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Gay is a term that primarily refers to a homosexual person or the trait of being homosexual. The term originally meant 'carefree', 'cheerful', or 'bright and showy'. [1]While scant usage referring to male homosexuality dates to the late 19th century, that meaning became increasingly common by the mid-20th century. [2]
The New Oxford American Dictionary [7] says that gay is the preferred term. People with a same-gender sexual orientation generally prefer the terms gay, lesbian, or bisexual. The most common terms are gay (both men and women) and lesbian (women only). Other terms include same gender loving and same-sex-oriented. [4]
Gay and lesbian are the most common alternatives. The first letters are frequently combined to create the initialism LGBT (sometimes written as GLBT), in which B and T refer to bisexual and transgender people. Gay especially refers to male homosexuality, [32] but may be used in a broader sense to refer to all LGBTQ people.
Gay affirmative psychotherapy is a form of psychotherapy for gay, lesbian, and bisexual clients which encourages them to accept their sexual orientation, and does not attempt to change their sexual orientation to heterosexual, or to eliminate or diminish their same-sex desires and behaviors.
The Bishop of Oxford, the most senior Anglican bishop to publicly support gay marriage, said the change represented ‘significant steps forward’.
Twink is gay slang for a man who is usually (but not always) in his late teens to twenties whose traits may include a slim to average physique, a youthful appearance, and little or no body hair. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Twink is used both as a neutral descriptor, which can be compared with bear , [ 8 ] and as a pejorative .
An English definition of the term first appeared in a 1909 edition of the Oxford English Dictionary: "ostentatious, exaggerated, affected, theatrical; effeminate or homosexual; pertaining to, characteristic of, homosexuals". [152]
LGBTQ+ culture is the common culture shared by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer communities. It is sometimes simply referred to as "queer culture" or "gay culture", but the latter term can also be specific to gay men's culture. LGBT culture varies widely by geography and the identity of the participants.