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the gay language

From Regency England to 1920s Harlem to Miss Piggy, gay vernacular has given voice to homosexual inty and sire a hostile world. In some parts, still do.

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THE FOTTEN SECRET LANGUAGE OF GAY MEN

Heavily ed by Brish gays the 1920s bee of anti-homosexual laws, efforts are beg ma to prerve an entirely queer-based slang. * the gay language *

Only sce the begng of the 20th century has queer been ed to refer to people who intify as gay or lbian.

GAY LANGUAGE(1,700 WORDS)

The LGBTQ+ muny is known for havg unique and creative ways of self-exprsn. One secret language began as an act of fiance agast an anti-gay society. * the gay language *

Is "homosexual" still e? The standard fn of homosexual is “a person sexually attracted to people of one’s own sex. ” But, ’s typilly applied to men, and lbian is the term for a female homosexual.

GLAAD prefers that we don’t e the term homosexual bee ’s “aggrsively ed by anti-gay extremists to suggt that gay people are somehow diseased or psychologilly/emotnally disorred. Bee suggts that beg lbian, gay, bisexual, or of another sexual orientatn is a choice and the person n be “cured.

It’s not a gay liftyle.

GAY SLANG: A SECRET LANGUAGE THAT BEGAN AS AN ACT OF DEFIANCE

* the gay language *

The word gay refers to a homosexual man, but origally meant “lighthearted, joyful, reee.

HOW TO SAY GAY DIFFERENT LANGUAG

” Gay as an adjective meang “homosexual” go back at least to the 1930s. Today, gay liftyle is a monly ed—and mised—term.

In the LGBTQ muny, gay liftyle, as well as homosexual liftyle, are sometim owned upon.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* THE GAY LANGUAGE

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