The Art of Gay Insultg on JSTOR

Contents:

• ‘HURTFUL AND SULTG’: FLORIDA TEACHERS REACT TO THE ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL
• GAY PUPILS SULTED BY HOMOPHOBIC PHRAS ED AT SCHOOL
• 15 EVERYDAY WORDS ED AS GAY SLURS DIFFERENT LANGUAG
• WHY IS THE TERM "GAY" USED AS AN INSULT TO MASCULY?
• EDORIAL: STOP SAYG “GAY” AS AN INSULT.

‘HURTFUL AND SULTG’: FLORIDA TEACHERS REACT TO THE ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL

The Art of Gay Insultg on JSTOR. Usg gay as an sult is ok.

When someone “gay” as an sult, I gantee you ’s jt bee of how easy is to say and spell.

Not bee they are g malicly agast gay people. Tons of words have more than one meang, so why not jt look at the dictnary, the word gay ed as an sult means “foolish, stupid, or unimprsive. ” Why not jt accept the new meang and ll a day, after all, the word gay has a send meang already, meang “lighthearted and reee.

GAY PUPILS SULTED BY HOMOPHOBIC PHRAS ED AT SCHOOL

The same as g gay as an sult don’t imply that gay people are bad. I don’t mean that n’t be ed as an anti-gay thg, I thk the negative stigma should be removed and should be accepted as jt another fn of a word.

I try not to e gay as an sult, but shouldn’t be seen as a slur. Patrick Johnson, who teach performance studi and Ain-Amerin studi at Northwtern Universy, and who has wrten about the tradn of sults the gay and black muni, explas: “If someone walks to a room wh a hio drs, but you don’t want to say ’s hio, you might say, ‘Oooh … look at you! It mak sense, then, that the ncept of sha was refed by some of the most margalized people Amerin society: gay men, and, later, straight women of lor, each of whom had to fd socially acceptable ways to munite humor and aggrsn.

”Many people associate sha wh Jennie Livgston’s 1990 documentary “Paris Is Burng, ” about drag-ball culture among gay and transgenr youth — most of them black and Lato — New York Cy the mid-to-late 1980s. He’s ncerned Florida’s recent ntroversial “don’t say gay” bill is dangero, hateful legislatn that pos many risks to LGBTQ youth the state.

15 EVERYDAY WORDS ED AS GAY SLURS DIFFERENT LANGUAG

“Don’t say gay” also grants parents the right to sue for damag and attorney fe if a school district don’t rolve their plat about a child’s tn, which sentially forbids discsn of LGBTQ issu or inti. ”McCracken characterized the bill and py-t legislative efforts spreadg other parts of the US as part of a war on gay cvil rights igned by Republins and is eply ncerned about the negative impacts of the bill on stunts and teachers.

“As a gay man, I fd both hurtful and sultg. It’s hurtful, bee I don’t believe there’s anythg appropriate about my life as a gay man, ” he said. I believe that I’m a good teacher and have posively impacted stunts and that me beg gay not only hasn’t been trimental to their learng, but has probably been helpful for a lot of people – not only LGBTQ+ stunts, but other stunts as well who see that I’m willg to live my life openly and that I believe everyone should be able to live their life wh digny and rpect and we should be treatg each other like fellow humans.

WHY IS THE TERM "GAY" USED AS AN INSULT TO MASCULY?

Florida Republin state senator Dennis Baxley, a sponsor of the bill, remarks on the state senate floor, ma claims of a big uptick the number of children g out as gay and amed the bill as a rponse to that.

“This bill, for me, is a sign of pure hatred, ” said Javier Gomez, a high school senr at iPrep Amy Miami, Florida, and print of his school’s Gay-Straight Alliance club. I knew that I was gay at five years old.

We’re beg left fensels whout the support we need and we are ntug to face homophobia om our ernment. ”Proponents of the “don’t say gay” legislatn are manufacturg smear mpaigns support of expandg the bills to other stat, cludg claims that Disney is attemptg to “sexualize our children” as part of a progrsive LGBTQ agenda. The accatns have been promoted by Chris Rufo, a rightwg thktank fellow who leaked vios of Disney executiv, claimg Disney has a “not so secret gay agenda” is jt a few weeks after Disney faced cricism om employe and the LGBTQ muny for refg to make a statement opposn to Florida’s don’t say gay bill.

EDORIAL: STOP SAYG “GAY” AS AN INSULT.

Rufo prevly worked as a fellow for the Claremont Instute, which has a troublg rerd of anti-gay polics and phg for nversn “therapy”. “I’m gay too so this hs me doubly hard, ” said Jean Eckhoff, a history teacher of middle school and high school stunts Live Oak, Florida, for 17 years.