Gay basic
Ihearit all the time amongst my gay friends, "She's a basic bitch," or just, "Basic." The apply of the insult has become borderline epidemic, and I am not really sure why. First of all, it's not really our word to apply, and second, it's a pretty lazy insult to throw around, and you guys are way more creative than that.
It's doubtful that you are unfamiliar with that all this noise about "basic" is about, but just in case New York Magazine's Noreen Malone summarized the root of the insult pretty well, coming to the conclusion that women calling each other basic is the result of, "a male hierarchy of culture, and the doctrine that the self is an essentially surface-level formation."
Malone, summarizing countless posts defining the term, says "basic" is, "someone who owns things like Uggs and North Face and leggings likes yogurt and fears carbs (there is an exception for brunch), and loves her friends, unless and until she secretly hates them She bought the Us Weekly with Lauren Conrad's wedding on the cover. She Pins She doesn't, apparently, drawn-out for more."
Notice how each and every one of those things is an item or ephemeral, or just stuff that can be thrown away? It's bec
Some basic gay-tiquette
Good on you for aiming for social grace even when other people are being clumsy.
You probably already know this, but it’s going to come about in your life that people are going to have feelings for you that you don’t share; have interest in doing things with you that you don’t have an interest in. Sometimes, those people will be people you don’t like very much in general, or don’t care much about, and when that’s the case, taking a hand over can be pretty effortless. Other times, you will really like those people, or will feel for them, and may even wish you did hold the feelings you don’t have, either because you do really like them – but chemistry is a wild card, and we can’t make it happen when it isn’t there – or because you wish, for their sake, you did hold those feelings because you’d really like for them to have what they want.
It can also happen that some people will believe that if you are someone who could potentially be attracted to them, simply by virtue of your sexual orientation (A term – like lgbtq+, heterosexual, bisexual, queer, direct, lesbian, gay, asexual – used to describe a person’s usual or current pattern of emotional, r
List of LGBTQ+ terms
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Abro (sexual and romantic)
A word used to portray people who have a fluid sexual and/or intimate orientation which changes over time, or the course of their life. They may use different terms to describe themselves over time.
Ace
An umbrella term used specifically to describe a lack of, varying, or occasional experiences of sexual attraction. This encompasses asexual people as well as those who identify as demisexual and grey-sexual. Ace people who experience lovey-dovey attraction or occasional sexual attraction might also apply terms such as same-sex attracted, bi, lesbian, straight and queer in conjunction with asexual to describe the direction of their love-related or sexual attraction.
Ace and aro/ace and aro spectrum
Umbrella terms used to portray the wide group of people who experience a lack of, varying, or occasional experiences of amorous and/or sexual attraction, including a lack of attraction. People who identify under these umbrella terms may describe themselves using one or more of a wide variety of terms, including, but not limited to, asexual, ace, aromantic, aro, demi, grey, and abro. People may also use terms such as gay, bi, lesbian, direct
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What exactly is LGBT? We&#;re talking the basics today on this episode of the Gay Business & Marketing Made Easy podcast!
This podcast is committed to teaching you how to do business with and marketing to the LGBT community. There is no better place to start than to communicate with you about what exactly LGBT is and what it isn&#;t.
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Acronyms broken down
- LGBT – Sapphic, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender
- GLBT – Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender
- LGBTQ – Lesbian, Gay, Pansexual, Transgender, Questioning
- LGBTQIA – Woman loving woman, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, Intersex, Asexual (or Ally) (These hyperlinks go to Wikipedia definitions of each area. I do not claim that these definitions are entirely accurate, however it’s a good starting point if you are looking for additional communication and resources.)
Links Mentioned in this Show
The Hard Numbers on preference
I like to provide hard data that shows what the people actually prefers. There is a company called Collective Marketing Inc. they are based in San Fr
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