What Do You Say To “That’s So Gay” and Other Anti-LGBTQ Comments? - Human Rights Campaign

Contents:

• THAT'S GAY
• WHAT DO YOU SAY TO ‘THAT’S SO GAY’ & OTHER ANTI-LGBTQ+ COMMENTS?
• WHAT DO YOU SAY TO “THAT’S SO GAY” AND OTHER ANTI-LGBTQ COMMENTS?
• THE TE MEANG BEHD “THAT’S SO GAY”
• THAT'S SO GAY
• THE 55 PHRAS GAY MEN MOST OFTEN GO THROUGH...
• 'THAT'S SO GAY' PHRASE HAS LASTG IMPACT FOR LGBT YOUTH, STUDY FDS
• "THAT'S SO GAY" IS JT SO WRONG

THAT'S GAY

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WHAT DO YOU SAY TO ‘THAT’S SO GAY’ & OTHER ANTI-LGBTQ+ COMMENTS?

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“Do you know what ‘gay’ means? “It’s not OK at this school to e ‘gay’ disrpectfully to mean somethg is bad. “You may not have meant to be hurtful, but when you e the word ‘gay’ to mean somethg is bad or stupid, is hurtful.

WHAT DO YOU SAY TO “THAT’S SO GAY” AND OTHER ANTI-LGBTQ COMMENTS?

“Usg the word ‘homo’ to tease someone is harassment and is unacceptable. “Even if you didn’t mean to offend people who are gay, is offensive to ll this assignment gay (or queer); if you don’t like somethg, then say you don’t like ! If you have been hearg the phrase “That’s gay” or “no homo, ” take time durg class to make sure that your stunts know what “gay” means and know why is hurtful to e as a ment or put-down.

Be clear that g the word “gay” a negative way is disrpectful. Be clear that g the phrase “That’s gay” is hurtful to other stunts who may have fay members or iends who are LGBTQ.

THE TE MEANG BEHD “THAT’S SO GAY”

For the youngt stunts, keep simple – for example, “the word gay scrib a man and a man or a woman and a woman who love each other. Be explic that l agast hurtful name-llg clu “That’s gay!

THAT'S SO GAY

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This year for Bullyg Preventn Month, download our most sought-after handout, “What Do You Say to ‘That’s So Gay’”?, which teach tors both how and why is important to rpond to anti-LGBTQ ments. Knowg what to say when someone “gay” as a putdown is an sential skill -- not jt for tors, but for everyone as they cultivate rpectful spac hom, workplac and muni across the untry. Wh this, The Talon sh light on the phrase “that’s so gay”.

The Talon: When you hear people sayg “that’s so gay”, how do that make you feel? So, like, if ’s wh my iends and someone says “that’s so gay”; I know ’s a very different meang than a kid who jt tripped and another one said “that’s so gay”, you know what I mean? Vidisha Sharma: I agree wh what Sofia said about nnotatn; if ’s someone gay, like myself, and I make jok like “oh my god that’s so gay” or “hahaha I’m so gay”.

THE 55 PHRAS GAY MEN MOST OFTEN GO THROUGH...

: Also, ’s jt bee people thk ’s quirky to say , like, “cê é tão gay, s viado” and that kd of stuff; ’s bee ’s popular and a lot of people are sayg .

From the terviews, is evint that the people on the other end of “that’s so gay” are hurt and repulsed by the mon e of the phrase.

Some young adults might feel that is okay to e this phrase as a joke or an sult bee don’t affect them, and and feel that“long gone are the tim when gay people were opprsed”, but they are wrong.

'THAT'S SO GAY' PHRASE HAS LASTG IMPACT FOR LGBT YOUTH, STUDY FDS

In the news, ’s mon nowadays to see a child murred ld blood bee they told their parents they were gay, an example beg Anthony Avalos. This 10-year-old boy had e out as gay days before his murr and was found wh severe signs of physil harm cludg malnutrn, cigarette burns, and bis. The police spected this might have been a hate crime for homophobia (Therolf, 1).

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Lguists believe that’s how gay slang started, too. In the Victorian era, male homosexualy wasn’t jt nsired taboo – was illegal. To hi their inti pla sight of other queer people, gay and bisexual men would refer to each other wh nam.

"THAT'S SO GAY" IS JT SO WRONG

Today, “Mary” is still ed as an exprsn or a way to teasgly refer to another gay person.

But the Onle Slang Dictnary c 1960s gay male culture as the earlit known source, particularly rtoonist Joe Johnson’s characters “Miss Thg” and “Big Dick”, which appeared early issu of The Advote. Gay Slang Terms From The Mid-century To The 70s. Homosexualy remaed illegal across the Uned Stat the mid-twentieth century – that is, until Illois beme the first state to crimalize same-sex relatns 1962.

In an act of ristance, unrground gay and lbian bars thrived the 50s and 60s. In the 60s and 70s, gay men even had a “hanky ” – a system that volved wearg bandanas wh lors that signified whether you were a top, bottom, to BDSM, etc. One of the most well-known phras to e out of this time is “iend of Dorothy”, which is for a gay man.