Gay Defn & Meang - Merriam-Webster

Contents:

• WHAT IS THIS "GOLD STAR GAY" STAT THAT ANDY COHEN REFERRED TO?
• GAY
• GAY STAR
• GOLD STAR GAY
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, & INTERSEX LIFE
• PLATUM GAY

WHAT IS THIS "GOLD STAR GAY" STAT THAT ANDY COHEN REFERRED TO?

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.

People aware of this former tegorizatn feel that the term homosexual still rri a negative nnotatn. And many feel that this word plac undue emphasis on sexual activy, or that sounds overly clil.” In fact, the term homosexual was liberately rejected by early gay rights activists bee, acrdg to The New York Tim, “they did not want to be intified as exclively sexual begs.”. For the and other reasons, the term homosexual is wily nsired disparagg and offensive.

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Instead, the terms gay and lbian are generally preferred. Gay, on the other hand, n be ed to scribe a person of any genr who experienc same-sex attractn, although is most often ed to scribe a man who is attracted to men.

The days, the term homosexual is typilly limed to medil ntexts, if ed at all. On June 28, 1969, the New York Cy police raid the Stonewall Inn, a bar equented by gay and genr-nonnformg people (at a time when terms like LGBTQ didn’t yet exist).

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They attempted to arrt the gay and trans bar patrons, which started a seri of protts agast the police.

GOLD STAR GAY

Partially rponse to Stonewall, 1970, queer activists New York Cy anized a march to Central Park wh the theme “Gay Pri.” A more prehensive history of the Stonewall Rt or the Stonewall Uprisg n be found our Pri Month explaer.

Trans activist Slyvia Rivera particular advoted for the more forceful slogan “Gay power.”. The term queer, like the term homosexual, has a b of a troubled history.

However, unlike homosexual, has been wily reappropriated by the LGBTQ muny as a label. Queer lerally means “strange or odd om a nventnal viewpot,” and by at least by the late 1800s, queer was ployed as a rogatory term for an effemate or gay man. In 1990, this effort foced on queer as a llective term for gay and lbian people.

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, & INTERSEX LIFE

Queer was seen as a way to refer to gays and lbians whout beg genr-sentialist or g divisns wh the muny. We have already touched on the terms gay and lbian.

homoromantic: a person who is romantilly attracted to people of the same sex or genr. Andy Cohen wears his "gold star gay" stat wh pri. Lance Bass, on the other hand, is not a GSG, admtg on WWHL that he had been wh women before he me out as gay.

PLATUM GAY

"'Gold-star gay stat' is a term that Andy Cohen ed to scribe his sexualy. He said that he’s gay, and he’s never been wh a woman, so he’s not jt gay — he’s gold-star gay, " Masi told Personal Space. "Someone like Lance Bass, who is also gay, but who has had sex wh women, would not be scribed as gold star gay bee he hasn’t been wh only men.

He’s gay, but he’s been wh women the past. She ntued, "Jt so you know, this isn’t jt a term for gay men.