gay, adj. — Green’s Dictnary of Slang

Contents:

• GAY
• GAYADJECTIVE, ADVERB, & NOUN
• MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH
• IS “GAY” JT ANOTHER ADJECTIVE?
• GAY ADJACENT
• 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

GAY

Robson was an openly gay sger-songwrer who performed unr the name Jonty Dream, his iend Tenille Clarke wrote for Brish Vogue. 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.

GAYADJECTIVE, ADVERB, & NOUN

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.

Gayadjective, adverb, & nounThere are 31 meangs listed OED's entry for the word gay, ne of which are labelled obsolete, and one of which is nsired offensive. See ‘Meang & e’ for fns, age, and quotatn has veloped meangs and subjects cludg About 20occurrenc per ln words morn wrten English Earlit known eMiddle EnglishThe earlit known e of the word gay is the Middle English perd (1150—1500)'s earlit evince for gay is om around 1225, Ancrene is a borrowg om French. 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. 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.

MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH

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. 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.

Historilly ed to selectively persecute gay people, the state laws often referred to as “sodomy laws” were led unnstutnal by the U. 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.

IS “GAY” JT ANOTHER ADJECTIVE?

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.

GAY ADJACENT

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.

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

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. 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.

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. 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. But, people who are gay, lbian, bisexual, or transgenr also re about a wi variety of other polil, social, and cultural issu.

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. 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.

He told me he first realized the attractns when he was around twelve or thirteen and was then that he realized he mt be 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.