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spoken word gay

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MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH

Brish poet Keh Jarrett was once asked at a gig if he had a "gay poem". "Exce me, poem, are you gay? Ellt Darrow asks the big qutn, "What if God was gay?

A history lson: A faggot is a bundle of sticksOrigally ed as kdlg for fir that engulfed gaysWhen they were burned at the stake, people were firewoodBut Mos me across wood on fire and saw God , What is a burng bh but bundl of branchOn fire, isn't funny how faggots and God n look the same sometim? Only sce the begng of the 20th century has queer been ed to refer to people who intify as gay or lbian.

Is "homosexual" still e? The standard fn of homosexual is “a person sexually attracted to people of one’s own sex.

THE FOTTEN SECRET LANGUAGE OF GAY MEN

” 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.

It’s not a gay liftyle. The word gay refers to a homosexual man, but origally meant “lighthearted, joyful, reee.

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