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This week in Queer Urban Dictionary…
Kris’s Word: Pansexual
Pansexual. Noun.
Defined as an attraction to people of any gender or to people regardless of their gender, with the prefix “pan” coming from the Greek prefix for “all.”
Deeper dive: Basically, if you’re attracted to people of more than one gender, or all genders, you may be pansexual. Some people may use the words bisexual (attraction to more than one gender) and pansexual interchangeably, and others use only one word exclusively to describe themselves. – Trevor Project
Shana’s Word: Molly House
Molly House or molly-house. Noun.
A term used in 18th- and 19th-century Britain for a meeting place for homosexual men and gender-nonconforming people. The meeting places were generally taverns, public houses, coffeehouses, or even private rooms, where patrons could either socialise or meet possible sexual partners.
Deeper dive: Despite the reputation of molly-houses as places having primarily sexual connotations, rather than as social meeting places, some historians are reluctant to classify them specifically as brothels. Rictor Norton, for example, argues that the regular customers could have been in fact mutual friends
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