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Contents:
- SUP? LOOKG? PARTY? A GUI TO GAY APP LGO
- THIS SECRET LANGUAGE ALLOWED GAY MEN TO COMMUNITE WHEN HOMOSEXUALY WAS ILLEGAL
- HOW TO DISCREETLY FD OUT IF SOMEONE YOU KNOW IS GAY
- THE 55 PHRAS GAY MEN MOST OFTEN GO THROUGH...
SUP? LOOKG? PARTY? A GUI TO GAY APP LGO
Sup? Lookg? Party? WEHOville helps you unrstand the gay app lgo. * discreet gay words *
A slang term scribg gay and bisexual men who are not out of the closet and not planng to be; on datg apps such as Grdr, dividuals scribg themselv as ‘discreet’ are generally lookg for or offerg sexual enunters that are sual, one-off and/or takg place whout any romantic tert that will be kept secret – for example, a man who may be a heterosexual relatnship lookg for no strgs attached sex wh another man; or a heterosexual-intified person who may be bicur and lookg to explore that si of their sexualy whout people knowg.
THIS SECRET LANGUAGE ALLOWED GAY MEN TO COMMUNITE WHEN HOMOSEXUALY WAS ILLEGAL
* discreet gay words *
Gay. The earlit term to scribe a queer inty was “homosexual, ” which is thought to have been ed by a German wrer 1869 (notably, exactly 100 years before the Stonewall Rts). Some people preferred to e the word “homophile” (lerally “love of the same”) to shift the foc to love rather than sex.
Then me “gay” the 1900s.
HOW TO DISCREETLY FD OUT IF SOMEONE YOU KNOW IS GAY
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When ma to the mastream, “gay” was ed as an umbrella term for the entire equaly movement. Use of “lbian” to scribe women terted other women me shortly after, durg the height of the women’s rights movement, when gay women wanted a way to lguistilly differentiate themselv om gay men. If those terms weren’t ed, trans and bisexual folks were fold unr the “gay” umbrella.
But for olr folks, who remember the not-so-distant past when “queer” was a homophobic slur, may not feel like a great solutn. That has bee even more difficult our digal world, which has drawn gay guys away bars to spend their evengs at home textg on hookup apps an effort to fd “The One” or “The One Right Now. So how do one terpret the gay app vobulary?
THE 55 PHRAS GAY MEN MOST OFTEN GO THROUGH...
Here’s his take on the hidn meangs behd regular nversatn on gay apps:.