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Contents:

• MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH
• GAY
• MEANG OF GAY – LEARNER’S DICTNARY
• IS “GAY” JT ANOTHER ADJECTIVE?
• SYNONYMS OF GAY
• ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER
• DEFN OF GAY – LEARNER’S DICTNARY
• GAY OR A GAY / AMERIN OR AN AMERIN
• SENTENC WH GAY
• TRANSLATN OF GAY – ENGLISH–PORTUGUE DICTNARY

MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH

In terviews at the time, Ileana ced both Rodrigo and his sister — along wh shiftg views her district — as fluenc on her evolutn on gay rights. In May, the Temecula Valley Unified School District’s board voted 3 to 2 to reject a new curriculum that clud discsns on the gay rights movement and mentned Harvey Milk, the first out gay man elected to public office California. That same year, Pieters beme a natnal spokperson for AIDS awarens and gay polil activism after his historic terview wh televangelist Tammy Faye on her broadst, which fied the work's homophobic tennci.

Avoid the offensive term “sexual preference, ” which is ed to accurately suggt that beg gay, lbian, or bisexual is voluntary and “curable.

Typilly, for those who intify as queer, the terms lbian, gay, and bisexual are perceived to be too limg and/or ght wh cultural nnotatns they feel do not apply to them.

GAY

Also known as SGL, this is a term ed by some Ain Amerin people as an Aocentric alternative to what are nsired Eurocentric, or whe, inti like gay and lbian. Biphobia may be exprsed ments that reflect doubts about the legimacy of bisexualy as an orientatn, accurately implyg that is not real, “jt a phase” or a ver for someone not ready to e out as gay.

MEANG OF GAY – LEARNER’S DICTNARY

Note, the terms “gay marriage” and “same-sex marriage” should be avoid, as they n suggt marriage for same-sex upl is somehow different or ls equal than other marriag. Bee of the clil history of the word “homosexual, ” is aggrsively ed by anti-LGBTQ activists to suggt that people attracted to the same sex are somehow diseased or psychologilly/emotnally disorred – notns discreded by the Amerin Psychologil Associatn and the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn the 1970s. Use gay, lbian, or when appropriate, bisexual, pansexual, or queer to scribe people attracted to people of the same genr or more than one genr.

Intifyg a same-sex uple as “a homosexual uple, ” characterizg their relatnship as “a homosexual relatnship, ” or intifyg their timacy as “homosexual sex” should be avoid. As a le, try to avoid labelg an activy, emotn, or relatnship gay, lbian, bisexual, or queer unls you would ll the same activy, emotn, or relatnship “straight” if engaged by someone of another orientatn.

Sexual orientatn is the accurate scriptn of an person’s endurg physil, romantic, and/or emotnal attractn to people of the same genr and/or people of a different genr, and is clive of people who are lbian, gay, bisexual, queer, and pansexual, as well as straight people. The phras “gay liftyle, ” “LGBTQ liftyle, ” “homosexual liftyle, ” and “transgenr liftyle” are ed to nigrate LGBTQ people by accurately suggtg that their sexual orientatn and/or genr inty is a choice and therefore n and should be “cured” or “changed.

IS “GAY” JT ANOTHER ADJECTIVE?

Anti-LGBTQ Terms Mastream Media Should Avoid“fag, ” “faggot, ” “dyke, ” “homo, ” “sodome, ” and siar ephetsWhile some the muny have reclaimed and e the words to scribe themselv, the creria for mastream news media g the rogatory terms should be the same as those applied to vulgar ephets ed to target other groups: they should not be ed except a direct quote that reveals the bias of the person quoted or if a LGBTQ person the term to scribe themself.

SYNONYMS OF GAY

So that such words are not given credibily the media, is preferred that reporters say, “The person ed a rogatory word for a lbian/gay/bisexual/transgenr/queer person” except when a LGBTQ person the term to scribe themself. Adjective, gay·er, gay·, relatg to, or beg a person who is sexually or romantilly attracted to people of their own sex or genr: A gay uple strolled by on the, relatg to, or beg a person who is sexually or romantilly attracted only to people of their own sex or genr: Gay and bisexual men are both discsed this, ditg, or supportg terts or issu pertag to gay people or the gay muny: He giv charable ntributns to a gay anizatn.

Appropriately forward or bold; overly faiar; reckls: Gee got gay at the Christmas party and sudnly swept his boss's wife onto the dance floor.

ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER

A person, pecially a man, who is sexually or romantilly attracted exclively to people of the same sex or of gay1First rerd 1275–1325; Middle English gai, om Old French “happy, cheerful, ” om Germanic; pare Old High German gāhi “fast, sudn”age alert For gayThe sexual orientatn meang of the word gay has bee so predomant that people hate to e the term s origal sens of “merry, lively” and “bright or showy.

After World War II, as social attus toward sexualy began to change, gay was applied openly by gay men to themselv, first as an adjective and later as a noun. Age note For gayWords like gay and lbian are often ed as umbrella terms scribg anyone who experienc same-genr attractn, and also as more specific labels. Umbrella age, as gay marriage or lbian uple, typilly refers to any same-genr pairg, or to any person who is attracted to people of their own genr.

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DEFN OF GAY – LEARNER’S DICTNARY

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In the current bate about the wisdom of the proposals beg ma by those who ll themselv “gay celibate Christians, ” many fd a problem wh their self-intifitn as beg gay, lbian, bisexual, queer or anythg other than their God given male or female natur.

The ual rponse they give to their crics is that those who cricize them simply don’t unrstand what they are sayg when they say “I am gay.

GAY OR A GAY / AMERIN OR AN AMERIN

Ron Belg, one of the blog’s founrs recently rpond to those cril of their e of the phrase “gay” about themselv an say lled “What Is ‘Gay’? Belg quot another of their thors, Chris Damian, who tri to make the same pot by givg a list of all sorts of thgs we might e to scribe ourselv, as if those cril of anyone sayg “I am gay” don’t unrstand the way language works:.

I am a man; I am Amerin; I am sgle; I am 5’10”; I am hungry; I am tired: I am happy: I am sad; I am stud; I am foolish; I am fallen; I am sful; I am hopeful; I am quisive; and I am gay.

SENTENC WH GAY

The homoerotic attractns I had been nsc of sce wakg up to the strange new universe of sexualy remaed so nstant and unbroken that I me to realize I was experiencg what was ually lled “homosexualy.

Unlike Wley Hill, or my 24-year-old iend, this woman had no ncept or awarens of the tegory of a “gay” person, or of “beg a lbian” or a “bisexual.

Is her salvatn found the thkg of “gay celibate Christians”: accept your sense of your own sexualy, and embrace some sort of myster good gifts brgs you that are unavailable to “straight” people—but jt be sure to realize that ’s the “havg sex” that is the problem? This, then is the cx of the problem: Those who ll themselv “gay celibate Christians” are not livg acrdance wh the profound tth of their beg. It is good that the wrers have embraced and promote sexual ntence, but their notn of “gay celibacy” is far too meager a visn of what human eedom and flourishg is all about.

TRANSLATN OF GAY – ENGLISH–PORTUGUE DICTNARY

The standard fn of homosexual is “a person sexually attracted to people of one’s own sex.” 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.” You won’t offend anyone if you e the term sexual orientatn or jt orientatn though. The word gay refers to a homosexual man, but origally meant “lighthearted, joyful, reee.” Gay as an adjective meang “homosexual” go back at least to the 1930s. A drag queen is “a man who, for enjoyment or performance, prefers to drs women’s clothg.” They are often gay but n be a man of any sexual orientatn.

The Enomist specifilly ced a pair of 13th and 14th-century poets, Rumi and Hafiz, who lived morn-day Iran and often wrote about homosexual relatnships. Use of a slur that targets trans people creased 53%, while stanc of an offensive term for homosexual men went up 39% over the yearly average.

Billy Eichner, noted homosexual, found himself the target of some odd gossip when a clickba article toutg his relatnship wh Noelle star Anna Kendrick went viral.

Even his lifetime, this Pssian royal was wily mored to be a homosexual, though that term wouldn’t be ed till nearly 90 years after his ath.

Sexual orientatn refers to the endurg physil, romantic and/or emotnal attractn to members of the same and/or other genrs, cludg lbian, gay, bisexual and straight orientatns. ◊ When the noun gay is ed to refer to a specific person or specific people phras such as the thor is a gay or they are both gays, is often nsired offensive. 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.