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We round up the 10 hottt new beki terms that will make your gay iends proud to ll you "bh".

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POLARI: THE LANGUAGE GAY MEN ED TO SURVIVE

* gay langguage *

Only sce the begng of the 20th century has queer been ed to refer to people who intify as gay or lbian. Is "homosexual" still e? The standard fn of homosexual is “a person sexually attracted to people of one’s own sex.

” But, ’s typilly applied to men, and lbian is the term for a female homosexual. 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. Bee suggts that beg lbian, gay, bisexual, or of another sexual orientatn is a choice and the person n be “cured.

THE FOTTEN SECRET LANGUAGE OF GAY MEN

Learn how to speak Filipo gay slang or Beke. * gay langguage *

It’s not a gay liftyle. The word gay refers to a homosexual man, but origally meant “lighthearted, joyful, reee.

” Gay as an adjective meang “homosexual” go back at least to the 1930s. Today, gay liftyle is a monly ed—and mised—term. In the LGBTQ muny, gay liftyle, as well as homosexual liftyle, are sometim owned upon.

It’s OK to scribe someone you know who publicly self-intifi as gay, lbian, bisexual, or another sexual orientatn as out.

GAY SLANG: A SECRET LANGUAGE THAT BEGAN AS AN ACT OF DEFIANCE

Heavily ed by Brish gays the 1920s bee of anti-homosexual laws, efforts are beg ma to prerve an entirely queer-based slang. * gay langguage *

It’s also OK to scribe someone as openly gay, lbian, or bisexual. But never out someone, or expose their lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr inty, whout permissn.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* GAY LANGGUAGE

Learn Polari, the Secret Language of the Gays.

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