Gay until graduation

There is even a new term — "lugs," lesbians until graduation. A quote from the New York Times: At some colleges, women feel free to experiment with the entire concept of sexual identity. Women of my generation, born between the mids and early s and commonly referred to as the Silent Generation, were brought up expecting we would marry someone like our fathers.

In the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Diamond writes that this tendency to change identities among gay, non-heterosexual women has yielded the joking term "LUG," or "lesbian until graduation," on some college campuses.

This page has been accessed gay marc. Some ultimately choose men. The term "lesbian until graduation" LUG is a comic or pejorative term that can be applied to college women who choose to experiment with gay sex or with adopting a temporary " homosexual or bisexual identity", but ultimately adopt a strictly heterosexual lifestyle.

It is especially often applied to women at all-female colleges. Lesbian until graduation. This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. Imagine, if you will, that being Gay Until Graduation was as acceptable in our society as being a LUG.

The slang terms lug (Lesbian until graduation) and gug (gay until graduation) indicate the awareness (even in the homosexual community) that SSA for young people can be a passing phenomenon that disappears as one matures. At Smith College last year there was a "questioning" support group, for students who were wondering whether they were lesbians.

They use the term GUG, gay until graduation. See also: hasbian HAZ. A former lesbian who is now in a heterosexual relationship. The LGBT slang terms lesbian until graduation (LUG), [1] gay until graduation (GUG), and bisexual until graduation (BUG) are used to describe primarily women of high school or graduation age who are assumed to be experimenting with or adopting a temporary lesbian or bisexual identity, but who will ultimately adopt a heterosexual identity.

In some cases these women may hide their experimentation from parents or guardians. The rate of sexual abuse among people with SSA is very high. Template:Message box. The term is often misunderstood to convey a sense that lesbianism is purely a matter of changeable sexual preferencewhen instead it is quite distinct from lesbianism in that it is consciously elective and temporary behavior.

Lisa M. Diamond of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City found that, among a group of women ages 18 to 25, one quarter of those who said they were lesbian or bisexual no longer identified themselves as such five years later.

Beware of abuse. Some of these women hide their sexual orientation on leaving college, fearing harassment. See How to Edit and Style and How-to for help, or this article's talk page. Some women will be of the “lesbians until graduation” (LUG) variety while others credit collegiate crushes with opening their eyes to the wonders of the woman for the rest of their lives.