This Amerin Psychologist reprt prents suggtns for avoidg heterosexual bias language ncerng lbians, gay men and bisexual persons.
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PRI, GAY PRI
Some exampl of sexual orientatn are lbian, gay, heterosexual, straight, asexual, bisexual, queer, polysexual, and pansexual (also lled multisexual and omnisexual). For example, the adjective “gay” n be terpreted broadly, to clu all genrs, or more narrowly, to clu only men, so fe “gay” when you e your paper, or e the phrase “gay men” to clarify the age. By nventn, the term “lbians” is appropriate to e terchangeably wh “lbian women, ” but “gay men” or “gay people” should be ed, not “gays.
DO THE WORD GAY GET PALIZED?
Avoid the terms “homosexual” and “homosexualy. It is accurate to llapse the muni to the term “homosexual.
” Furthermore, the term “homosexualy” has been and ntu to be associated wh negative stereotyp, pathology, and the rctn of people’s inti to their sexual behavr. Homoprejudice, biprejudice, homonegativy, and so forth are terms ed to note prejudicial and discrimatory attus toward lbians, gay men, bisexual dividuals, or other sexual mori. The terms “straight” and “heterosexual” are both acceptable to e when referrg to people who are attracted to dividuals of another genr; the term “straight” may help move the lexin away om a dichotomy of heterosexual and homosexual.