Gay marriage was legalized across the United States on June 26. Many celebrities and celebrities tweeted support to celebrate, which is a big step in the history of human rights! In the past few days when the world is covered by the overwhelming rainbow flag, let’s do a popular science on homosexual vocabulary!
Homosexual
is the first word widely used to refer to homosexuals.
But most comrades believe that homosexual, as a medical word, is cruel and ruthless, with an anti-humanitarian spirit.
From the perspective of homosexual rights, many people who oppose human rights equality will use the word homosexual to create a distance from sexual minority. This kind of medical vocabulary without emotion subconsciously expresses discrimination against sexual minority, believing that they are "sexual inversion" and require medical and scientific experiments to "correct". Therefore, the media now uses gay to avoid disrespect for homosexual groups.
The opposite of this word is sexually expressed:
heterosexual heterosexual (straight person)
bisexual bisexual
narcisexual Narcisexual (ethical origin narcissist)
pansexual pansexual
asexual Asexual
Gay
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Note that in terms of grammar, gay is usually used as an adjective. When talking about whether someone is a gay, he is gay/he is not gay, and rarely says "a gay" or "one gay".
LGBTh
This word is an abbreviation for Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals and Transgender. In the 1990s, because people believed that the word "gay community" could not fully reflect the relevant groups, the term "LGBT" came into being and gradually became popular.
Queer
Queer, "queer", is an umbrella term for the LGBT population. At the end of the 19th century, the term was a derogatory term for homosexuality, contemptuous and insulting. But by the late 1980s, some queer scholars and athletes began to repurpose the term.
Queer arts, queer cultural groups and queer political groups are all related expressions of queer identity.
But for many older people, queer is still a word with a mockery and insulting nature. Most young people also believe that this word has a stronger political significance than LGBT.
Faggot
The insulting name for homosexuality has the meaning of "loser", and can also be used to swear, which is equivalent to saying that someone is stupid.
For example: -Did you see Tom? -Yeah he is a faggot.
In the closet
In the cabinet, describes someone's behavior of keeping his homosexual identity confidential.
Coming out
comes out and publicly admits his homosexual identity. In spoken language, it can also be expressed by out alone.
For example:
John finally comes out to his parents.
John finally comes out to his parents.
My sister just outed me.
My sister exposes my gay identity.
Homophobia
Homophobia, refers to the irrational fear and hatred of homosexual behavior and homosexuals. Although the word comes from psychology, fear of homosexuality is not a psychopathic term. The corresponding adjective is homophobic.
Questioning
The process of exploring people who are puzzled about their gender identity.
Gay pride/LGBT pride
Gay pride refers to a positive attitude taken by LGBT people against social discrimination and violence. Some gay pride movements include gay pride parades, the most common sign is the rainbow or pride flag.
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