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.
Contents:
- THE FOTTEN SECRET LANGUAGE OF GAY MEN
- GAY LANGUAGE(1,700 WORDS)
- GAY SLANG: A SECRET LANGUAGE THAT BEGAN AS AN ACT OF DEFIANCE
- HOW TO SAY GAY DIFFERENT LANGUAG
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. ” Gay as an adjective meang “homosexual” go back at least to the 1930s.
HOW TO SAY GAY DIFFERENT LANGUAG
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. It’s OK to scribe someone you know who publicly self-intifi as gay, lbian, bisexual, or another sexual orientatn as out.