What it usually means: Mental or physical activity as a means of earning income; employment. What it means to gay men: A congratulatory declaration of support, praise or approval usually yelled with passion. Made popular by RuPaul; appropriated into pop culture by gay icon Britney Spears. What it usually means: A school that typically comprises grades 9 through 12, attended after primary school or middle school.
“Gay” or “Homosexual”: the words we use can divide public opinion on civil rights
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Gay is a word used to describe someone who is homosexual. Today, the word usually means a person who is sexually attracted to people of the same sex and often that person can be also romantically interested in people of the same sex. A gay person can be a male who likes other males or a female who likes other females. The word "gay" can mean any homosexual person, but sometimes it's used just for homosexual men. In that case, homosexual women are called " lesbian " instead. Sometimes, people use the word "queer" to mean the same thing as "gay" when talking about sexuality.
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There are slang words like "cray cray" -- meaning someone or something that is really crazy -- that are popular among teenagers but leave older people bewildered. There also are phrases like "Indian giver" that boomers might have said when they were kids -- but that today are understood to be obviously racist. Recently an acquaintance used the word "boner" to describe a mistake, not realizing that today the word is more often used to describe a penis when it's hard. Words change all the time and over time.