Are ‘gay’ and ‘homosexual’ the same? Here’s what we found. - The Washgton Post

Contents:

• WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN “GAY” AND “HOMOSEXUAL"? IS ONLY BY GENR?
• ARE ‘GAY’ AND ‘HOMOSEXUAL’ THE SAME? HERE’S WHAT WE FOUND.
• QUELLE T LA DIFFéRENCE ENTRE HOMOSEXUEL ET GAY
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR – WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?
• GAY VS FAG - WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?GAY | FAG |AS NOUNS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GAY AND FAGIS THAT GAY IS A HOMOSEXUAL, PECIALLY A MALE HOMOSEXUAL; SEE ALSO LBIAN WHILE FAG IS TEXTILE SPECTNS, A ROUGH OR ARSE FECT THE WOVEN FABRIC.AS VERBS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GAY AND FAGIS THAT GAY IS TO MAKE HAPPY OR CHEERFUL WHILE FAG IS TO MAKE EXHSTED, TIRED OUT.AS A PROPER NOUN GAYIS {{SURNAME|A=AN|ENGLISH|OM=NICKNAM}}, ORIGALLY A NICKNAME FOR A CHEERFUL OR LIVELY PERSON.AS AN ADJECTIVE GAYIS HAPPY, JOYFUL, AND LIVELY.OTHER COMPARISONS: WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?FAGOT VS GAYGAYENGLISHPROPER NOUN(EN PROPER NOUN), ORIGALLY A NICKNAME FOR A CHEERFUL OR LIVELY OM THE WORD GAY, "JOYFUL"; RARE TODAY.. ALSO A SHORTENED FORM OF GABRIEL, GAYLORD AND SIAR NAM, OR TRANSFERRED OM THE SURNAME.* 1992 , UNTO THE SONS , BALLANTE BOOKS 1993, ISBN 0804110336, PAGE 15- - - MY FATHER'S FATHER, GAETANO TALE ( WHOSE NAME I HERED AFTER MY BIRTH 1932, THE ANGLICIZED OM OF "GAY "), WAS AN ATYPILLY FEARLS TRAVELER,* 2004 , BAD DIRT , FOURTH ESTATE, ISBN 0007196911, PAGE 32"MR GAY BRAWLS. WHAT A NAME.""IT DIDN'T E TO MEAN WHAT MEANS NOW. PLENTY WERE NAMED GAY'. EVEN NEVADA. WAS OLD ' GAY PCH HAD A GAS STATN WNEMUC. NOBODY THOUGHT NOTH ABOUT AND HE RAISED A RAILROAD R OF KIDS.- - -ANAGRAMS*FAG
• “GAY” OR “HOMOSEXUAL”: THE WORDS WE E N DIVI PUBLIC OPN ON CIVIL RIGHTS

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN “GAY” AND “HOMOSEXUAL"? IS ONLY BY GENR?

Amerins e the word 'gay' now stead of 'homosexual'” Mreen Dowd’s article tled “Happily Never After?

ARE ‘GAY’ AND ‘HOMOSEXUAL’ THE SAME? HERE’S WHAT WE FOUND.

Both gay and homosexual n be ed for both sex, and they mean mostly the same thg; the differenc are subtle. Probably bee the word lbian exists as well, one is slightly more likely to refer to men when g the word gay; but note that is very often also ed for women. When ed as a noun, gay seems to refer to men a b more often than as an adjective, although is still very often ed to refer to both men and women.

Gay is more rmal: homosexual is more formal, and so is more likely to be ed e. As a nsequence, g homosexual n sometim sound a ltle b as if you were scribg patients, as if were some mental illns.

QUELLE T LA DIFFéRENCE ENTRE HOMOSEXUEL ET GAY

Bee homosexualy was long treated as a disease or at least as unsirable, some of this old negativy still clgs to the word homosexual, pecially as a noun.

You will fd that most gays will maly e gay, except a scientific ntext; and even there, homosexual as a noun has bee almost impossible.

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR – WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?

If you were to say homosexuals, and you weren't over 50 or a b reactnary general, I would thk you were jokg.

GAY VS FAG - WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?GAY | FAG |AS NOUNS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GAY AND FAGIS THAT GAY IS A HOMOSEXUAL, PECIALLY A MALE HOMOSEXUAL; SEE ALSO LBIAN WHILE FAG IS TEXTILE SPECTNS, A ROUGH OR ARSE FECT THE WOVEN FABRIC.AS VERBS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GAY AND FAGIS THAT GAY IS TO MAKE HAPPY OR CHEERFUL WHILE FAG IS TO MAKE EXHSTED, TIRED OUT.AS A PROPER NOUN GAYIS {{SURNAME|A=AN|ENGLISH|OM=NICKNAM}}, ORIGALLY A NICKNAME FOR A CHEERFUL OR LIVELY PERSON.AS AN ADJECTIVE GAYIS HAPPY, JOYFUL, AND LIVELY.OTHER COMPARISONS: WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?FAGOT VS GAYGAYENGLISHPROPER NOUN(EN PROPER NOUN), ORIGALLY A NICKNAME FOR A CHEERFUL OR LIVELY OM THE WORD GAY, "JOYFUL"; RARE TODAY.. ALSO A SHORTENED FORM OF GABRIEL, GAYLORD AND SIAR NAM, OR TRANSFERRED OM THE SURNAME.* 1992 , UNTO THE SONS , BALLANTE BOOKS 1993, ISBN 0804110336, PAGE 15- - - MY FATHER'S FATHER, GAETANO TALE ( WHOSE NAME I HERED AFTER MY BIRTH 1932, THE ANGLICIZED OM OF "GAY "), WAS AN ATYPILLY FEARLS TRAVELER,* 2004 , BAD DIRT , FOURTH ESTATE, ISBN 0007196911, PAGE 32"MR GAY BRAWLS. WHAT A NAME.""IT DIDN'T E TO MEAN WHAT MEANS NOW. PLENTY WERE NAMED GAY'. EVEN NEVADA. WAS OLD ' GAY PCH HAD A GAS STATN WNEMUC. NOBODY THOUGHT NOTH ABOUT AND HE RAISED A RAILROAD R OF KIDS.- - -ANAGRAMS*FAG

Gay is perhaps applied more monly to men (as both fns state), but isn't exclive. ) om the mouth of a real live lbian, who lived through the wars of Who Are We, Lbians or Gay Women? If you want to e the word "homosexual, " then you are a doctor or scientist, or a parent who was raised the 1930s.

“GAY” OR “HOMOSEXUAL”: THE WORDS WE E N DIVI PUBLIC OPN ON CIVIL RIGHTS

Anyway, gays took back the word "gay" bee was beg ed as a slur agast them, much like the n-word, much like the word faggot (and if you are unfaiar wh the rivatn of the word faggot, I suggt you n to your dictnary right now, sce is no where near as fortable as the rivatn of the word lbian). Suffice to say that the word homosexual is an outdated term all but the most tached scientific wrg; that the word lbian appli strictly to women; and that the word gay n refer to both men and women, but ually refers to men. There are some who would argue that "homosexuals" are those who meet the clil fn of beg more attracted to members of the same sex than those of the oppose sex (given that most theori of sexual orientatn today dite that sexual orientatn is a ntuum, that heterosexualy and homosexualy are more than or ls than differenc rather than dichotomi).

Given the opprsn that has led to the "closet, " many people who are more homosexual than heterosexual do not and have never participated the gay liftyle or culture and may even be largely unaware of .

It is suggted that the first e of the word "gay" a sexual ntext was a short fictn piece by Gert Ste:. I'm always amazed when I read an article and a person is scribed as an "avowed homosexual" - I never took a pledge!