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Contents:

• IS LLG A HOMOSEXUAL PERSON “GAY” OFFENSIVE?
• GAY OR EUROPEAN
• EASTERN EUROPE WAS ONCE A WORLD LEAR ON GAY RIGHTS. THEN RAN OUT OF SPEGOATS
• THE WORST COUNTRI TO BE GAY IN EUROPE
• EUROPE’S EPENG DIVI ON GAY RIGHTS
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS

IS LLG A HOMOSEXUAL PERSON “GAY” OFFENSIVE?

It's typilly preferred by those to whom appli over the term "homosexual", the technil nature of which mak this state of beg sound like a munible disease or mental illns (which, as recently as the DSM-II, seventh edn, was, tegorized as a pathologil phobia of the oppose sex). Many advocy groups, such as GLAAD (Gay/Lbian Associatn Agast Defamatn) and terms they promote for e the media (such as LGBT) rporate this term, though this isn't to say the terms will always be acceptable for this reason; the group name often persists long after the words behd them have fallen om favor, to avoid the nfn of a rebrandg of the group. "Queer", an old slang term for gay men, and "fag"/"faggot", origally AE slang for a wimp or unmanly person, but which me to be associated wh the stereotypil "swishy" gay man, have bee si terms; still appropriate when ed by a ntral party or a "straight" person, but acceptable ntext between gay men.

GAY OR EUROPEAN

The date was chosen to memorate the cisn to remove homosexualy om the Internatnal Classifitn of Diseas of the World Health Organizatn (WHO) 1990. In the spir of this day, let's take a look at the word "homosexual" to unrstand why is now nsired to be offensive. Same-sex attractn or “homosexualy” is the state of “beg sexually or romantilly attracted to people of one’s own sex.

” Gay, lbian, bisexual, and queer are the ma preferred terms to scribe people who are attracted to members of the same sex.

“Homosexualy” is no longer nsired to be a crime many untri, although some people still nsir to be a s. They say that gay sex is not the “normal” kd of sex, and that such sexual relatnships do not create a “normal” fay.

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

” The followg passag of Scripture are also voked to support the belief that gay sex is a s: 1 Samuel 18:1, 2 Samuel 1:26, Judg 19:22, Peter 2:6–10, 1 Kgs 14:24, 1 Kgs 15:12, Ju 1:7, Matthew 8, Le 7, 1 Timothy 1:8–10, Romans 1:18–32, and 1 Corthians 6. At the time, nam for people who engaged same-sex behavr already existed, cludg pairast, pallakos, kaidos, arrenoman, and paidophthoros, but the words are not ed, while malakoi and arsenokoai were never ed specifilly to refer to gay people. The English Standard Versn (2011) translat both malakoi and arsenokoai as “men who practice homosexualy”.

Do not be ceived: neher the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexualy, nor thiev, nor the greedy, nor dnkards, nor revilers, nor swdlers will her the kgdom of God.

However, the ncept of same-sex attractn as a sexual orientatn is relatively new, and the words “homosexual” and “homosexualy” did not emerge until 1869, when they were ed by Hungarian journalist Károli Mária Kertbeny. “Homosexualy” did not appear any Bible translatn until 1946, when the Revised Standard Versn of the Bible llapsed malakos and arsenokoai to one word: “homosexuals”.

THE WORST COUNTRI TO BE GAY IN EUROPE

The 1973 edn translat the words as “sexual perverts”, the Jesalem Bible “tam” and “sodom”, and the New Internatnal Versn (NIV) favors the terms “male prostut” and “homosexual offenrs. Through s associatn wh anti-gay attus, “homosexual” has acquired negative nnotatns of disapproval and judgment. The early gay rights movement was stead lled the “homophile movement” bee activists rejected the word “homosexual” and s negative implitns.

This plac an emphasis on sex, although for gay people, their sexualy is merely an attribute of their humany. “Homo” is often upled wh scriptors that portray same-sex attractn as somethg disgtg, unclean, or impure, such as dirty homo and filthy homo.

Same-sex-oriented people chew the e of “homosexual” as a self-intifyg label, stead referrg to themselv by a range of preferred terms, most monly “gay”, “lbian”, “bisexual”, or “queer”. This theory held that “homosexualy” had a psychologil or physlogil basis, such as a trma to the bra, sexual abe, havg had a domant oppose-genr parent, or absent same-genr parent.

EUROPE’S EPENG DIVI ON GAY RIGHTS

The ia that “homosexualy” had a e led to the belief that uld be “cured” by psychiatrists, psychologists, or physicians. Durg the Holot, thoands of gay men were imprisoned Nazi ncentratn mps, while some were experimented upon an effort to “cure” their sexualy. It was not until 1973 that the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn removed the diagnosis of “homosexualy” om s list of mental disorrs the send edn of s Diagnostic and Statistil Manual (DSM).

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS

Given the word's load past, 's clear to see why "homosexual" is now perceived as a homophobic term that is chewed by stakeholrs and their alli. People ed to ask that about a man who didn’t f the Amerin image of manhood: “Is he gay, or is he European? When the kids say “That’s so gay, ” they may not be thkg about their LGBT iends, but they are certaly thkg that whatever “gay” means, go agast Amerin genr-trag.

The spot, tled “Come As You Are, ” shows a young gay man eatg McDonald’s wh his father, who don’t know his son is gay.

We’re very fortable wh the topic of homosexualy, there is obvly no problem wh homosexualy France today.