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Contents:

• AM I GAY?
• SPREAD OF MULTIDG-RISTANT SHIGELLA EU/EEA AMONG GAY, BISEXUAL AND OTHER MEN WHO HAVE SEX WH MEN
• E-CIGARETTE USE AND RISK BEHAVRS AMONG LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR ADULTS: THE BEHAVRAL RISK FACTOR SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM (BRFSS) SURVEY
• EASTERN EUROPE WAS ONCE A WORLD LEAR ON GAY RIGHTS. THEN RAN OUT OF SPEGOATS
• HOW GAY ARE YOU?
• ¿QUé TAN GAY ER?

AM I GAY?

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SPREAD OF MULTIDG-RISTANT SHIGELLA EU/EEA AMONG GAY, BISEXUAL AND OTHER MEN WHO HAVE SEX WH MEN

Why gay or lbian and not “homosexual”?

While the word homosexual is still ocsnally ed some ntexts, you might have noticed that don’t make an appearance any versn of the LGBTQ acronym. As our age note on the term stat, “up until 1973, homosexualy was listed The Diagnostic and Statistil Manual of Mental Disorrs (DSM), psychiatry’s standard reference on the classifitn of mental illns.

People aware of this former tegorizatn feel that the term homosexual still rri a negative nnotatn. And many feel that this word plac undue emphasis on sexual activy, or that sounds overly clil.” In fact, the term homosexual was liberately rejected by early gay rights activists bee, acrdg to The New York Tim, “they did not want to be intified as exclively sexual begs.”.

E-CIGARETTE USE AND RISK BEHAVRS AMONG LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR ADULTS: THE BEHAVRAL RISK FACTOR SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM (BRFSS) SURVEY

For the and other reasons, the term homosexual is wily nsired disparagg and offensive. Instead, the terms gay and lbian are generally preferred. Gay, on the other hand, n be ed to scribe a person of any genr who experienc same-sex attractn, although is most often ed to scribe a man who is attracted to men.

EASTERN EUROPE WAS ONCE A WORLD LEAR ON GAY RIGHTS. THEN RAN OUT OF SPEGOATS

The days, the term homosexual is typilly limed to medil ntexts, if ed at all. On June 28, 1969, the New York Cy police raid the Stonewall Inn, a bar equented by gay and genr-nonnformg people (at a time when terms like LGBTQ didn’t yet exist).

They attempted to arrt the gay and trans bar patrons, which started a seri of protts agast the police.

HOW GAY ARE YOU?

Partially rponse to Stonewall, 1970, queer activists New York Cy anized a march to Central Park wh the theme “Gay Pri.” A more prehensive history of the Stonewall Rt or the Stonewall Uprisg n be found our Pri Month explaer.

¿QUé TAN GAY ER?

Trans activist Slyvia Rivera particular advoted for the more forceful slogan “Gay power.”.

The term queer, like the term homosexual, has a b of a troubled history.

However, unlike homosexual, has been wily reappropriated by the LGBTQ muny as a label.