Category:English gay slang - Wiktnary, the ee dictnary

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• CATEGORY:ENGLISH GAY SLANG
• 35 FRENCH GAY SLANG WORDS YOU NEED TO KNOW
• CATEGORY:BEAR (GAY CULTURE)
• 12 SLANG WORDS FOR GAY – USE THE TERMS TO ADDRS THEM!

CATEGORY:ENGLISH GAY SLANG

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.

” 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.

35 FRENCH GAY SLANG WORDS YOU NEED TO KNOW

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). 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.

Ntie – bear – benr – bottom – bum band – bum chum – bumr – bummer – butch – butt hugger – rpet muncher – tcher – chaser – chickenhawk – chicken hawk – cub – drag kg – dyke – fag – faggot – Fairy – femme – flamer – u – fudge packer – gay – gaylord – girliend – GLBT – hasbian – homo – homo thug – the closet – jobby jabber – lemon – lez – lipstick lbian – mge muncher – mo – nellie – nelly – Peter Puffer – pole smoker – poof – Poofter – power top – puff – queer – shirt lifter – sister – versatile – wasbian. 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. 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.

They believe that the term vers a wi range of feelgs and behavrs, cludg heterosexual or homosexual attractn to persons of the same age group, ct, polygamy, polyandry, btialy, and pedophilia. Many nservative Christians do not acknowledge the existence of a bisexual orientatn, believg peopl' feelgs of attractn to be eher purely heterosexual or homosexual. I was speakg to someone I’m iends wh onle and both of grew up wh a fair amount of German our liv; both of are cur (and me as a gay man) if there is any mon lgbt slang the German language like there is English?

CATEGORY:BEAR (GAY CULTURE)

Dick Lesch, an early gay-rights activist, who is now his eighti, arranged to donate his old workg fil to the archiv of the New York Public Library.

“Had I known how much fun this would be, I’d have done a lot sooner.”In 1959, when Lesch was twenty-four, he left his fay home, Kentucky, for New York Cy, where he found work as a pater, a bartenr, a rator, a journalist, and as the unpaid print of the Mattache Society, one of the first gay-rights anizatns. When the Stonewall rts broke out, three years later, he was the only openly gay reporter on the scene, verg the event for a new gay-focsed magaze lled The Advote.On a recent Friday eveng, Lesch’s buzzer rang. In 1959, he left Kentucky for New York Cy, where he beme the print of the Mattache Society, one of the first gay-rights anizatns.Photograph by Rebec FudalaAt the door stood a burly man wh a shaved head and a chevron mtache.

“We’ll weed out extraneo ems, like bills and Che men.” The rt will be prerved a ncrete reposory, set to sixty-five gre Fahrenhe, unrneath Bryant Park.A py of a 1976 gay guibook, wrten by Lesch, along wh his origal typewrten mancript.Photograph by Rebec Fudala“You have your job cut out for you,” Lesch said.

12 SLANG WORDS FOR GAY – USE THE TERMS TO ADDRS THEM!

“This rd file is great,” he said, flippg through a set of four-by-six x rds on which Lesch had neatly typed out gay slang terms om antiquy.

A “basket” was “the bulge ed by the ans when wearg tight pants.” Some of the fns were more nuanced: an “ntie,” Lesch had wrten, was “an ageg or middle aged homosexual, offtim effemate character,” or “a person of settled meanor who utns agast temperate acts.”“As long as I’m alive, if you have any qutns, I’m around,” Lesch offered.In a filg bet, Bmann disvered a row of manila folrs burstg wh yellowed newsclips. “Clippg fil make me a ltle crazy,” Bmann said, and shut the drawer.Lesch holds up a plastic toy school b, ma the neteen-sixti by the Gay Toy Company. “Every em this apartment has a story,” he says.Photograph by Rebec FudalaNext up was Lesch’s llectn of magaz and newsletters, cludg After Dark (“Oh, bls you—they’re real llector’s ems,” Bmann said); Christopher Street (“We have the archiv”); Female Mimics (“That’s fabulo”); the 1969 Time issue on homosexualy (“Cute”); and the monthly bullet for the Mattache Society.

(Image cred: Alamy)Fifty years ago, the Sexual Offenc Act beme law, crimalisg homosexual acts that took place private between two men over the age of 21. Fna Macdonald looks at a gay slang that beme a form of fiance.“And Gloria ckled, let there be sparkle; and there was sparkle.” It’s a passage om the Bible, but not as we know : this is a faiar le om the Book of Genis as spoken Polari.