Gay Defn & Meang - Merriam-Webster

Contents:

• GAY
• GAY SPIRIT: MYTH AND MEANG

GAY

In the acronym LGBTQIA+ (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer/qutng, tersex, asexual/ally), the “+” acknowledg other inti that are not clud. The term Two-Spir origated 1990 by Myra Laramee (Cree) at the Third Annual Inter-tribal Native Amerin, First Natns, Gay and Lbian Amerin Conference Wnipeg. While Native people might e the terms gay, lbian, or transgenr, Two-Spir is a term created by Native people for Native people.

"Two-Spir" beme the morn term for this tribe member at the third annual tertribal Native Amerin/First Natns gay and lbian nference Wnipeg, Canada,  McLeod was one of the people at this nference. "Even wh our own muni, or our own trib, sometim we've had to al wh the homophobia and the transphobia, " says Mattee Jim of Albuquerque, New Mexi.

"Jt bee someone is digeno and gay do not mean they tomatilly intify as you're non-digeno and feel that your mascule and feme tras make you Two-Spir, thk aga.

GAY SPIRIT: MYTH AND MEANG

"That they're able to get their tn, whether that's middle school or high school to graduate wh a diploma, to go to universy if they wish, to have a reer, to have a fay of their own – to really crease the homophobia and transphobia that would prevent that.

Important:Ed Sheeran thought he was gay as a child: We need to talk about why. It origated at a 1990 nference for gay and lbian Native people to replace the hurtful, rogatory, lonial term berdache (French for a “young male kept for gay sex”), ed for genr-nonnformg dividuals.

It was like, ‘Wow, do that mean I am gay? It rived om the French word bardache meang "passive homosexual" or even "male prostut". Moreover, partners or spo of Two-Spir people are never referred to as beg "homosexual"[note 1], but jt typil members of the tribe.