Glory Hole In The Dictionary!
Was reading around all the gay news today and came across a pearler! Aparently the term "Glory Hole" has made it into the Canadian dictionary!
Here is a snippet from teh article
"(Toronto, Ontario) As gays and lesbians gain new rights dictionaries are struggling to keep up with changing definitions. The newly published second edition of the Canadian Oxford Dictionary includes a revised definition of the word "marriage" to reflect the existence of same-sex marriage in Canada since June 2003.
The new definition is "the legal or religious union of two people" and makes no mention of "a man and a woman".
"An up-to-date accurate dictionary reflects what words mean," says Katherine Barber, Editor-in-Chief of the dictionary, "and when court rulings in 2003 allowed for same-sex marriage, the traditional sense of the word immediately changed."
Barber has received some criticism for the decision, but stands steadfastly by it. "It is a matter or lexicographical principle," she says. "We would simply be incorrect if we continued to define marriage as being solely between a man and a woman; that is no longer the case in Canada."
The importance of the GLBT community is also reflected in other new additions to the dictionary, the first edition of which was published in 1998. The term "GLBT" itself is new, as is "lesbigay". "Transgender(ed)", which was considered for the first edition, became much more commonly used in the last seven years, and thus made the cut for the second edition. A new meaning was added to the word "pride" to cross-refer specifically to "gay pride", which is also a new entry. The significance of the rainbow symbol is also recognized with an entry for "rainbow flag".
"In addition to our revised definition of marriage, there is a particularly Canadian aspect to our coverage of gay and lesbian vocabulary in that we include the term "two-spirited", used to mean gay or lesbian in the Canadian Aboriginal community," says Barber. She first noticed this word on a City of Toronto bus shelter advertisement promoting tolerance, and on further research decided it deserved to be in the dictionary.
Other gay-related terms in the Second Edition of the Canadian Oxford Dictionary include bareback, bi-curious, civil union, co-parenting, cruisy, gaydar, glory hole, leatherman, lipstick lesbian, and pink triangle."
Way to go Canada!!
Robbie :)
Posted: Friday 16th July 2004, 6:12 PM
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