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Contents:
- THE GAY LETTERS : A CIVIL WAR RRPONNCE
- GAYBCS: A QUEER ALPHABET HARDVER – SEPTEMBER 18, 2018
- LETTERS TO THE EDOR: I’M GAY AND DON’T WANT TO PATRONIZE BIGOTS. THANKS, SUPREME COURT
- TOP 10 FASCATG GAY TEXTS FROM HISTORY
- GAY LERATURE: POETRY AND PROSEGAY LERATURE: POETRY AND PROSE
THE GAY LETTERS : A CIVIL WAR RRPONNCE
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GAYBCS: A QUEER ALPHABET HARDVER – SEPTEMBER 18, 2018
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LETTERS TO THE EDOR: I’M GAY AND DON’T WANT TO PATRONIZE BIGOTS. THANKS, SUPREME COURT
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TOP 10 FASCATG GAY TEXTS FROM HISTORY
Stay ahead of the trend fashn and beyond wh our ee weekly Liftyle Ed newsletterStay ahead of the trend fashn and beyond wh our ee weekly Liftyle Ed newsletter In October, people the US will observe LGBT+ history month, a perd durg which we reflect on and celebrate the history and achievements of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr month-long perd of observance, which is different than Pri Month June, was created 1994 by Missouri high school history teacher Rodney Wilson, the first openly gay public school teacher the state. It was also durg the mid-to-late 1980s that the language ed to refer to the gay muny changed, acrdg to PkNews, as the acronym LGB was first troduced, to refer to those who were lbians, gay or bisexual. Although not everyone the queer muny choos to subscribe to specific labels, this is the most monly ed list of terms to refer to non-hetero is an ialism for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr.
The acronym, which is often ed as a blanket term to refer to the queer muny, first beme popular the 1980s when replaced the term gay to reference all those who do not intify as has sce grown to LGBTTQQIAAP, to enpass numero other sexual and genr inti. As unrstandg about sexualy and sexual inty has grown, a fifth letter has been add to the acronym wh creasg Q often placed at the end of LGBT refers to queer or qutng, acrdg to the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr Communy Center.
As noted by the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer, Intersex, Asexual Rource Center (LGBTQIARC) at the Universy of California at Davis, which has built a glossary, there are numero other letters and terms e by the LGBT muny as reprent those who do not intify wh one of the letters the acronym, such as those who intify as pansexual, a pl sign is often ed.
GAY LERATURE: POETRY AND PROSEGAY LERATURE: POETRY AND PROSE
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