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Hochgang, a Deaf lguist and profsor at Gallt Universy Northeast Washgton.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">The Washgton Post asked several members of the Deaf queer muny to monstrate how ASL is evolvg.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p><span class="wpds-c-gnhuPA wpds-c-gnhuPA-hqeSyH-variant-terstial wpds-c-gnhuPA-iPJLV-css hi-for-prt"><a data-qa="terstial-lk" href=">A gui to how genr-ntral language is velopg around the world</a></span></p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><h3 data-qa="article-hear" class=" pb-sm pt-md" id="YBQRUIYAXZDLVNJTU7XZXRWLOY"><div>Fdg the right sign for ‘queer’</div></h3></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Consir the word “queer.” In ASL, there are at least three ways to sign . One popular sign for “queer” the sign for “rabow,” reference to the rabow Pri flag.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-vio" data-ttid="article-vio" class="ma-to" style="max-width:300px"><div><figure class="mb-md mr-to-ns ml-to-ns hi-for-prt flex flex-lumn ems-center ml-neg-gutter mr-neg-gutter"><div class="w-100 aspect-ctom" style="background-posn:center;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-lor:rgb(245, 245, 245);background-image:url();background-size:nta;--aspect-height:1.7777777777777777;--aspect-width:1"></div><figptn><div class="mt-xs mr-to-ns ml-to-ns left font--subhead font-xxxs gray-dark square-vertil-vio" data-qa="vio-ptn">Cecilia Ggan signs a versn of “queer” ASL. (Vio: The Washgton Post)</div></figptn></figure></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">But some people feel the sign isn’t clive enough, bee the rabow don’t clu lors like pk, light blue or whe, which are found on the transgenr Pri flag. Others oppose the rabow bee they say portrays an ialized experience of beg queer.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“Usg the rabow mak everythg seem happy, but everythg isn’t all perfect,” said Oliver Stabbe, 27, who is trans, hard of hearg and liv Oakland, Calif. “Queer people are still beg opprsed.”</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">A send sign for queer is adapted om Japane Sign Language. It’s a fluid motn that begs wh an L hand shape and ends the letter Q to suggt that there’s an alphabet of inti between the two letters.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-vio" data-ttid="article-vio" class="ma-to" style="max-width:300px"><div><figure class="mb-md mr-to-ns ml-to-ns hi-for-prt flex flex-lumn ems-center ml-neg-gutter mr-neg-gutter"><div class="w-100 aspect-ctom" style="background-posn:center;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-lor:rgb(245, 245, 245);background-image:url();background-size:nta;--aspect-height:1.7777777777777777;--aspect-width:1"></div><figptn><div class="mt-xs mr-to-ns ml-to-ns left font--subhead font-xxxs gray-dark square-vertil-vio" data-qa="vio-ptn">Cecilia Ggan signs a versn of “queer” ASL. (Vio: The Washgton Post)</div></figptn></figure></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Cecilia Ggan, 29, a Deaf, trans and nonbary person livg the D.C. area, prefers this sign, bee feels more clive. “It symboliz that the acronym n ntue. Wherever you fall on this spectm, this sign will clu you,” they said.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">But many Deaf queer people prefer to e the ASL alphabet to spell Q-U-E-E-R bee they feel the other signs don’t fully reprent them. The double “e” the word mak simple to fgerspell.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-vio" data-ttid="article-vio" class="ma-to" style="max-width:300px"><div><figure class="mb-md mr-to-ns ml-to-ns hi-for-prt flex flex-lumn ems-center ml-neg-gutter mr-neg-gutter"><div class="w-100 aspect-ctom" style="background-posn:center;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-lor:rgb(245, 245, 245);background-image:url();background-size:nta;--aspect-height:1.7777777777777777;--aspect-width:1"></div><figptn><div class="mt-xs mr-to-ns ml-to-ns left font--subhead font-xxxs gray-dark square-vertil-vio" data-qa="vio-ptn">Cecilia Ggan fgerspells “queer” ASL. (Vio: The Washgton Post)</div></figptn></figure></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><h3 data-qa="article-hear" class=" pb-sm pt-md" id="6VVPCO3T7ZE6BD272LQNIKPKM4"><div>The challenge of creatg a new sign</div></h3></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">While spoken and wrten languag n spread swiftly through a number of formats, ASL has typilly spread through face-to-face teractns and n’t be easily shared by wrten word, so n take longer for nsens to form around new signs.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">For much of ASL’s history, those who have had the most power to dissemate signs have been straight, Whe, cisgenr people, acrdg to Deidra Pelletier, vice print of the Rabow Alliance of the Deaf.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“In the past, much of the queer muny was closeted, so they didn’t really have the chance to discs or analyze signs large groups wh straight people,” she said.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">The rise of vio-based social media is allowg ASL to spread more rapidly and is empowerg the Deaf queer muny to exert more fluence over Amerin Sign Language.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">But fdg an inic or metaphoril way to reprent some inti has proven to be difficult, and many signs are still fgerspelled. Long words require xtery and aren’t always easy to cipher.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">For stance, “bisexual” is an eight-letter word that n be ted to fgerspell. As a rult, Deaf people typilly spell out the abbreviatn “Bi,” stead. There have been attempts to e up wh a more nceptual sign for “bisexual,” but none have ught on wily.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-vio" data-ttid="article-vio" class="ma-to" style="max-width:300px"><div><figure class="mb-md mr-to-ns ml-to-ns hi-for-prt flex flex-lumn ems-center ml-neg-gutter mr-neg-gutter"><div class="w-100 aspect-ctom" style="background-posn:center;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-lor:rgb(245, 245, 245);background-image:url();background-size:nta;--aspect-height:1.7777777777777777;--aspect-width:1"></div><figptn><div class="mt-xs mr-to-ns ml-to-ns left font--subhead font-xxxs gray-dark square-vertil-vio" data-qa="vio-ptn">Cldia Grdano fgerspells “bi” ASL. (Vio: The Washgton Post)</div></figptn></figure></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><h3 data-qa="article-hear" class=" pb-sm pt-md" id="ZMPODULAORGWNCKJP7EYQHW2KU"><div>Fdg a sign for nonbary</div></h3></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Other inti — nonbary, asexual or pansexual — are also challengg to spell ASL But abbreviatns don’t always work. For stance, “nonbary” n’t be shortened to “N-B,” bee that abbreviatn is ed some muni to refer to non-Black people.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-vio" data-ttid="article-vio" class="ma-to" style="max-width:300px"><div><figure class="mb-md mr-to-ns ml-to-ns hi-for-prt flex flex-lumn ems-center ml-neg-gutter mr-neg-gutter"><div class="w-100 aspect-ctom" style="background-posn:center;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-lor:rgb(245, 245, 245);background-image:url();background-size:nta;--aspect-height:1.7777777777777777;--aspect-width:1"></div><figptn><div class="mt-xs mr-to-ns ml-to-ns left font--subhead font-xxxs gray-dark square-vertil-vio" data-qa="vio-ptn">Jerr Gee fgerspells “nonbary” ASL. (Vio: The Washgton Post)</div></figptn></figure></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">A few years ago, Deaf nonbary people planned a virtual town hall to e up wh a new sign for nonbary, acrdg to Bee Gehman, who found <a href=" target=_blank>Jooux</a>, a Deaf sexual wellns center. But, the meetg never happened bee of a lack of rourc and support.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“It’s a challenge to e up wh a new sign bee we’re nstantly tryg to survive this opprsive society as a Deaf, disabled and queer person,”<b> </b>said Gehman, who intifi as nonbary and queer.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Some, like Jerr Gee, a 33-year old Deaf nonbary person livg D.C., don’t md spellg out the full word, bee they view as an tnal opportuny.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“Givg people accs to the English word spellg allows them to Google and learn more about ,” Gee said.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><h3 data-qa="article-hear" class=" pb-sm pt-md" id="NRGA2P7J5NDEBME7BDIZTS724Y"><div>A sign for ‘transgenr’ has been slow to spread</div></h3></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">For years, a monly ed sign to scribe transgenr people bed the sign for “sex” and the motn for “change.” The sign now is nsired offensive and is ak to g the outdated English word “transsexual.”</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-vio" data-ttid="article-vio" class="ma-to" style="max-width:300px"><div><figure class="mb-md mr-to-ns ml-to-ns hi-for-prt flex flex-lumn ems-center ml-neg-gutter mr-neg-gutter"><div class="w-100 aspect-ctom" style="background-posn:center;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-lor:rgb(245, 245, 245);background-image:url();background-size:nta;--aspect-height:1.7777777777777777;--aspect-width:1"></div><figptn><div class="mt-xs mr-to-ns ml-to-ns left font--subhead font-xxxs gray-dark square-vertil-vio" data-qa="vio-ptn">Man Jericho signs an outdated versn of “trans” ASL. (Vio: The Washgton Post)</div></figptn></figure></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">A group of Deaf trans people at a 2003 nference Florida<b> </b>agreed on a new sign that evok the sign for “betiful” and is placed on the cht, where the sign for “myself” is also placed. The sign n be terpreted a variety of ways, but is ultimately about havg a strong ner inty, said Alex Leffers, a Deaf trans man who took part the cisn to choose this sign.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“It don’t matter what you look like, or how you reprent yourself, ’s about who you are on the si,” he said. “That inty is protected; n’t be taken om you.”</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-vio" data-ttid="article-vio" class="ma-to" style="max-width:300px"><div><figure class="mb-md mr-to-ns ml-to-ns hi-for-prt flex flex-lumn ems-center ml-neg-gutter mr-neg-gutter"><div class="w-100 aspect-ctom" style="background-posn:center;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-lor:rgb(245, 245, 245);background-image:url();background-size:nta;--aspect-height:1.7777777777777777;--aspect-width:1"></div><figptn><div class="mt-xs mr-to-ns ml-to-ns left font--subhead font-xxxs gray-dark square-vertil-vio" data-qa="vio-ptn">Man Jericho signs “trans” ASL. (Vio: The Washgton Post)</div></figptn></figure></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Though the cisn to e this sign was ma two s ago, some Deaf trans people say many terpreters still don’t know the sign.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Leffers, a munitns manager at Gallt Universy, said the hope is for signs related to queer inti to be clud more tnal curriculums and terpretg programs.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Man Jericho, a 32-year-old transgenr Deaf person, said that while he knew the English word for “trans,” he didn’t learn the ASL sign for his inty until he attend Gallt.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><h3 data-qa="article-hear" class=" pb-sm pt-md" id="WF4ZIIBRAZGNHO76JR54Y5GAIU"><div>Fdg an clive sign for drag</div></h3></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Other signs related to queer inty are only now startg to spread more wily.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">For example, drag shows have tradnally been accsible for many Deaf people bee they lacked ptns or terpreters. But as more ASL terpreters have been provid at drag events, signs related to drag have spread.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">And the rise of Deaf drag performers like Alvaro Garcia, 33 and Jimmy Lar, 32, of Denver, has raised awarens about drag the Deaf muny. The duo perform as Deafi Drag on social media, and many of their vios feature them dog more visually based acts, like sks or tellg stori ASL.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">One sign for “drag queen” suggts a bold wig worn by many performers, bed wh the sign for “queen,” which a “Q” hand shape and outl a sash.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-vio" data-ttid="article-vio" class="ma-to" style="max-width:300px"><div><figure class="mb-md mr-to-ns ml-to-ns hi-for-prt flex flex-lumn ems-center ml-neg-gutter mr-neg-gutter"><div class="w-100 aspect-ctom" style="background-posn:center;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-lor:rgb(245, 245, 245);background-image:url();background-size:nta;--aspect-height:1.7777777777777777;--aspect-width:1"></div><figptn><div class="mt-xs mr-to-ns ml-to-ns left font--subhead font-xxxs gray-dark square-vertil-vio" data-qa="vio-ptn">Miss Zyafirah, whose real name is Randall “Rexy” Anrson, signs a versn of “drag queen” ASL. (Vio: The Washgton Post)</div></figptn></figure></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Another variatn on “queen” suggts the placement of a crown.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-vio" data-ttid="article-vio" class="ma-to" style="max-width:300px"><div><figure class="mb-md mr-to-ns ml-to-ns hi-for-prt flex flex-lumn ems-center ml-neg-gutter mr-neg-gutter"><div class="w-100 aspect-ctom" style="background-posn:center;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-lor:rgb(245, 245, 245);background-image:url();background-size:nta;--aspect-height:1.7777777777777777;--aspect-width:1"></div><figptn><div class="mt-xs mr-to-ns ml-to-ns left font--subhead font-xxxs gray-dark square-vertil-vio" data-qa="vio-ptn">Miss Zyafirah, whose real name is Randall “Rexy” Anrson signs a versn of “queen” ASL. (Vio: The Washgton Post)</div></figptn></figure></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Leffers, the trans man who helped choose the new sign for “trans,” said he also helped e up wh a sign for “drag kg,” a performer who personifi male genr stereotyp. This sign, which is only startg to spread, emulat twirlg a mtache, and n be bed wh the sign for “kg,” which a “K” hand shape to outle a sash.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-vio" data-ttid="article-vio" class="ma-to" style="max-width:300px"><div><figure class="mb-md mr-to-ns ml-to-ns hi-for-prt flex flex-lumn ems-center ml-neg-gutter mr-neg-gutter"><div class="w-100 aspect-ctom" style="background-posn:center;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-lor:rgb(245, 245, 245);background-image:url();background-size:nta;--aspect-height:1.7777777777777777;--aspect-width:1"></div><figptn><div class="mt-xs mr-to-ns ml-to-ns left font--subhead font-xxxs gray-dark square-vertil-vio" data-qa="vio-ptn">Miss Zyafirah, whose real name is Randall “Rexy” Anrson, signs a versn of “drag kg” ASL. (Vio: The Washgton Post)</div></figptn></figure></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Lillouie Barrs, owner of a Deaf drag anizatn Portland, Ore., lled Handsync, didn’t learn the sign for “drag kg” until 2019. But for nonbary drag performers, neher the sign for “drag queen” or “drag kg” seem to f, he said.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“It’s plited. We haven’t nfirmed an appropriate sign for the general act of drag self,” he said. “We really need to fd one good sign for jt the word “drag.'”</p></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><h3 data-qa="article-hear" class=" pb-sm pt-md" id="DSPQAKLDTFHUBFSKEOL75SUXIQ"><div>Why some inty signs n offend</div></h3></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">In ASL, signs relatg to women, such as “sister” or “mother,” are tradnally placed on the lower half of the face, whereas signs relatg to men are typilly placed on the upper half of the face.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">That’s why some people don’t like the tradnal sign for “gay,” which plac a “G” hand shape at the ch.<b> </b>They<b> </b>believe this<b> </b>suggts a feme sign.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-vio" data-ttid="article-vio" class="ma-to" style="max-width:300px"><div><figure class="mb-md mr-to-ns ml-to-ns hi-for-prt flex flex-lumn ems-center ml-neg-gutter mr-neg-gutter"><div class="w-100 aspect-ctom" style="background-posn:center;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-lor:rgb(245, 245, 245);background-image:url();background-size:nta;--aspect-height:1.7777777777777777;--aspect-width:1"></div><figptn><div class="mt-xs mr-to-ns ml-to-ns left font--subhead font-xxxs gray-dark square-vertil-vio" data-qa="vio-ptn">Sean Norman signs a versn of “gay” ASL. (Vio: The Washgton Post)</div></figptn></figure></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Gehman, a certified sexualy tor, said that they fgerspell the word.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-vio" data-ttid="article-vio" class="ma-to" style="max-width:300px"><div><figure class="mb-md mr-to-ns ml-to-ns hi-for-prt flex flex-lumn ems-center ml-neg-gutter mr-neg-gutter"><div class="w-100 aspect-ctom" style="background-posn:center;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-lor:rgb(245, 245, 245);background-image:url();background-size:nta;--aspect-height:1.7777777777777777;--aspect-width:1"></div><figptn><div class="mt-xs mr-to-ns ml-to-ns left font--subhead font-xxxs gray-dark square-vertil-vio" data-qa="vio-ptn">Sean Norman fgerspells “gay” ASL. (Vio: The Washgton Post)</div></figptn></figure></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Ernt Willman, 30, of Arizona, said that his Deaf gay muny, there’s a lot of bate about which sign is bt. Some feel that the non-spelled sign rri stigma, but others feel they are reclaimg the sign, he said.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“Often the gay Deaf muny, would be acceptable to e the old sign for gay, but I enurage other people to e the spelled-out word,” Willman said.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Sean Norman, a 37-year-old Deaf gay man livg D.C. prefers to e the tradnal sign.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“I feel like ’s a source of pri now,” he said. “A sign isn’t herently negative.”</p></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><h3 data-qa="article-hear" class=" pb-sm pt-md" id="LAJYUGMBMRB27KXVXB4ZQSC4TU"><div>A send sign for ‘lbian’</div></h3></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">A siar bate is also playg out Deaf lbian muni. An olr sign for “lbian” volved puttg an “L” on the ch.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-vio" data-ttid="article-vio" class="ma-to" style="max-width:300px"><div><figure class="mb-md mr-to-ns ml-to-ns hi-for-prt flex flex-lumn ems-center ml-neg-gutter mr-neg-gutter"><div class="w-100 aspect-ctom" style="background-posn:center;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-lor:rgb(245, 245, 245);background-image:url();background-size:nta;--aspect-height:1.7777777777777777;--aspect-width:1"></div><figptn><div class="mt-xs mr-to-ns ml-to-ns left font--subhead font-xxxs gray-dark square-vertil-vio" data-qa="vio-ptn">Kisha Hopwood signs a versn of “lbian” ASL. (Vio: The Washgton Post)</div></figptn></figure></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Some people said the sign rembled the sign for “vaga,” said MJ Bienvenu, 70, a Deaf lbian woman livg At. She and many others have started g a newer sign for “lbian” that mov the posn of the hand slightly so that a person taps their ch wh their x fger. “The new sign is an improvement,” Bienvenu said.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-vio" data-ttid="article-vio" class="ma-to" style="max-width:300px"><div><figure class="mb-md mr-to-ns ml-to-ns hi-for-prt flex flex-lumn ems-center ml-neg-gutter mr-neg-gutter"><div class="w-100 aspect-ctom" style="background-posn:center;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-lor:rgb(245, 245, 245);background-image:url();background-size:nta;--aspect-height:1.7777777777777777;--aspect-width:1"></div><figptn><div class="mt-xs mr-to-ns ml-to-ns left font--subhead font-xxxs gray-dark square-vertil-vio" data-qa="vio-ptn">Kisha Hopwood signs a versn of “lbian” ASL. (Vio: The Washgton Post)</div></figptn></figure></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">But for other Deaf lbian women, like Kisha Hopwood, 41, of Hanover, Md., the olr sign is a source of pri.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">The origal sign “shows that I’m proud of who I am,” she said. “Movg to the si feels like you’re tryg to obscure the sign slightly or make seem more civil.”</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">The variatn how people choose to sign different inti may seem nfg to some, but Stabbe se as a natural rult of the fact that Deaf queer people have diverse experienc.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“There is no one sgular way to be Deaf nor is there a sgular way to be LGBTQIA+,” he said. “Language is an extensn of who we are and a means for to take pri ourselv.”</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><h4 data-qa="article-hear" class=" pb-sm pt-md" id="JEPEPSLEV5CSHAZMVJZZSNL6FM"><div>About this story</div></h4></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Reportg by Amanda Morris; vio by Alexa Juliana Ard; illtratns by Anna Lefkowz; py edg by Melissa Ngo.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center 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Signs for GAY and some variatns sign language (ASL) and some more related signs the ASL dictnary app.

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HOW TO SAY “GAY” IN SIGN LANGUAGE

Do you want to improve your queer ASL vobulary? This gui will teach you how to sign the word “gay” and other queer-related words! * gay on asl *

If you want to bsh up on your queer signs, here’s how to say “gay” sign language! What Is “Gay” In Sign Language? If you want to say “gay” sign language, tap the letter “G” on your ch.

Spell the word letter by letter) “gay” for clary.

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Watch how to sign 'gay' Amerin Sign Language. * gay on asl *

There are many ways you n e the signed word “gay. Start wh the hand sign for “gay” and work your way up toward the rt of the LGBTQ dictnary!

How To Say “Gay” In Sign Language. Defn: an ialism that stands for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer. Here are a few signs: queer, lbian, gay, bi, straight, and transgenr.

HOW TO SAY GAY SIGN LANGUAGE?

Wonrg How to Say Gay Sign Language? Here is the most accurate and prehensive answer to the qutn. Read now * gay on asl *

I knew gay (0:40) and the sign for transsexual (1:19 the one that the signer says is outdated). (pervert spams chatroom wh seri of sults volvg one havg a gay name and feels sad)Get the asl mug.

How to sign: someone who practic homosexualy; havg a sexual attractn to persons of the same sex. Homosexual - Latter Day Sats.

HOW TO SAY "GAY" SIGN LANGUAGE

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gay - SMARTSign Dictnary. Gay - ASL Study.

Siiar / Same: homosexual, homo.

Wh this tegory: gay man, lbian. gay.

HOW TO SIGN ‘GAY’ OR ‘QUEER’? AMERIN SIGN LANGUAGE ERS DON’T AGREE.

Watch how to sign 'gay' Amerin Sign Language. * gay on asl *

How to sign: homosexual or arog homosexual sir. Siiar / Same: homophile, queer. One way to say "gay" sign language is by g the ASL (Amerin Sign Language) sign for "homosexual.

SIGNS FOR GAY

Wonrg How to Say Gay Sign Language? Here is the most accurate and prehensive answer to the qutn. Read now * gay on asl *

Another way to say "gay" sign language is by g the BSL (Brish Sign Language) sign for "gay. This sign is often ed the Uned Kgdom and are also many other ways to sign "gay" sign language, pendg on the regn or untry where you are signg. For example, Atralia there is a sign for "gay" that the ASL sign for "homosexual" but wh a different hand shape.

In New Zealand, there is a sign for "gay" that the BSL sign for "gay" but wh a different hand general, the signs for "gay" sign language are siar across untri and regns, but there are some mor differenc.

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The signs for “I am” are "um, " wh the hand a downward posn and then spreadg out, and "ahhh, " wh the hand at heart did the term “gay” e om? The term “gay” first appeared the late 1800s and early 1900s to scribe someone who is do mean to be gay the 17th century?

"THE SOCIETY" STAR SEAN BERDY ON HIS QUEER ASL CHARACTER NEW NETFLIX DRAMA“I’M REALLY GLAD CHRIS, THE CREATOR, MA SAM A GAY CHARACTER”{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}TVBY LAWRENCE FERBERMAY 16, 2019/6:58 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:3000PX;WIDTH:4500PX;}NETFLIXTHE SOCIETYBY LAWRENCE FERBERMAY 16, 2019 / 6:58 AM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"\"THE SOCIETY\" STAR SEAN BERDY ON HIS QUEER ASL CHARACTER NEW NETFLIX DRAMA","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2019-05-16T10:58:51.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2019-05-16T10:58:51.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"LAWRENCE FERBER","ARTICLESECTN":"TV"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BLEND THE LORD OF THE FLI, LOST, A RIVERDALE-WORTHY YOUNG ST, AND A REHG DOSE OF QUEER TERSECTNAL REPRENTATN, AND YOU HAVE NETFLIX’S THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE 10-EPISO YA DRAMA, OM PARTY OF FIVE -CREATOR CHRISTOPHER KEYSER, SE A GROUP OF HIGH SCHOOL STUNTS RETURN OM A MPG TRIP TO THEIR SMALL NEW ENGLAND TOWN TO DISVER THAT EVERYONE ELSE HAS VANISHED. ONE OF THE STUNTS IS SAM, A GAY ASL CHARACTER PLAYED BY ASL ACTOR SEAN BERDY (SWCHED AT BIRTH), WHO STARTS A RELATNSHIP LATER THE SERI WH A CLOSETED JOCK, GRIZZ (JACK MULHERN).{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE PAST FEW YEARS HAVE SEEN A FEW QUEER, ASL CHARACTERS ONSCREEN, WHILE MAYOR PETE GAVE ASL MUNITORS SOME HIGH-PROFILE QUEER LOVE LAST MONTH WHEN HE THANKED AF SUPPORTER-ACTIVIST ANRSON PLEASANTS ASL THROUGH A TWTER VIO. SO 'S FABULO TO SEE MORE REPRENTATN G TO THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}VIA AN ASL TRANSLATOR, BERDY TALKED TO NEWNOWNEXT ABOUT PLAYG AN UNRREPRENTED TERSECTNAL QUEER AND LIVG LA VIDA LORD OF THE FLI.NETFLIXTHE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HOW ARE YOU MOST LIKE SAM?{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SAM IS TENR, HE’S SWEET, HE’S NICE, HE’S LOYAL, AND VERY QUIET. HE THKS OUTSI THE BOX, HE THKS ABOUT OTHERS, AND IS VERY GENTLE. I’M A LOUD, PLAYFUL LTLE VIL WHO LIV LIFE ONE DAY AT A TIME. I’M REALLY GLAD CHRIS, THE CREATOR, MA SAM A GAY CHARACTER. IT WAS A PRIVILEGE TO PLAY HIM AND SHOW LOVE IS LOVE, AND LOVE IS NECSARY. TO PLAY THIS IS SO {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}DID YOU DRAW SPIRATN OM LGBTQ IENDS?{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}I TALKED WH THEM AND MENTNED I’M PLAYG GAY, AND THEY GAVE A POSIVE RPONSE. I DID GET SUPPORT AND HOPE I REPRENT THE MUNY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HAVE YOU EVER BEEN STUCK A LORD OF THE FLI SUATN WHERE KIDS OR A GROUP OF PEOPLE WERE SUDNLY LEFT ON THEIR OWN AND SH WENT SIWAYS?{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}NO, NOT REALLY. I’VE ALWAYS BEEN PENNT AND WALKED MY OWN PATH AND DID MY OWN THG. WHEN I GOT THE SCRIPT AND WAS ASKED TO BE , I SAID, HECK YEAH. I LOVE THAT STORY LORD OF THE FLI. HOW MANY PEOPLE GET TO PLAY THAT OUT? BUT REAL LIFE I’VE NEVER BEEN STUCK A GROUP SUATN LIKE THAT.NETFLIXTHE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HOW DID YOU FEEL ABOUT THE RELATNSHIP BETWEEN SAM AND GRIZZ, AND HOW DID YOU AND JACK APPROACH ?{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IT’S TERTG, BEE WE SAT DOWN AND DISCSED THE CHARACTERS. WE’RE BOTH EP-THKG ACTORS AND HAD TO GO THROUGH THE STEPS OF WHAT THIS WOULD BE LIKE. THE CHEMISTRY. WE DID CLICK RIGHT AWAY AND WE BOTH RPECT THE LGBTQ MUNY AND WANTED TO REPRENT THE CHARACTERS THE BT WE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THERE ARE SOME BIG TWISTS FOR SAM. WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE HIM NTUE HIS JOURNEY A SEND SEASON?{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}NOT JT SAM’S, BUT ALL OF THE CHARACTERS. I’M EXCED TO SEE THE EFFECT THIS SHOW {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:75%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}YOU MA AN ASL KARAOKE VIO TO BILLY JOEL’S “WE DIDN’T START THE FIRE” ON INSTAGRAM. CAN WE REQUT SOME ASL GAGA NEXT PLEASE?{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}I HAVE SO MANY FAVORE SONGS! I DO HAVE ONE SONG I PLAN TO PRODUCE TO A MIC ASL VIO. I’D RATHER NOT DISCLOSE YET, BUT ’S A CLASSIC AND I HOPE TO PUT OUT ON {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IS A BLSG NOT BEG ABLE TO HEAR DONALD TMP SPEAK? OR N YOU SENSE THE AWFULNS THROUGH HIS FACE AND TRANSLATN?{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}[LGHS] I MEAN, TO BE HONT, I’M NOT A POLIL PERSON OR FOLLOW MEDIA OR NEWS, BUT I’VE SEEN HIM OPEN HIS MOUTH AND WHAT N I SAY. DAVE CHAPPELLE, ONE OF MY FAVORE EDIANS, SAYS, "TMP’S JT A BAD DJ AT A GOOD PARTY." DAVE SAID {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WHAT’S YOUR NUMBER ONE TIP FOR SOMEONE WHO MEETS AND TERACTS WH A ASF PERSON FOR THE FIRST TIME?{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}JT BE KD AND LOVG. I THK THAT’S ALL, AND GO OM {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS

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For example, the 1400s, a gay man was lled a Gaysman or Gayster.

In 1528, a book about human nature lled De quadpe apud Graes ("The Four-Legged Beast Among the Greeks") said, "There are many Gays [...

HOW TO SAY GAY SIGN LANGUAGE?

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HOW TO SAY "GAY" SIGN LANGUAGE

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