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DO "GAY" NECSARILY MEAN MALE HOMOSEXUAL?
I was unr the imprsn that gay always refers to a male homosexual, though sometim I see this term ed to scribe female homosexuals (i. Gay n refer to men and women who are sexually attracted to people of the same sex, though lbian only refers to women who are so. I agree wh Jasper: In Salt Lake Cy, Utah, is not unmon to hear a woman scribg herself as gay.
At least North Ameri the term seems to be "LGBT" which do imply that they are rervg Gay for men only. Only sce the begng of the 20th century has queer been ed to refer to people who intify as gay or lbian. The standard fn of homosexual is “a person sexually attracted to people of one’s own sex.
” But, ’s typilly applied to men, and lbian is the term for a female homosexual. GLAAD prefers that we don’t e the term homosexual bee ’s “aggrsively ed by anti-gay extremists to suggt that gay people are somehow diseased or psychologilly/emotnally disorred. Bee suggts that beg lbian, gay, bisexual, or of another sexual orientatn is a choice and the person n be “cured.
UNRSTANDG GAY & LBIAN INTI
The word gay refers to a homosexual man, but origally meant “lighthearted, joyful, reee. In the LGBTQ muny, gay liftyle, as well as homosexual liftyle, are sometim owned upon. It’s OK to scribe someone you know who publicly self-intifi as gay, lbian, bisexual, or another sexual orientatn as out.
But never out someone, or expose their lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr inty, whout permissn.
But, people who are gay, lbian, bisexual, or transgenr also re about a wi variety of other polil, social, and cultural issu.