A gui ncerng gay, lbian LGBTQI vobulary: words, idms, exprsns, llotns on gay issu.
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Although Lbian, Gay, Bi, Trans, and Queer (LGBTQ+) people have been around for lennia, the evolutn of language means that those wh the muny ntue to fd more clive and accurate terms to bt scribe themselv, as Stonewall’s ever-evolvg glossary of terms prov. Aromantic people are also the ace tegory and, siarly to asexual people, may intify as gay, lbian, heterosexual, or queer to fe the directn of their attractn to others.
Homosexual: This antiquated term was ed historilly to refer to people who were attracted to people of the same genr, but ’s rarely ed today. ” Beg trans or transgenr is unnnected to sexual orientatn, so a trans person may intify as gay, straight, lbian, or whatever is right for them the same way a cisgenr person would. Transsexual: Like “homosexual, ” “transsexual” is largely an outdated, historil term ed to refer to someone whose genr is different om what they were assigned at birth.
Pri, formerly known as Gay Pri, is a regnn of LGBTQ inty, affirmatn of equal rights, and celebratn of visibily, digny, and diversy the LGBTQ muny. 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.
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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.”. 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. 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).
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. Queer lerally means “strange or odd om a nventnal viewpot,” and by at least by the late 1800s, queer was ployed as a rogatory term for an effemate or gay man.
Often nflated wh sexual attractn, romantic attractn, and/or spirual (got) – noun: rogatory term referrg to a gay person, or someone perceived as queer. This [medil] term is nsired stigmatizg (particularly as a noun) due to s history as a tegory of mental illns, and is disuraged for mon e (e gay or lbian stead).
VOBULARY FOR DISCSG GAY, LGBT ISSU
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LGBTQ is Lbian Gay Bisexual Transgenr and Queer and/or Qutng (sometim people at a + at the end an effort to be more clive); GSM is Genr and Sexual Mori; DSG is Diverse Sexuali and Genrs. Other optns clu the ialism GLBT or LGBT and the acronym QUILTBAG (Queer [or Qutng] Uncid Intersex Lbian Trans* Bisexual Asexual [or Allied] and Gay [or Genrqueer]). Avoid intifyg gay people as “homosexuals” an outdated term nsired rogatory and offensive to many lbian and gay Exprsn - Refers to how an dividual exprs their socially nstcted genr.
LGBTQQIA - An acronym ed to refer to all sexual mori: “Lbian, Gay/Genr Ntral/Genr Queer, Bisexual/Bigenr, Transgenr/Transvte/Transsexual, Qutng/Queer, Intersex, and Alli/Androgyno/Asexual. ”Liftyle - (see Offensive Terms to Avoid) Inaccurate term ed by anti-gay extremists to nigrate lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr liv. As there is no one straight liftyle, there is no one lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr Lovg Men (MLM) - Commonly ed by muni of lor to note the attractn of men to Who Have Sex wh Men - men, cludg those who do not intify themselv as homosexual or bisexual, who engage sexual activy wh other men (ed public health ntexts to avoid excludg men who intify as heterosexual) Gay - Dcrib people who self-intify as lbian or gay their personal, public and/or profsnal liv.
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Qutng - The procs of nsirg or explorg one’s sexual orientatn and/or genr Orientatn - The scientifilly accurate term for an dividual’s endurg physil, romantic and/or emotnal attractn to members of the same and/or oppose sex, cludg lbian, gay, bisexual and heterosexual (straight) orientatns.
Avoid the offensive term “sexual preference, ” which is ed to suggt that beg gay or lbian is voluntary and therefore “curable. For example, a man who transns om male to female and is attracted to other women would be intified as a lbian or a gay woman.
Bee of the clil history of the word “homosexual, ” is aggrsively ed by anti-gay extremists to suggt that gay people are somehow diseased or psychologilly/emotnally disorred – notns discreded by the Amerin Psychologil Associatn and the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn the 1970s. Intifyg a same-sex uple as “a homosexual uple, ” characterizg their relatnship as “a homosexual relatnship, ” or intifyg their timacy as “homosexual sex” is extremely offensive and should be a le, try to avoid labelg an activy, emotn or relatnship “gay, ” “lbian” or “bisexual” unls you would ll the same activy, emotn or relatnship “straight” if engaged by someone of another orientatn.