This Amerin Psychologist reprt prents suggtns for avoidg heterosexual bias language ncerng lbians, gay men and bisexual persons.
Contents:
- IS LU A GAY METAPHOR?
- THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH: METAPHOR GAY SPEECH
- I'M SORRY, BUT "LU" IS TOTALLY A GAY MOVIE, AND THE 18 TWEETS PROVE IT
- GAY NEW YORK METAPHORS AND SI
- GAY MARRIAGE AS METAPHOR?
IS LU A GAY METAPHOR?
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The article suggts preferred termology and also prents ways of creasg the visibily of lbians, gay men, and bisexual persons language.
Comments were soliced om the Amerin Psychologil Associatns (APA's) Divisn 44 and om the Associatn of Lbian and Gay Psychologists. Problems occur language ncerng lbians, gay men, and bisexual persons when the language is too vague or the ncepts are poorly fed. Language may be ambiguo reference, so that the rear is uncerta about s meang or s cln and excln creria; and the term homosexualy has been associated the past wh viance, mental illns, and crimal behavr, and the negative stereotyp may be perpetuated by biased language.
The term sexual orientatn is preferred to sexual preference for psychologil wrg and refers to sexual and affectnal relatnships of lbian, gay, bisexual, and heterosexual people. The word preference suggts a gree of voluntary choice that is not necsarily reported by lbians and gay men and that has not been monstrated psychologil rearch. The terms lbian sexual orientatn, heterosexual sexual orientatn, gay male sexual orientatn, and bisexual sexual orientatn are preferable to lbianism, heterosexualy, homosexualy, and bisexualy.
THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH: METAPHOR GAY SPEECH
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Lbian and gay male are preferred to the word homosexual when ed as an adjective referrg to specific persons or groups, and the terms lbians and gay men are preferred to homosexuals ed as nouns when referrg to specific persons or groups. The terms gay male and lbian refer primarily to inti and to the morn culture and muni that have veloped among people who share those inti.
I'M SORRY, BUT "LU" IS TOTALLY A GAY MOVIE, AND THE 18 TWEETS PROVE IT
One persistent issue gay life general, and the medil treatment of LGBTQ patients more particularly, is that wispread tolerance leads people to nceal their sexual behavrs or inti, leadg to pletens or accuracy their histori and impairg the abily of their physicians to treat them. In English, a person ncealg his or her sexual inty is said to be “ the closet.” This phrase n tell que a b about the experience scrib. Let’s go through backwards, word by word. * is gay metaphor *
However, the terms may be ambiguo reference bee rears who are ed to the term lbian and gay may assume that gay refers to men only.
Likewise, is eful that women and men not be nsired "oppos" (as "oppose sex") to avoid polarizatn, and that heterosexual women and men not be viewed as oppose to lbians and gay men. For example, scriptns of sexual behavr among animal speci should be termed male-male sexual behavr or male-female sexual behavr rather than homosexual behavr or heterosexual behavr. Although may seem cumbersome at first, is cleart to e the term lbians, gay men, and bisexual women or men when referrg clively to members of the groups.
Lbians, gay men, and bisexual men and women often feel ignored by the general media, which take the heterosexual orientatn of their rears for granted. Maral stat per se is not a good ditor of habatn (married upl may be separated, unmarried upl may live together), sexual activy, or sexual orientatn (a person who is married may be a gay or lbian relatnship wh a partner).
GAY NEW YORK METAPHORS AND SI
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Furthermore, scribg people as eher married or sgle renrs lbians, gay men, and bisexual persons as well as heterosexual people habg relatnships visible. More appropriate parison groups might be "heterosexual women, " "heterosexual men and women, " or "gay men and heterosexual women and men.
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GAY MARRIAGE AS METAPHOR?
One persistent issue gay life general, and the medil treatment of LGBTQ patients more particularly, is that wispread tolerance leads people to nceal their sexual behavrs or inti, leadg to pletens or accuracy their histori and impairg the abily of their physicians to treat them. A person who is hidg the fact that they [sic] are gay has been scribed as the closet, or as a closet homosexual, sce the late 1960s. But the patient-physician relatnship, there is no reason why gay patients should not get the full participatn, regnn, and acceptance—the full measure of existence outsi the closet—they are entled to.
Gay is also an inty term ed to scribe a male-intified person who is attracted to other male-intified people a romantic, sexual, and/or emotnal sense.
Homophobia — Homophobia means to have an irratnal fear or tolerance of people who are homosexual or havg feelgs of homosexualy.