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 SOLUTN TO "GAY" INSULTS: FREEDOM OF SPEECH

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.

HOW TO E GAY A SENTENCE

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". 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.

MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH

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.

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

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.

ENGLISH: GAY

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

“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.

UNGAY

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.