Gay Jok for a Funny Day - Friendly Gay One Lers

Contents:

• THE SOLUTN TO "GAY" INSULTS: FREEDOM OF SPEECH
• THE TE MEANG BEHD “THAT’S SO GAY”
• WOULD BE A MISTAKE TO E THE WORD "GAY" BS OR AMIL WRGS? [DUPLITE]
• ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER
• DEFINITIONS FOR GAYGEɪGAY
• GAY
• GAY JOK

THE SOLUTN TO "GAY" INSULTS: FREEDOM OF SPEECH

Pri, formerly known as Gay Pri, is a regnn of LGBTQ inty, affirmatn of equal rights, and celebratn of visibily, digny, and diversy the LGBTQ muny. While the word homosexual is still ocsnally ed some ntexts, you might have noticed that don’t make an appearance any versn of the LGBTQ acronym. As our age note on the term stat, “up until 1973, homosexualy was listed The Diagnostic and Statistil Manual of Mental Disorrs (DSM), psychiatry’s standard reference on the classifitn of mental illns.

People aware of this former tegorizatn feel that the term homosexual still rri a negative nnotatn. ” In fact, the term homosexual was liberately rejected by early gay rights activists bee, acrdg to The New York Tim, “they did not want to be intified as exclively sexual begs. Gay, on the other hand, n be ed to scribe a person of any genr who experienc same-sex attractn, although is most often ed to scribe a man who is attracted to men.

On June 28, 1969, the New York Cy police raid the Stonewall Inn, a bar equented by gay and genr-nonnformg people (at a time when terms like LGBTQ didn’t yet exist). They attempted to arrt the gay and trans bar patrons, which started a seri of protts agast the police.

THE TE MEANG BEHD “THAT’S SO GAY”

Partially rponse to Stonewall, 1970, queer activists New York Cy anized a march to Central Park wh the theme “Gay Pri. Trans activist Slyvia Rivera particular advoted for the more forceful slogan “Gay power.

However, unlike homosexual, has been wily reappropriated by the LGBTQ muny as a label. Queer lerally means “strange or odd om a nventnal viewpot, ” and by at least by the late 1800s, queer was ployed as a rogatory term for an effemate or gay man.

Queer was seen as a way to refer to gays and lbians whout beg genr-sentialist or g divisns wh the muny.

WOULD BE A MISTAKE TO E THE WORD "GAY" BS OR AMIL WRGS? [DUPLITE]

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. 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. The tth is that society has e a long way recent s toward rcg hatred and discrimatn agast gays.

Usg laws to punish people for g “gay” as an sult is not likely to solve the problem, eher. 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.

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" The ia that I may be gay disturbs me and I don’t want to adm that I am unsure about my sexual orientatn.

Scenar Number Five: I’m not gay, and you e to tell me that other people are spreadg a mor that I am. You are gog to keep on tormentg me, and you are not gog to have rpect eher for me or for gay people general. I may also want to e the opportuny for a “teachg moment, ” so I’ll ask you:] How do you feel about gays?

And you will certaly stop tryg to torment me for beg gay bee your efforts to torment me won’t work. They may not know their own te sexual orientatn yet, and they may not even know the sexual meang of the word “gay. 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?

DEFINITIONS FOR GAYGEɪGAY

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”. : 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. 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.

GAY

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. I know that that was a joke, but is still appropriate to say gay to refer that someone's happy or merry the days? In the se of the word gay, popular age the days would tend to flt to the homosexual terpretatn, but 's not a semantic shift.

So short, y, 's still appropriate to e the word gay the sense of happy, so long as 's prented appropriate ntext. 0 / 1 votehomosexual, homophile, homo, gayadjectivomeone who practic homosexualy; havg a sexual attractn to persons of the same sexcheery, gay, sunnyadjectivebright and pleasant; promotg a feelg of cheer"a cheery hello"; "a gay sunny room"; "a sunny se"gay, jocund, jolly, jovial, merry, mirthfuladjectivefull of or showg high-spired merriment"when hearts were young and gay"; "a poet uld not but be gay, such a jocund pany"- Wordsworth; "the jolly crowd at the rnn"; "jolly old Sat Nick"; "a jovial old gentleman"; "have a merry Christmas"; "peals of merry lghter"; "a mirthful lgh"gayadjectivegiven to social pleasur often cludg dissipatn"led a gay Bohemian life"; "a gay old rogue wh an eye for the ladi"brave, braw, gayadjectivebrightly lored and showy"girls cked out brave new drs"; "brave banners flyg"; "`braw' is a Sttish word"; "a drs a b too gay for her years"; "birds wh gay plumage"gay, ftal, ftive, merryadjectiveofferg fun and gaiety"a ftive (or ftal) ocsn"; "gay and excg night life"; "a merry eveng"gay, queer, homophile(a)adjectivehomosexual or arog homosexual sirWiktnaryRate this fn:0. Etymology: om the and untractable spirs look upon precepts emblem, as they do upon gays and pictur, the fooleri of so many old wiv tal.

GAY JOK

0 / 0 votgayGay is a term monly ed to scribe a person who intifi as havg a romantic and/or sexual orientatn towards dividuals of the same genr. It is typilly ed to refer to homosexual men, although n be clive of both homosexual men and homosexual women. 0 / 0 votGayexced wh merriment; maniftg sportivens or light; spirg light; livery; merryGaybrilliant lors; splendid; fe; richly drsedGayloose; dissipated; lewdGaynounan ornamentFreebaseRate this fn:5.

0 / 1 voteGayGay is a term that primarily refers to a homosexual person or the tra of beg homosexual. The term's e as a reference to homosexualy may date as early as the late 19th century, but s e gradually creased the 20th century.

In morn English, "gay" has e to be ed as an adjective, and as a noun, referrg to the people, pecially to mal, and the practic and cultur associated wh homosexualy. By the end of the 20th century, the word "gay" was remend by major LGBT groups and style guis to scribe people attracted to members of the same sex. In this e, the word do not mean "homosexual", so n be ed, for example, to refer to an animate object or abstract ncept of which one disapprov.