Queer Signs | Update
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- This is kind of an update of my original video. Some signs have new ones, some have changed, and this is simply the words - no explanations. A list of what is in this video is below, and my original video can be found here: • Queer Signs
Words that appear in this video:
- Queer
- Asexual
- Aromantic
- Agender
- Bicurious
- Bisexual
- Butch, femme
- Cisgender
- Demiromantic/demisexual
- Drag queen
- Drag king
- Feminine-presenting, masculine-presenting
- Gay
- Gender
- Gender expression
- Genderfluid
- Gender identity
- Gender non-conforming
- Genderqueer
- Heterosexual/straight
- Intersex
- Lesbian
- Nonbinary
- Pansexual
- Questioning
- Transgender
- Transitioning
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- Advocate
- Ally
- Cisnormativity
- Closeted
- Coming out
- Heteronormativity
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Certified ASL interpreter here to say THANK YOU for this video! I’m interpreting for an LGBTQ training soon and want to be respectful to the community and go in prepared with the most up to date and appropriate signs. This has been incredibly helpful!!
Thanks so much! My partner and I practised along with you over our coffee and we can now show off our "bisexual pride" and "lesbian pride"! Love these videos
Catch me practicing genderfluid over and over. I am so greatful to you for making this video. I'm not deaf but I sign a lot because sometimes I have trouble expressing things in words or my anxiety gets the best of me and so it's great that I can continue to jokingly call my fiends straight :)
It made me so happy that you included aro, ace, and romantic attraction!
Thank you so much for this. I am taking ASL at my high school and realized that a lot of the ASL 2 class is part of the lgbt+ community. So I started looking for some queer signs just to learn them. Once I watched all of your videos and knew the signs I asked if I could teach on one of our free days. My teacher suprisingly said yes, so next week I get to teach all of our ASL 2 classes lgbt+ signs. It is really exciting and I can't wait.
update? :D
Thank you so much for this! I’ve been trying to help my 8 year old (and myself) learn to sign. They are non-binary so I’ve been looking for signs to help them with the binary aspect of learning from classes and books (boy/girl, brother/sister, mom/dad, etc) as well as queer pride signs. I also found this in terms of non-binary: “This sign is the signs for “not” and “binary” put together. Make a thumbs up and move your thumb from under your chin to away from your chin. Then make a peace sign with both hands (make a fist without your pointer and middle fingers) and tap your matching fingertips together.” This was very useful seeing as at this age my kid’s spelling abilities are pretty much nonexistent. I’m about to check out the rest of your channel, but if you have not done so, can you do a video for gender neutral signs? Things like parent, child, grandparent, person, etc. Some of these seem to be debatable as well.
That's fantastic! I think that can be a good alternative while fingerspelling isn't a strong point. Though I'm not sure how I feel about that sign, I've seen it before. That sign for binary is also used to mean pair, partner (in specific contexts), couple (in a romantic context), etc... I'd love it (and much prefer) if there was a single sign to mean nonbinary, because I feel like that identity shouldn't rely on having the prefix of "not" in it.
you sound like such an awesome mom :) thanks for supporting your kid, I know it’s technically the bare minimum but you’re putting in the effort and I know your kid is gonna appreciate that so much. This was such a heartwarming comment to read as a queer adult
Thanks! Always appreciate your updates and discussions on this topic!
Hey! Thanks for the update on some of signs! I am from Oklahoma, a part of the Bible Belt.. So, I don't have much of access to the resources with the signs for the LGBTQ+ community like this. It helps a lot, I am able to show this video to anyone who ask.
Psst. Rogan, where do you get your shirt? I love it.
Annie Elainey, a TH-camr, does campaigns on Bonfire to sell these every once in a while! I don't know when they'll be doing one again.
I love your videos, but this was a lot easier for me to follow than some of the vlogs, because you had both hands free! My ASL isn't great, but I'm practicing.
THANK YOU for this!!!!!
i just watched your other video and i want to say again thank you so much for signing and putting the captions. I love learning asl and since most of my friends and I are part of the lgbtqia+ community, I really wanted to watch videos and learn.
You are so welcome!
I adore this!!! Thank you so much!!
Thank you. The best video I have watched to learn from. The way you teach is very easy to follow. TY
i love u thank u so much for this amazing lesson 🌈🤟
So informative! :D
Thank you for this!!!
I love how the sign for transgender is the same in BSL. Also the second sign for drag queen looks like the BSL sign for queer, and the drag king sign looks like the sign for French/France 😂
So my signing is hecking rough, but I was trying to figure out how to sign "asexual" to my friend and I ended up making up my own for it - make a circle with your hand, make it bigger and then split it into two circles 😂 I know we can't self replicate yet but god dam, I'm working on it. I dunno, I felt like a genius, we can finger spell ace but I thought the double and split was funny
Great content!!!
Very helpful! Could you point me toward additional LGBTQ+ vocabulary resources? For example, what's the correct sign for "partner"?
Thank you so much for these! Are there signs for more slang terms in the community, like, for example, twink? I haven't been able to find anything and I was just wondering if a lot of terms are fingerspelled or if they have actual signs. Thanks again!
In my experience, most of them are spelled.
Hi, today is January 1st 2024. Happy New Year! I can see your time was 2020. I don’t know if you could answer my question. My question is about Queen/LBGT+ (Japan/Toronto). You showed your sign language. I see that. My interpreter showed me same exactly like yours. Now you said Japan/Toronto as Toronto is borrowing Japan. I understand that. I’m wondering is USA okay to use that sign language like you did? Let me know if you can. Thank you 😊
I've seen "coming out" signed with index finger behind palm in b hand, rotated to have index finger in front of palm out b hand (like a rotating "show", sort of). Is this not used now?
The sign this person used is the old sign. The one you are referring to is the newer one. (perspective from St. Louis D/d/Hoh LGBT community.)
That’s a new one for me, I haven’t seen it used here in the PNW.
Thank you!
Hey how are you today and I just want to know have you ever interview with other deaf gay men or drag queen yet ?
I have been sharing this video with my interpreter coworkers to use at work. Do you happen to have an updated version? Have there been many changes since you made this video? I want to make sure I’m using the most current signs. Thank you so much!
Wow, I was thinking didn't I just make this video? I didn't realize a year had already passed by! There hasn't been an update, because all of the signs are the same. Certain ones, I'd change depending on context, but what's in this video is all good to use and still current.
I love the way you finger spell
Hey Rogan, I've just come across your videos and want to thank you so much :) I'm from Australia so we use Auslan here, not ASL, but given the amount of loan signs that Auslan has from ASL it's great to look at what ASL has for all these "new" terms. If I tell my friends about you and your channel, what pronouns do you use? I'd have assumed he/him but I saw in another video that you are grey-gender, so I thought I'd double-check
I actually posted a video just a couple days ago about this! "International Transgender Day of Visibility" is the video, but to answer your question, I use both he/him and they/them :)
I think your videos are super cool, i can hear out of one my ear and my right ear I'm death in ...I think or what the doctor think it hard to tell it deform so it all there just folded guess you say idk it's weird but I'm slowly Losingg hearing they said when I was little I wasn't gonna hear by the time I was 5 but I'm a teenager still going strong but now there saying by time I'm 20 I might not so i been slowly learning sign language with your videos since they don't offer it at school so thank you 😊 I doubt you see this but there might be a slim chance haha 😅
Thank you, I appreciate you watching! You can find a lot of other deaf TH-camrs to watch too to help with your signing skills!
I’m queer & hoh. I haven’t been sign a lot recently. I learned sign language in school. ~ASL intermediate knowledge
respect!! :)
I’ve also seen the L hand lgbtq+ sign at a gsa conference in calgary ab
It seems to be spreading in use across Canada, at least from what I know!
I've also seen lesbian signed with the L handshape, but the chin in between the thumb and index finger
A lot of lesbians I know in the Deaf community don't like that version because it is a directly sexual reference. I'm in Oregon.
I have learned from folks in the Deaf community as well as when I was in school for interpreting that the sign you're referring to is an old sign and is no longer used or preferred.
Thanks for showing me aromantic! I didn't think i would find it so I just said that asexual was enough lmao.
Just a question. I was told by a few not to sign gay - only to fingerspell it. Has that changed?
My (hearing, non-signing) daughter identifies as asexual. Would you fingerspell this? I've been practicing my ASL around her... her "sign" for "asexual" is rather more humerous than fingerspelling, but I'm new at learning ASL and am not sure if that would be appropriate if I shared that with my deaf friend. (Personally, I think she'll think it's hilarious, but I'd hate to offend!)
Gracias!😻SH
The first version of 'queer' I learned was a gesture like brushing your hair over your ear with just your middle finger, but the person who told me that said it was very much a reclaimed derogatory word - I'm having trouble finding anything about that sign now, though. Any knowledge of that way of signing queer?
Yes, that sign is a derogatory sign that's been reclaimed, and to only be used by the queer community itself. I believe Alex Leffers says that in his video of LGBTQ+ signs.
Sign is so hard....How you even learn to move your hands like that,I really want to be able to use sign but with my hands I can`t even do some of the gestures
It takes practice! I grew up signing, so it's always felt natural to me. I'd flip it around and say speaking is hard! How do you learn to move your mouth and tongue like that? 😊 Just another way of thinking about it!
Hi thanks for sharing this video and I was wondering, as for Non-Binary I have noticed they would be labeled as "they" is there a sign for this? Thank you!1
Pronouns in ASL are all the same - just a finger pointing to the person, into neutral space, or to yourself. "They" is the same if you're referring to one person, but if you're talking about a group, the pointer finger does a sweeping motion to indicate more than one person.
wondering about 2 spirit?? I know it could be FS but PISL has a sign for it. could be interesting.
I don’t know the sign, and I’m not indigenous so I would have to check with deaf indigenous signers!
Is the sign for pride just meant to signify the concept in general, or can it be used to refer to the event also?
Yeah, it can be used for both.
I was wondering, have you seen and read the post by Deaf Queer Resource Center about the sign for queer and how it wasn't appropriate because of the history of "Queer"? Just curious.
I have, and I'm not sure why I didn't include fingerspelling for that word in this video. Here, I'm mainly showing what is out there, what people use, for the knowledge of people who watch this video. I personally have mixed use of fingerspelling and rainbow, I tend to spell more than use the rainbow now. I find it depends on the context, who I'm talking to.
I completely understand where Drago is coming from, and I definitely agree that we need to remember the history behind the word, because that is extremely important for the thriving of our community. Queer history is one of my areas of interest, and I know I still have so much more to learn. I'm still blown away by how little a lot of queer people know (not their fault!), and want to make more videos specifically about queer history.
I was signing "rainbow" well before this post, since around 2015, because it's what they use in International Sign, and I was just tired of spelling it all the time (at the time, I was studying abroad, using the word A LOT and very done with fingerspelling because I'd gotten used to International Sign not fingerspelling much). However, I would LOVE to see a specific sign created for this word, and I will happily use it when one comes up! Same goes for nonbinary!
I can't find DQRC's post, but I found Drago's original post for those who want to read it: facebook.com/dragonsani/posts/10156689375450428
I’ve seen nonbinary as the sign for trans but done with both hands, one on either side of the chest.
Could an alternative for aroace be ATTRACTION-NONE?
Definitely, but it would obviously be context-dependent. As I think about it, it's not a perfect solution, but it would be a valid option.
I'm taking ASL now, and early on we learned GAY and LESBIAN. However, we were told the sign for GAY may be offense, and it's safer to fingerspell it. However, I see you do both here. Any advice/input? Thank you!
I do both, because they are both signs that are still used, but generally the gay deaf community will only fingerspell it. It's up to you which you want to use, but I'd recommend fingerspelling it.
@@RoganShannon13 Thank you so much! I didn't see this reply until now because I didn't realize that TH-cam only gives notifications....on TH-cam, lol. I appreciate your advice :)
I wonder why aro or ace is fingerspelled, when having sign for romantic and sexual. (ex: demi romantic or demi sexual have the sign)
Because aro and ace are both abbreviations and they have distinct meanings, while you can’t abbreviate demi. It could mean either one, so I gave those additional signs so it’s more distinct.
i thought the way to sign gay was to bring the g down your chin. move it down your chin. is that another way to sign it or it is just the wrong way to sign it?
I’ve never seen that, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t a sign! I’ve only seen it spelled or tapping the chin.
From the little research that I’ve done many lgbtq signs have different signs all over, my recommendation is to try to see all different ways that they are signed and see if any match up
Does the rainbow sign only mean queer in the general sense, as in LGBT+, or can you use it to refer to one's identity/sexuality?
You can use it for both! Though I think people tend to spell it if they’re referring to their identity.
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Polyamorous or polyamory? I know a sign for this, but I learned it 5 years ago... thanks!
I actually don't know of a specific sign for these terms, what did you learn?
Is there a different sign for pan-romantic? or is it the same as pan-sexual?
I'd spell PAN then sign romantic.
is there a sign for sapphic and achillean?
Not that I know of. These terms aren't that common yet in the wider queer community, so that usually means they're even less known in the deaf community. I would generally sign sapphic as WOMAN-ATTRACT-WOMAN, achillean as MAN-ATTRACT-MAN. Attract as in "into this thing." Does that make sense?
@@RoganShannon13 got it, thanks so much!
Can you explain us again what these mean? A just simple sentence for example: Gay means men to men in love or sex whatever. Unfortunately, not everyone understands. Some of them I don't know what they mean...
lesbian = females attracted to females
bisexual = people attracted to all genders, but with preference
pan = people attracted to all genders but without preference
demi rom = people who have no romantic feelings for someone else until the become friends. the romantic feelings are characterized as a secondary attraction
demi-sexual = same a demi romantic, but sexual feelings instead of romantic being the secondary attraction
closeted = someone hiding or not yet making public their sexual identity or orientation
Honestly, I won’t be doing that. The definitions can easily be looked up for any of these words, and the intention of this video is to simply show the signs.
Thank you mb g-e for adding on!
@@RoganShannon13 My pleasure. Always happy to help!
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i’ve been trying to look for signs like top vers and bottom but been having a hard time finding those signs! if anyone knows pls help
uhh, if you search for videos about sexual signs, I remember watching two guys signing about gay sex signs and so
now, everytime i snap my fingers i sign gay. i have reached godly powers
Is there one for Omnisexual?
Not yet. I've never met anyone in the deaf community that either uses that term or mentioned it, it's a bit more obscure.
@@RoganShannon13 Right, thanks
Confused why Asexual is ACE. There is no C in the word. ?
You're right that there's no C, but it's a phonetic shortening of the word. Ase sounds pretty much the same as ace, so people use that because people know how to pronounce ace, but not ase and ase isn't a real word.
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Idk why I expected auditory talking
Whats nonbinary?
It's an umbrella term for people who identify as neither male nor female.
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