Why are people gay? Are they gay by choice or is beg gay geic? Are they born gay? Learn about the and reasons for beg gay.
Contents:
- WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN “GAY” AND “HOMOSEXUAL"? IS ONLY BY GENR?
- WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?
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? Aren’t “gay” and “homosexual” the same thg except “gay” beg applied to men? What’s the difference between “gay” and “homosexual” other than genr attribut?
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.
WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?
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. Note that gay is currently the procs of beg ed more formal ntexts too. 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.
I thk this is also the reason why the word gay me to be ed (around the 1960s? 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.