Who coined the word gay

On Thursday, as the Supreme Court decriminalised homosexuality, reading down the controversial British-era section of the penal code, Mumbai-based Arnab Nandy took to social media to express his joy, as many across the country and the world were doing.

It was around this time that the community started using who coined the word gay word gay to identify itself. Globally, the community preferred gay to homosexual, says Tellis, because the latter had a negative feel to it — it was a more clinical term, suggestive of a medical condition.

As an article on the website of The New England Journal of Medicine mentions, it was only in that homosexuality was deleted from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association, thus changing the view that it was a behavioural disorder.

The LGBTQ have their own vocabulary, one that often varies from city to city, and has taken on regular words that mean something quite different when applied to themselves or used within the community, says Ashok Row Kavi. According to the Washington Post article. The first definition of gay in the Oxford dictionary is: adjective; of a person homosexual used especially of a manthough Rao clarifies that gay is not gender specific, as lesbian is.

A few years back, a petition was started in change. For years homosexuals have been fighting social discrimination and legal challenges. Gay men and women have been branded mentally ill and thrown out of jobs and homes. Hindustan Times By Poulomi Banerjee. Updated on: Sept 21, pm IST.

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