Glossary of LGBT Terms

http://www.uwo.ca/pridelib/family/glossary/

The LGBT community has been very resourceful in adapting traditional vocabularies and creating vivid new terms to express our distinctive experiences, outlooks, and interests. Consider the phrase “family pride.” It means “reverence for noble ancestors” when you’re talking straight; but when you’re talking queer, it can take on a host of new meanings — from “celebration of sexual diversity” to “defiance of heterosexism” to “delight in raising a new generation on our own terms” (e.g. “When the drag queens joined the lesbian moms in a rendition of We Are Fa-mi-ly during the Dyke March, a wave of family pride swept over the crowd”). In the glossary you will find a list of words and phrases relevant to LGBT family life, including academic terms, slang expressions, historical vocabulary, literary coinages, subcultural usages, political buzzwords, and common abbreviations.

I'd Leave the Country, but My Wife Won't Let Me

http://www.villagevoice.com/2004-02-24/news/i-d-leave-the-country-but-my-wife...

By Laura Conaway Tuesday, Feb 24 2004

My loved ones and I were standing at the wrong end of a government’s gun—not literally, of course, but in a way that threatens our deepest understanding of our lives. Our hopes for a happy, loving, ordinary marriage had become a national threat. George Bush had called for an amendment against same-sex marriage.

Cunt: The History of the C-Word

http://www.matthewhunt.com/cunt/index.html

From Matthew Hunt

Abstract

“[A] nasty name for a nasty thing” (Francis Grose, 1796)
“[T]he mother of all nasty words” (Andrew Goldman, 1999)
“[T]he nastiest four-letter word” (Tom Aldridge, 2001)
“[T]he nastiest, dirtiest word” (Sarah Westland, 2008)

Very little has been written about the word ‘cunt’. The longest article so far published is an entry in The Dictionary Of Invective, in which Hugh Rawson calls ‘cunt’ “[t]he most heavily tabooed of all English words” (1989). Rawson’s article is five pages long, though this ancient and uniquely powerful word surely deserves a more extensive analysis.