The Solutn to "Gay" Insults: Freedom of Speech | Psychology Today

Contents:

• IS THERE A “GAY VOICE”?
• THE SOLUTN TO "GAY" INSULTS: FREEDOM OF SPEECH
• DO FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL VLATE THE FIRST AMENDMENT?
• WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT A SEEMGLY FAKE DOCUMENT A GAY RIGHTS CASE
• THIS GAY NGRSMAN JT BLASTED HIS LLEAGU A FIERY SPEECH AND THE TER IS L
• GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
• A FLORIDA CLASS PRINT ULDN’T DISCS BEG GAY HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATN SPEECH – SO HE TALKED ABOUT HIS CURLY HAIR
• GAY RIGHTS AND FREEDOM OF SPEECH

IS THERE A “GAY VOICE”?

Not long after Thorpe broke up wh his boyiend, he began thkg about the way he speaks, and the way other gay men speak, and why both sudnly bothered him so much.

He terviews gay public figur, cludg David Sedaris, Tim Gunn, Don Lemon, and Gee Takei, who have had to listen to themselv for a livg.

Gay adolcents, Thorpe pots out, often learn that the “tell” of their sexualy is their voic, even more so than physily—a limp wrist is easier to straighten out than an flectn. Even wh the gay datg muny (and gay porn), hyper-masculy is habually prized, so self-disgt gets easily turned back outward. Thorpe talks to a straight iend who sounds “gay” (he grew up on an ashram, surround by women), and a gay iend who sounds “straight” (he has jock brothers).

THE SOLUTN TO "GAY" INSULTS: FREEDOM OF SPEECH

Obvly, the ncln—the film’s, and me—is to dissociate the “gay voice” om shame and reattach to pri, but isn’t so easy. “For many gay men, that’s the last vtige, that’s the last chunk of ternalized homophobia, is this hatred of how they sound, ” Dan Savage tells Thorpe. One of the ways gay people tend to pensate, the film suggts, is to adopt the supercil speech patterns of the leisure class, i.

The CNN anchor Don Lemon tells Thorpe that he worked harr to ntralize his Southern black accent than his “gay” accent.

As gays and lbians ga cultural pal, helped along by equaly victori like the one jt hand down by the Supreme Court, “gay voice” will surely evolve, too. There was a recent high profile story the news about an 11-year-old boy who mted suici, apparently bee he uld no longer tolerate beg lled “gay.

DO FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL VLATE THE FIRST AMENDMENT?

Many anti-bully activists sist that anti-bully laws should specifilly mentn sults agast gays and those of non-heterosexual orientns. If be a crime to sult people, then, is hoped, no one will be attacked wh the “gay” sult, and the associated vlence will disappear. One of the problems wh makg illegal to ll someone “gay” is that vlat the First Amendment right to Freedom of Speech.

WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT A SEEMGLY FAKE DOCUMENT A GAY RIGHTS CASE

If people get punished for sultg gays, do you thk they are gog to thk, “Now I rpect gays so much bee I was punished”? If we go to school together, are the same class, and I always treat you this way, you may even bee my iend even though you hate gays.

THIS GAY NGRSMAN JT BLASTED HIS LLEAGU A FIERY SPEECH AND THE TER IS L

They may not know their own te sexual orientatn yet, and they may not even know the sexual meang of the word “gay.

GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

Qutns have been raised as to whether Florida’s so-lled “Don’t Say Gay” bill vlat the First Amendment rights of teachers and stunts public primary schools the state.

A FLORIDA CLASS PRINT ULDN’T DISCS BEG GAY HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATN SPEECH – SO HE TALKED ABOUT HIS CURLY HAIR

But Calvert warned of a very likely “chillg effect, ” where teachers would be cled to censor themselv over fear of retributn om parents, who unr the bill would be granted greater thory to sue school districts believed to be vlatn of “Don’t Say Gay.

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GAY RIGHTS AND FREEDOM OF SPEECH

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