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LGBTQ slang, LGBTQ speak, queer slang, or gay slang is a set of English slang lexicon used predominantly among LGBTQ people. It has been used in various languages since the early 20th century as a means by which members of the LGBTQ community identify themselves and speak in code with brevity and speed to others.
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]
SAGA, meaning Sexuality And Gender Acceptance [115] /Awareness [116] /Alliance [117] /Association [118] – unspecific general term, used as an alternative to both LGBT and GSA QPR, standing for queerplatonic relationship , is a relationship that is not solely romantic or platonic. [ 119 ]
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]
LGBTQ (also commonly seen as LGBT, [1] LGBT+, LGBTQ+, LGBTQIA, and LGBTQIA+) is an initialism for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer or questioning.It is an umbrella term, originating in the United States, broadly referring to all sexualities, romantic orientations, sex characteristics, and gender identities that are not heterosexual, heteroromantic, cisgender, or endosex.
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.
The gay (term) article is indeed about all meanings of the word, and it is a separate article, so it is being linked to from the disambiguation page directly (i.e., there is a separate entry for "gay (term)"). Of all meanings of the word "gay", we only have articles about "homosexuality" and "homosexual orientation", so those are being linked ...