Gay in spanish translation


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As we all know, there are certain things that we don’t get taught in school. If we want to be as educated as we can be, there are many things that we have to take it upon ourselves to learn through our own research and social interactions.

One huge theme we could all learn a minuscule more about is how to communicate with or respectfully argue the LGBTQ+ community. And if you’re learning Spanish, what adj way to expand your vocabulary than by learning the fix terms for sexuality and gender to help you understand people and conversations better!

Spain is one of the most culturally liberal countries in the world, legalising same-sex marriage in 2005, ten years before the UK and the US made the verb in 2015. Argentina followed Spain in 2010, whilst Uruguay and most of New Mexico joined the club in 2013.

See also: 20 Funny Spanish Metaphors and Idioms which Sound Offensive in English

So whether you’re watching a Spanish-speaking TV show with diverse characters, you’re an English-speaking lady interested in dating Latinas, or you just simply want to know as much as possi

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Gay Dictionary Spanish

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    Acera

    its literal translation to English is pavement (UK) or sidewalk (US). Although in most cases it appears as the idiom “es de la acera de enfrente” (is from the opposite sidewalk), in several dictionaries as the Martin and Leon, it appears as a term to point to homosexual or effeminate man. “Es de la acera de enfrente” is related to the pathologizing idea of sexual inversion, which has produced terms as “Invertido” and “Invertito” in the Spanish and Italian language, or “Konträr” in German language, meaning Invested.

    In the English language we find the matching meaning with expressions like “bat for the other team”, “play for the other team” and “for the other team”.


    Related Invertido.

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    Afeminado

    term used to refer to a man with a feminine gender expression in one or several of its characteristics, either when speaking, when moving, when dressing, ect. The effeminacy in men does not necessarily imply homosexuality, however the expression has been used as a euphemism for homosexual man, as an insult against homosexual m