Gay is a Verb - Tenser, said the Tensor

Contents:

• GAY
• THE SOLUTN TO "GAY" INSULTS: FREEDOM OF SPEECH
• HOW TO E GAY A SENTENCE
• MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH
• WOULD BE A MISTAKE TO E THE WORD "GAY" BS OR AMIL WRGS? [DUPLITE]
• ENGLISH: GAY
• THE 'GAY' WORD: WHAT DO MEAN WHEN YOUNG PEOPLE E NEGATIVELY?
• UNGAY

GAY

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. The term homosexual is nsired stigmatizg (particularly as a noun) due to s history as a tegory of mental illns, and is disuraged for mon e (e gay or lbian stead).

LGBTQIA is Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer/Qutng, Intersex, and Asexual/Agenr/Aromantic (sometim wh a + at the end an effort to be more clive); GSM is Genr and Sexual Mori; DSG is Diverse Sexuali and Genrs. Other optns clu the ialism GLBT, LGBT or LGBTQ and the acronym QUILTBAG (Queer/Qutng Uncid Intersex Lbian Trans Bisexual Asexual/Allied and Gay/Genrqueer).

G., gay, straight, bi) are generally based on the relatnship between the person’s genr and the genrs they are attracted to, trans sexualy n be fed a uple of ways. Some people may choose to self-intify as straight, gay, bi, lbian, or pansexual (or others, g their genr inty as a basis), or they might scribe their sexualy g other-foced terms like gynexual, androsexual, or skolsexual (see full list for fns for the terms. Geoff Pullum (after droppg the bombshell that he's movg to Edburgh) recently wrote about the mayor of Wt Sacramento's announcement that he "want[s] to start thkg of gay as a verb and not jt a noun".

THE SOLUTN TO "GAY" INSULTS: FREEDOM OF SPEECH

Pullum, himself no slouch the grammar partment, reacts by potg out:The lguistic fact, by the way, is that gay is primarily an adjective, though jt like the adjective homosexual has a sendary e as a unt noun referrg to a person who has the property qutn. The Concise New Partridge Dictnary of Slang says the adjective “queer” began to mean “homosexual” about 1914, mostly the Uned Stat, and not was “rogatory om the outsi, not om wh, ” a ht that was beg embraced as a self-scriptn even then. It lists “queer” this way: “[Slang] homosexual: general age, still chiefly a slang term of ntempt or risn, but lately ed as by some amics and homosexual activists as a scriptive term whout negative nnotatns.

Some sourc trace the first adoptn of “queer” as a posive self-label to the group Queer Natn, found the early 1990s as a radil anizatn to bat vlence agast homosexuals. Billy Eichner, noted homosexual, found himself the target of some odd gossip when a clickba article toutg his relatnship wh Noelle star Anna Kendrick went viral.

Smh As a great al of queer history has by now monstrated, the strictly fed tegori of "homosexual" and "heterosexual" are relatively new: bright l drawn across the late-20th-century sexual landspe that ma "g out" a dichotomo choice. Through terviews, mappg, and an examatn of lol history and prent velopments, this paper nclus that gays, lbians and other members of the queer muny often create the liberatg social spac that attract further settlement by "non-nformists. And knowledge of [his inty as a gay man] opens a path to nsir how and to what gree his art queered—to e a term om amic theory—received versns of Amerin culture: qutned their validy, revealed their ntradictns, turned them si out.

HOW TO E GAY A SENTENCE

A word that origally meant happy and reee beme a ntral label to scribe homosexualy, and end up beg a term ed to ppot somethg people don’t like, fd embarrassg, or want to distance themselv do this mean that young people are more homophobic than ever before? “The problem wh sayg ‘that’s so gay’ is that even though you and your iends might know you’re not beg homophobic, if you’re g a public or semi-public space, other people might see you as homophobic, ” he jt my stunt overdraft as my budget, I cid to make a documentary explorg how this piece of language had evolved, and speak to people both gay and straight to see how they felt aboutthe word takg on a negative gay people I spoke to were ntent wh the word evolvg, while there were straight people who were outraged. Younger people, whom we might have expected to have more awarens of what means to intify as gay bee of media verage, were often the mographic fendg the negative e of this olr people I spoke to felt strongly that should not be allowed to be ed negatively.

Equal marriage legislatn may suggt that society has advanced s thkg, but there remas a gap s grasp of gay inty, culture and the week leadg up to the premiere of my documentary, The Gay Word, s trailer was shown a London cema. Staff noticed how the dience’s body language often shifted and beme awkward on jt seeg the word gay projected on Soho, I hand out stickers promotg the film and reactns were mixed.

One sendary school teacher told me staff often “turn a bld eye” to behavur that may be makg gay pupils feel unfortable at young people I met while makg this film told me that school is tough and not a place they n flourish. The Amerin Medil Associatn is agast therapy that is “based on the assumptn that homosexualy is a mental disorr or that the person should change their ’s important to know that there is nothg wrong wh lovg people of the same genr as you. ” 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.

MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH

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. 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”.

WOULD BE A MISTAKE TO E THE WORD "GAY" BS OR AMIL WRGS? [DUPLITE]

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.

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.

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).

ENGLISH: GAY

From Middle English gay, om Old French gai (“joyful, lghg, merry”), ually thought to be a borrowg of Old Occan gai (“impetuo, lively”), om Gothic *?????? (*gaheis, “impetuo”), mergg wh earlier Old French jai ("merry"; see jay), om Frankish *gāhi;[1] both om Proto-Germanic *ganhuz, *ganhwaz (“sudn”).

The sense of homosexual (first rerd no later than 1937 by Cary Grant the film Brgg Up Baby, and possibly earlier 1922 the poem "Miss Furr and Miss Skeene" by Gert Ste[6][7]) was shortened om earlier gay t ("homosexual boy") unrworld and prison slang, self first attted about 1935, but ed earlier for a young tramp or hobo attached to an olr one. 2003, Michael McAvennie, The World Wrtlg Entertament Yearbook:She uldn't even ga accs om a fay iend whose name was on the list, nor uld she e her feme charms to turn on the staff member, who revealed he was gay and was more imprsed seeg Billy and Chuck enter the buildg.

2005, Mark Caldwell, New York Night, page 133:Of the dozen or so survivg articl, squibs, and letters to the edor, the most remarkable appeared the Whip and Satirist’s Febary 12, 1842, issue, and disclosed the existence of a bal of gay men New York's otherwise wholome nightspe of brothels and rts. Among the syndite of perverts, the wrer announced, "we fd no Amerins as yet—they are all Englishmen or French" (the English lled homosexualy the French vice and the French the English vice; for the Whip was the French and English vice). The two failed attempts to receive the necsary accs to medilized transn procr by the renowned FTM activist Lou Sullivan—a gay man who refed to ply wh the imperative that transsexual men mt sire women— […].

THE 'GAY' WORD: WHAT DO MEAN WHEN YOUNG PEOPLE E NEGATIVELY?

2010, Noėl Sturgeon, Environmentalism Popular Culture: Genr, Race, Sexualy, and the Polics of the Natural, page 128:In fact, as several letter wrers to the New York Tim poted out their rponse to the article, the disjuncture between the two popularized pengus shows how radilly separated om each other are muni of gay people and muni of right-wg relig nservativ: if the Christian fundamentalists had looked up "gay pengus" or even "pengus" on the Inter, they would have enuntered several gay pengu s, cludg the story of Roy and Silo, the Central Park Zoo gay pengu uple about whom a children's book was wrten; the saga of the gay pengu muny at a German zoo; and the mpaign of Gay Pengu for Print (whose slogan was "Gee W. 1977, Charl Silverste, Edmund Whe, The Joy of Gay Sex, New York: Crown Publishers, →ISBN, page 162:Gays meet each other special-tert social groups—gay softball leagu, gay bike clubs, gay gymnasia, gay activist polil anizatns, the Gay Amic Unn (an anizatn for gay teachers, scholars and stunts), gay universy stunt clubs and so on.

2003, Lawrence Block, Small Town, page 269:He might well have spected Cheek was a gay bar whout seeg any of s patrons, simply bee was a neighborhood where most of the bars were gay, and bee you uldn't see the wdows.

2014, Christopher Schaberg, Robert Bent, Denstctg Brad Pt, Bloomsbury Publishg USA, →ISBN, page 211:Beg gay for Brad, even a teensy b, is at the very least beg able to image the potential for queerns. In a sense, like the recent popular and cril furor over men who are gay-for-pay, beg gay for Brad is what Jefey Esffier f as "suatnal homosexualy, " or other forms of man-on-man behavr […] In other words, rather than worry over whether or not men who are queer for Brad n easily be labeled as straight or gay, […]. 2005, Jason Christopher Hartley, “October 23, 2004: This Is My Weapon, This Is My Gerber”, Jt Another Soldier: A Year on the Ground Iraq, HarperColls, published 2005, →ISBN, page 25:This cint has bee a source of much discsn, and the jury is still out on who is more gay: the guy who touched a dick or the guy who let a guy touch his dick.

UNGAY

1905, Barons Emmka Orczy, chapter 2, The Affair at the Novelty Theatre‎[7]:Miss Phyllis Man, as the hapls heroe drsed the shabbit of cloth, appears the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophis all and sundry there, cludg the villa, and has a magnificent scene which always brgs down the hoe, and nightly adds to her histrnic lrels.