Knowg how to talk about inti of genr and sexualy is key to unrstandg LGBTQ+ experienc. Learn the distctns between "queer" and "gay."
Contents:
- WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN “GAY” AND “HOMOSEXUAL"? IS ONLY BY GENR?
- QUEER VS. GAY: HOW THE WORDS ARE DIFFERENT, AND WHY IT’S IMPORTANT
- “GAY” OR “HOMOSEXUAL”: THE WORDS WE E N DIVI PUBLIC OPN ON CIVIL RIGHTS
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN “GAY” AND “HOMOSEXUAL"? IS ONLY BY GENR?
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sirable "label, " and when Jtice Samuel Alo par gay marriage. However, when I checked Oxford English Dictnary, renrs “gay” as:. 1 (of a person, pecially a man) homosexual.
Relatg to or ed by homosexuals:. A homosexual, pecially a man. Also OALD f Gay as:.
QUEER VS. GAY: HOW THE WORDS ARE DIFFERENT, AND WHY IT’S IMPORTANT
] HOMOSEXUAL. Aren’t “gay” and “homosexual” the same thg except “gay” beg applied to men? What’s the difference between “gay” and “homosexual” other than genr attribut?
Both gay and homosexual n be ed for both sex, and they mean mostly the same thg; the differenc are subtle. Probably bee the word lbian exists as well, one is slightly more likely to refer to men when g the word gay; but note that is very often also ed for women. When ed as a noun, gay seems to refer to men a b more often than as an adjective, although is still very often ed to refer to both men and women.
The word homosexual seems to be pletely genr-ntral. Gay is more rmal: homosexual is more formal, and so is more likely to be ed e. As a nsequence, g homosexual n sometim sound a ltle b as if you were scribg patients, as if were some mental illns.
“GAY” OR “HOMOSEXUAL”: THE WORDS WE E N DIVI PUBLIC OPN ON CIVIL RIGHTS
It is stronger when ed as a noun (an homosexual, homosexuals). Note that gay is currently the procs of beg ed more formal ntexts too. The word homosexual is olr.
Bee homosexualy was long treated as a disease or at least as unsirable, some of this old negativy still clgs to the word homosexual, pecially as a noun. I thk this is also the reason why the word gay me to be ed (around the 1960s? ) to refer to homosexuals: they wanted a more posive-soundg word.