GAY SLANG 101 – JJ Malibu

Contents:

• GAY SLANG 101
• GAY LGO DICTNARY
• POLARI: THE LANGUAGE GAY MEN ED TO SURVIVE
• LEARNG GAY LGO: A STARTER GUI!
• GAY DICTNARY

GAY SLANG 101

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. 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. ” 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.

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

GAY LGO DICTNARY

Partially rponse to Stonewall, 1970, queer activists New York Cy anized a march to Central Park wh the theme “Gay Pri. 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. Queer was seen as a way to refer to gays and lbians whout beg genr-sentialist or g divisns wh the muny.

Although Lbian, Gay, Bi, Trans, and Queer (LGBTQ+) people have been around for lennia, the evolutn of language means that those wh the muny ntue to fd more clive and accurate terms to bt scribe themselv, as Stonewall’s ever-evolvg glossary of terms prov.

POLARI: THE LANGUAGE GAY MEN ED TO SURVIVE

Aromantic people are also the ace tegory and, siarly to asexual people, may intify as gay, lbian, heterosexual, or queer to fe the directn of their attractn to others.

”Gay: The word “gay” is generally ed to scribe someone who is sexually or romantilly attracted to people of the same genr. Homosexual: This antiquated term was ed historilly to refer to people who were attracted to people of the same genr, but ’s rarely ed today.

“Homosexual” n also be found antiquated medil ntexts that nsir same-sex attractn to be a medilly dangero ndn. ” Beg trans or transgenr is unnnected to sexual orientatn, so a trans person may intify as gay, straight, lbian, or whatever is right for them the same way a cisgenr person would. Transsexual: Like “homosexual, ” “transsexual” is largely an outdated, historil term ed to refer to someone whose genr is different om what they were assigned at birth.

LEARNG GAY LGO: A STARTER GUI!

While often ed rogatorily, is also reclaimed affirmatively by some lbians and gay women as a posive self inty term. Often nflated wh sexual attractn, romantic attractn, and/or spirual (got) – noun: rogatory term referrg to a gay person, or someone perceived as queer.

While often ed rogatorily, is also ed reclaimed by some gay people (often gay men) as a posive -group term. This [medil] term is nsired stigmatizg (particularly as a noun) due to s history as a tegory of mental illns, and is disuraged for mon e (e gay or lbian stead).

LGBTQ is Lbian Gay Bisexual Transgenr and Queer and/or Qutng (sometim people at a + at the end an effort to be more clive); GSM is Genr and Sexual Mori; DSG is Diverse Sexuali and Genrs. Other optns clu the ialism GLBT or LGBT and the acronym QUILTBAG (Queer [or Qutng] Uncid Intersex Lbian Trans* Bisexual Asexual [or Allied] and Gay [or Genrqueer]). Ken Cage, Gayle: The Language of Kks and Queens, A History and Dictnary of Gay Language South Ai.

GAY DICTNARY

Homosexualy, heterosexualy and bisexualy n refer eher to: feelgs of sexual attractn to another person, or to the actual sexual practice between people of the same genr. We remend that the terms homosexual or heterosexual never be ed isolatn, but always be intified as referrg to eher feelg or practic. Gays, lbians, soclogists, psychologists, human sexualy rearchers, members of liberal and some male fah groups e this term to dite a person's feelgs of sexual attractn to mal and femal.