Chickens and otters and bears, oh my! Six typ of gay you should probably know before you Tweet

Contents:

• CHICKENS AND OTTERS AND BEARS, OH MY! SIX TYP OF GAY YOU SHOULD PROBABLY KNOW BEFORE YOU TWEET
• IS SEAL GAY?
• NAVY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY SEAL BUILDS HIS LIFE ANEW
• EXCLIVE: MY NAME IS BRETT JON, I AM A NAVY SEAL, AND I AM GAY
• NAVY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY SEAL REBUILDG HIS LIFE BIBLE BELT

CHICKENS AND OTTERS AND BEARS, OH MY! SIX TYP OF GAY YOU SHOULD PROBABLY KNOW BEFORE YOU TWEET

Pri, formerly known as Gay Pri, is a regnn of LGBTQ inty, affirmatn of equal rights, and celebratn of visibily, digny, and diversy the LGBTQ muny.

G: Gay. Why gay or lbian and not “homosexual”?

IS SEAL GAY?

While the word homosexual is still ocsnally ed some ntexts, you might have noticed that don’t make an appearance any versn of the LGBTQ acronym. As our age note on the term stat, “up until 1973, homosexualy was listed The Diagnostic and Statistil Manual of Mental Disorrs (DSM), psychiatry’s standard reference on the classifitn of mental illns. People aware of this former tegorizatn feel that the term homosexual still rri a negative nnotatn.

And many feel that this word plac undue emphasis on sexual activy, or that sounds overly clil.” In fact, the term homosexual was liberately rejected by early gay rights activists bee, acrdg to The New York Tim, “they did not want to be intified as exclively sexual begs.”. For the and other reasons, the term homosexual is wily nsired disparagg and offensive. Instead, the terms gay and lbian are generally preferred.

Gay, on the other hand, n be ed to scribe a person of any genr who experienc same-sex attractn, although is most often ed to scribe a man who is attracted to men.

NAVY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY SEAL BUILDS HIS LIFE ANEW

The days, the term homosexual is typilly limed to medil ntexts, if ed at all. On June 28, 1969, the New York Cy police raid the Stonewall Inn, a bar equented by gay and genr-nonnformg people (at a time when terms like LGBTQ didn’t yet exist). They attempted to arrt the gay and trans bar patrons, which started a seri of protts agast the police.

EXCLIVE: MY NAME IS BRETT JON, I AM A NAVY SEAL, AND I AM GAY

Partially rponse to Stonewall, 1970, queer activists New York Cy anized a march to Central Park wh the theme “Gay Pri.” A more prehensive history of the Stonewall Rt or the Stonewall Uprisg n be found our Pri Month explaer.

Trans activist Slyvia Rivera particular advoted for the more forceful slogan “Gay power.”.

The term queer, like the term homosexual, has a b of a troubled history. However, unlike homosexual, has been wily reappropriated by the LGBTQ muny as a label.

NAVY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY SEAL REBUILDG HIS LIFE BIBLE BELT

Queer lerally means “strange or odd om a nventnal viewpot,” and by at least by the late 1800s, queer was ployed as a rogatory term for an effemate or gay man. In 1990, this effort foced on queer as a llective term for gay and lbian people. Queer was seen as a way to refer to gays and lbians whout beg genr-sentialist or g divisns wh the muny.

We have already touched on the terms gay and lbian. homoromantic: a person who is romantilly attracted to people of the same sex or genr.

Homophobic Seal (also known as "Gay Seal") is a webic character that is known for s tchphrase "GAAAAAAYYYY. While speculative at bt, the seal's punchle bears siari to the le "Ha, Gayyyyy" shouted by Señor Ben Chang, a recurrg character the TV s seri Communy, an episo that aired on September 23rd, 2010.