The word “GAY” has a long history in the English language, but why did “GAY” stop meaning “happy” and start referring “same sex relationships?” Watch this week’s episode of Origin of Everything to find out.
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Works Cited:
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/23/fashion/gays-lesbians-the-term-homosexual.html
https://www.out.com/out-exclusives/2016/8/17/lavender-linguistics-queer-way-speak
“Review of Lavender Linguistics” Greg Jacobs
https://www.glaad.org/reference/offensive
http://www.apa.org/topics/lgbt/orientation.aspx
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-43795440
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/ideology/anti-lgbt
https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/supreme-court-allows-mississippi-anti-lgbt-law-stand-n835721
https://www.aclu.org/other/why-sodomy-laws-matter
Gay is Good: The Life and Letters of Gay Rights Pioneer Franklin Kameny ed. Michael G. Long
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/carlos-a-ball/gay-is-good_b_558484.html
“gay, adj., adv., and n.”. OED Online. March 2018. Oxford University Press.
William Leap Works
Beyond the Lavender Lexicon: Authenticity, Imagination, and Appropriation in Lesbian and Gay Languages
Word’s out: Gay Men’s English
Judith Butler
Gender Trouble
Giving an Account of Oneself
Other Sources:
Language sexualities and Desires ed. Helen Sauntson and Sakis Kyratzis
Out in Public Reinventing Lesbian / Gay Anthropology in a Globalizing World ed Ellen Lewin and William L Leap
Queering Language ed. Tommaso M. Milani
Handbook of Language and Gender ed. Janet Holmes
New Sources on Standardized testing:
https://www.oecd.org/pisa/pisa-2015-results-in-focus.pdf
http://www.eqao.com/en/about_eqao/media_room/communication-docs/EQAO-US-comparison.pdf
https://www.edglossary.org/standardized-test/