contents:

• HOW TO ADDRS A MARRIED GAY COUPLE WH THE SAME LAST NAME
• “GAY” OR “HOMOSEXUAL”: THE WORDS WE E N DIVI PUBLIC OPN ON CIVIL RIGHTS
• CO WORDS FOR “GAY” IN CLASSIC FILMS

HOW TO ADDRS A MARRIED GAY COUPLE WH THE SAME LAST NAME

Feel ee to apply the l when you’re referrg to a married gay uple on thgs like weddg vatns, holiday rds, and letters. Addrs each member of a male married gay uple as “Mr.

All the l for addrsg a married gay uple wh the same last name apply whether they have chosen to e 1 last name or to e a hyphenated versn of both their last nam. There are general l you n follow, but not every gay uple has the same preference, so they might appreciate if you ask.

“GAY” OR “HOMOSEXUAL”: THE WORDS WE E N DIVI PUBLIC OPN ON CIVIL RIGHTS

Addrs each member of a female married gay uple as “Mrs. This uld apply anytime you're vg a married gay person you know to some kd of formal event and you're vg they're partner as a "pl 1. There are no l set stone about whose name you have to put first when you’re addrsg a gay uple.

CO WORDS FOR “GAY” IN CLASSIC FILMS

For example, one member of a gay married uple might intify as more feme and would th prefer to be lled Mrs. By the mid-20th century, nfirmed bachelor was beg ed as a phemism for “gay man.

” Amerin and Brish newspaper obuari at this time—when men largely remaed closeted due to stigmas agast homosexualy–ed language like never married or nfirmed bachelor stead of terms such as “homosexual. As naive kid, didn't realize stigma & meang of "nfirmed bachelor" #hugstomygayiends. Wrg for The Inpennt 1994, Helen Fieldg lamented the e of the word bachelor, both as a phemism for homosexualy and for shamg people’s cisn not to marry.

In a 2011 article for the magaze Out, edor Aaron Hickl explaed that terms like nfirmed bachelor imply that homosexualy is shameful—why else nceal ? 15 Old-Timey Nam for 'Gay'. Before 'gay' beme mon and accepted parlance, the world vented s own unofficial terms for men who dug men.