Don Kulick, Gay and Lbian Language, Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 29 (2000), pp. 243-285
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. 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.
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 *
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. 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. 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.
GAY SLANG: A SECRET LANGUAGE THAT BEGAN AS AN ACT OF DEFIANCE
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. * the gay language *
It’s OK to scribe someone you know who publicly self-intifi as gay, lbian, bisexual, or another sexual orientatn as out. It’s also OK to scribe someone as openly gay, lbian, or bisexual. But never out someone, or expose their lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr inty, whout permissn.
Banishg the "homosexual agenda". But, people who are gay, lbian, bisexual, or transgenr also re about a wi variety of other polil, social, and cultural issu.
The term homosexual agenda is ed by anti-gay extremists to create a climate of fear and mistst. It’s sometim ed as a disparagg way to scribe the recment of heterosexuals to a homosexual liftyle.
HOW TO SAY GAY DIFFERENT LANGUAG
All to say, let’s banish homosexual agenda om our vobulary. ” They are often gay but n be a man of any sexual orientatn. Pri, formerly known as Gay Pri, is a regnn of LGBTQ inty, affirmatn of equal rights, and celebratn of visibily, digny, and diversy the LGBTQ muny.
G: Gay. Why gay or lbian and not “homosexual”?
While the word homosexual is still ocsnally ed some ntexts, you might have noticed that don’t make an appearance any versn of the LGBTQ acronym. As our age note on the term stat, “up until 1973, homosexualy was listed The Diagnostic and Statistil Manual of Mental Disorrs (DSM), psychiatry’s standard reference on the classifitn of mental illns.