Nearly all homosexual teenagers say they hear the word "gay" beg ed as an sult at school, acrdg to rearch rried out by Stonewall.
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
Stephen O. Murray, The Art of Gay Insultg, Anthropologil Lguistics, Vol. 21, No. 5 (May, 1979), pp. 211-223 * the art of gay insulting *
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.
GAY PUPILS SULTED BY HOMOPHOBIC PHRAS ED AT SCHOOL
Edutors fear the wave of anti-gay laws threaten the supportive environments they try to build for LGBTQ stunts * the art of gay insulting *
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.
15 EVERYDAY WORDS ED AS GAY SLURS DIFFERENT LANGUAG
* the art of gay insulting *
” 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. The same as g gay as an sult don’t imply that gay people are bad.
WHY IS THE TERM "GAY" USED AS AN INSULT TO MASCULY?
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.
EDORIAL: STOP SAYG “GAY” AS AN INSULT.
“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.