Critique my [gay marriage] blurb

[Rye]

Just to clarify, the word gay itself initially had no sexual connotation,

True. Originally it was just a synonym for "happy". The homosexual male community probably adopted it to try and dispell the right-wing BS that being a homosexual meant a life of misery. I could be wrong though.

Well, here's what the dictionary says:

"—Usage note In addition to its original and continuing senses of “merry, lively” and “bright or showy,” gay has had various senses dealing with sexual conduct since the 17th century. A gay woman was a prostitute, a gay man a womanizer, a gay house a brothel. This sexual world included homosexuals too, and gay as an adjective meaning “homosexual” goes back at least to the early 1900s. After World War II, as social attitudes toward sexuality began to change, gay was applied openly by homosexuals to themselves, first as an adjective and later as a noun."

I would think the association with being lively, social, light hearted, bright and showy and the rest of it just ended up sticking.

[Molyneux]

Well, from what I've seen amongst the queer community in Melbourne, gay seems to be a generic term covering all homosexuals, but it's slowly shifting towards referring to males only, with lesbian referring to females.

So gay can refer to all homosexuals (as in "the gay community" or"gay rights"), or it can refer to only male homosexuals (as in GLBT, which stands for "gay, lesbian, bi and transsexual"). Confusing, eh?


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Personally, I'm a fan of 'androsexual', 'gynosexual' and 'bisexual'. They cover all the possibilities without reference to the gender of the person they're applied to - so straight women and gay men are both androsexual.