allows activists to re-appropriate a label while making the incisive comment that heterosexual people are no better than them.

It’s hard to tell when exactly G.A.Y., a backronym for good as you, caught on in the LGBTQ rights movement, but the 1994 founding of Good As You Bangalore, an LGBTQ support group in India, helped cement it as a sometime slogan for sexual equality. Learn why in our recent new words update, “ Releases Its Biggest Update Ever.” However, in large part due to reclamation by Gay Rights activists over the decades, gay has since become a preferred term to refer to gay men-and preferred over homosexual, a term that comes with a lot of painful baggage. Historically, gay has been used as an extremely offensive slur, evening evolving into a catch-all insult for “stupid” in the 1980–90s. The term gay has referred to someone who exhibits sexual desire or behavior toward a person or persons of their same sex since at least the 1930s.