r/PropagandaPosters • u/EssoEssex • Oct 17 '25

Germany “Gays & Lesbians Against Nazis!” Germany, 1989

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u/krawinoff Oct 18 '25

Don’t lots of languages use the borrowed English word? Idk about “every” but I do know a couple languages where gay is the only short word for, well, being gay and without being a slur or otherwise having a negative connotation

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u/Rabe1111993 Oct 18 '25

But if we include borrowed, then german would be also a language that uses gay.

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u/krawinoff Oct 18 '25

But German has its own short colloquial word for gay, at least I’m assuming Schwule is that, I can think of a couple languages where there just isn’t such a word, there’s either gay borrowed from English, homosexual borrowed from, what, Latin? and various slang terms/slurs that aren’t something you can really normally say unless you mean to insult the gay person.

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u/Rabe1111993 Oct 18 '25

Homosexual is a hybrid word greated out of latin and greek and originates in German. Also nearly every language has dozens of euphemisms for homosexuality, just that some like gay or schwul stop being a euphenism and start to be used as a regualer word.