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"That '70s Show" has been given the reboot treatment at Netflix, and the s has troduced a new character Ozzie who out as gay.

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IS LLG A HOMOSEXUAL PERSON “GAY” OFFENSIVE?

Gay Pri Month 2022 will feature march, paras and a rporate backlash that hurts gay rights and acceptance across the polil spectm. * a gay offensive *

"Gay", on s face, is not a rogatory term. It's typilly preferred by those to whom appli over the term "homosexual", the technil nature of which mak this state of beg sound like a munible disease or mental illns (which, as recently as the DSM-II, seventh edn, was, tegorized as a pathologil phobia of the oppose sex). Many advocy groups, such as GLAAD (Gay/Lbian Associatn Agast Defamatn) and terms they promote for e the media (such as LGBT) rporate this term, though this isn't to say the terms will always be acceptable for this reason; the group name often persists long after the words behd them have fallen om favor, to avoid the nfn of a rebrandg of the group.

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Faggot is an offensive slang term for a gay man. Though origally (and more harmlsly) meant "a bundle of sticks," the word faggot should be ed very refully or avoid pletely. * a gay offensive *

"Queer", an old slang term for gay men, and "fag"/"faggot", origally AE slang for a wimp or unmanly person, but which me to be associated wh the stereotypil "swishy" gay man, have bee si terms; still appropriate when ed by a ntral party or a "straight" person, but acceptable ntext between gay men.

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The difference between what means to be a gay person on the Right and a gay person on the Left is beg far more profound than mere polil disagreement.

Although there is much discsn about the legimacy of gay nservativ, we often don’t articulate why we reject our socially assigned muny, or how difficult that separatn n sometim be. The very ncept of “gay” rights and activism to force a sexual revolutn is the basis of today’s liberalism.

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