In a revised Media Reference Guide, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) claims the term “homosexual” is “derogatory and offensive.”
The LGBTQ advocacy group described ‘homosexual’ as an “outdated clinical term,” claiming that its historical usage insinuates homosexuality is a disease or psychological disorder.
They further assert terms including “homosexual relations/relationship,” “homosexual couple,” and “homosexual sex” are leveraged by antagonists as tools to degrade LGBTQ people, their relationships, and their lifestyle.
In addition to ‘canceling’ the word “homosexual,” the group’s new guidelines also insinuate that terms like “gay” and “lesbian” are racist as they are “Eurocentric.” Instead, the new guidelines promote the term “same-gender loving.”
“Also known as SGL, this is a term used by some African American people as an Afrocentric alternative to what are considered Eurocentric, or white, identities like gay and lesbian. Coined by activist Cleo Manago in the 1990s, the term and its usage explicitly recognizes [sic] the histories and cultures of people of African descent,” the guidelines state.
The new guidelines received widespread criticism online, including from other homosexual groups. The homosexual group Gays Against Groomers (GAG) slammed the guidelines, stating: “An organization whose name literally stands for ‘Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation’ has now come out and declared the word homosexual to be outdated, derogatory, and offensive. They have replaced the term with ‘Same-Gender Loving,’ completely erasing biological sex, gay people and the decades of progress we fought to achieve in this country.”
While GLAAD erases the term homosexual, it introduces the term "Same Gender Loving" and says that "identities" like gay and lesbian are considered Eurocentric or white. GLAAD also introduces the terms "androsexual" and "gynesexual". pic.twitter.com/zG7bpK1U7D
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