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Contents:
- WHAT DO YOU SAY TO “THAT’S SO GAY” AND OTHER ANTI-LGBTQ COMMENTS?
- WHY AM I "SO GAY?"
- WHAT’S SO BAD ABOUT “THAT’S SO GAY”?
- "THAT'S SO GAY" IS JT SO WRONG
- THAT'S SO GAY
- SYNONYMS FOR SO GAY
- HOW DO I KNOW IF I AM GAY? SIGNS YOU ARE GAY
WHAT DO YOU SAY TO “THAT’S SO GAY” AND OTHER ANTI-LGBTQ COMMENTS?
The phrase “that’s so gay” has tradnally been unrstood as homophobic. Stonewall’s School Report argued this posn, and will be discsed their upg Edutn Conference. Stonewall argu… * so gay for *
The phrase “that’s so gay” has tradnally been unrstood as homophobic. Stonewall argu that the phrase has a harmful effect on young lbian, gay and bisexual people’s tn and well-beg. Yet the ial fdgs om my terviews wh 40 gay youth om four universi suggts a more plex picture, wh no clear agreement on what the phrase means or s effects.
WHY AM I "SO GAY?"
Ever sce middle school, people have asked Thomas Lloyd the same qutn repeatedly. "If I had a dime for every time I was asked, 'Why am I so gay?' I uld probably pay for one cred at Geetown." In this humoro talk, Lloyd explor the trici of social "verg" as a gay man, fdg muny and the importance of inty ownership. * so gay for *
Consir Joe, a 19-year-old gay stunt at an ele universy.
WHAT’S SO BAD ABOUT “THAT’S SO GAY”?
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"THAT'S SO GAY" IS JT SO WRONG
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How are we to unrstand a phrase that olr people fd homophobic, but many younger people do not fd offensive and even e themselv? My tert the phrase “that’s so gay” veloped when I rearched straight male stunts at sixth form lleg.
The young men had openly gay iends, supported gay rights and nmned homophobia.
THAT'S SO GAY
Yet several of them would also say “that’s so gay” when trated.
Given that labellg the stunts homophobic would be ridiculo, was val to nsir how they were g this language and the reasons why. All of the men my rearch sisted that they did not tend to be homophobic when they ed the phrase.
SYNONYMS FOR SO GAY
For them, gay had two distct meangs which they were able to distguish between – when refers to sexual inty and when refers, separately, to somethg beg “bbish”.
Language has evolved and “gay” means somethg different to younger generatns particular ntexts. I argued that straight men’s e of phras like “that’s so gay” uld only be unrstood by three key factors: first, the tent wh which was said; send, the social ntext (homophobic or otherwise); and third, the effect had. “That’s so gay” n be homophobic if is said wh negative tent or wh a homophobic environment.
HOW DO I KNOW IF I AM GAY? SIGNS YOU ARE GAY
But when is said settgs where sexual mori are out, proud and socially clud, and heterosexual men are iends wh their openly gay peers, tak on different meangs. In such a ntext is not homophobic.