Editing American Sign Language (section)

=== Sign variants ===
Most popularly, there are variants of the signs for English words such as "birthday", "pizza", "Halloween", "early", and "soon", just a sample of the most commonly recognized signs with variants based on regional change. The sign for "school" is commonly varied between black and white signers; the variants used by black signers are sometimes called [[Black American Sign Language]].<ref name="Valli 2005 84" /> Social variation is also found between citation forms and forms used by Deaf gay men for words such as "pain" and "protest".<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Blau |first1=Shane |title=Indexing Gay Identities in American Sign Language |journal=Sign Language Studies |date=2017 |volume=18 |issue=1 |pages=5–40 |doi=10.1353/sls.2017.0019 |jstor=26478210|s2cid=149249585 }}</ref>