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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
If you were a gay man livg England the mid-20th century you might greet your iends wh How bona to varda your dolly old eek.... * 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).
HOW TO DISCREETLY FD OUT IF SOMEONE YOU KNOW IS GAY
* discreet gay words *
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. When ma to the mastream, “gay” was ed as an umbrella term for the entire equaly movement.
THE 55 PHRAS GAY MEN MOST OFTEN GO THROUGH...
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.