LGBT
Related: About this forumIs there a term for a homosexual man? Like lesbian?
All I can think of is gay (which applies to lesbians as well) and homosexual man.
Bad Dog
(2,025 posts)Unfortunately most of them are derogatory, or Polari phrases to avoid detection. Like friend of Dorothy's.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polari
Sometimes though, people get terms wrong with hilarious consequences.
pantsonfire
(1,306 posts)What is the most common though for gay men (faggot?) How long has lesbian been the most common term used?
Bad Dog
(2,025 posts)Fag means cigarette, boy at public school who skivvies for older boys or being tired. (Fagged out.) Faggots are something you eat.
I suppose the most common term her, albeit derogatory is poof.
pantsonfire
(1,306 posts)Bad Dog
(2,025 posts)pantsonfire
(1,306 posts)Bad Dog
(2,025 posts)but not many.
Travis_0004
(5,417 posts)So a woman would be a lesbian, man would be gay
Though changes in the English language, gay could refer to men or women, which is why men dont have their own term.
Festivito
(13,452 posts)Interesting that the word gay has changed.
rwheeler31
(6,242 posts)pantsonfire
(1,306 posts)As in, I like men, but I'm no longer comfortable using the term, gay to describe myself, in this context. I like other men, but I don't want to say I'm gay because it seems to be more exclusive to men, when women who come out say they are gay and a lesbian. We are gay and a....faggot (which perhaps we need to reclaim as a positive word, or is that just like the term gay?).
TexasTowelie
(112,141 posts)MillennialDem
(2,367 posts)refer to a man would be fairy. But that's my age and the fact that I'm not a gay man showing. A gay guy especially one from the 1960s might disagree.
Any other term I can think of refers to a specific type of gay man (ie twink) or are entirely offensive (no good reason to call someone a pillow biter) or could refer to someone in other context (might be gay or totally unrelated). Examples would be nancy (someone being weak or cowardly), queen (obsessive interest in something), homosexual (could be man or woman), etc.
Betty Karlson
(7,231 posts)(it refers to the lesbian-erotic poetry of Psappho of Lesbos, some of Greece's finest verses ever, which were partially written after inspiration from her circle of female companions).
The existence of male homosexuality has never had to be proven - only its morality, acceptability, and full equality. In fact, we are still working on it.
"I am gay" seems to be the male and gender-neutral equivalent of "I am a Lesbian". We might as well use it.
pantsonfire
(1,306 posts)Betty Karlson
(7,231 posts)So if someone is a man, he may as well use those very words that have been used for over sixty years now.