Gay Defn & Meang - Merriam-Webster

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).

THE SOLUTN TO "GAY" INSULTS: FREEDOM OF SPEECH

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.

HOW TO E GAY A SENTENCE

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.

MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH

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".

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

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.

ENGLISH: GAY

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.

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

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.

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?

UNGAY

“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. 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.