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Contents:

• LETTERS TO THE EDOR: I’M GAY AND DON’T WANT TO PATRONIZE BIGOTS. THANKS, SUPREME COURT
• JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY
• GAYLETTER SHOP
• SUFFOLK COUNTY CLEAN WATER PLAN, FIVG LLEGE LOANS, AND SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS LG
• COLORADO'S GAY GOVERNOR WR TAYLOR SWIFT AN EPIC OPEN LETTER

LETTERS TO THE EDOR: I’M GAY AND DON’T WANT TO PATRONIZE BIGOTS. THANKS, SUPREME COURT

"Rpondg to Obama’s open letter, nservativ, cludg The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh, roasted the former print, potg out that “the only books that anyone on the right is challengg are pornographic books about gay sex. Barack Obama has fally e out as gay. At least that mt be what he's sayg, bee he says that the books that are beg challenged schools are the on that shaped his the only books that anyone on the right is challengg are pornographic books about gay… — The Matt Walsh Show (@MattWalshShow) July 18, 2023Thank you @BarackObama for makg clear that you support sexually explic books for kids.

(Kent Nishimura / Los Angel Tim) To the edor: I wonr if the LGBTQ+ muny realiz that the Supreme Court lg favor of a webse signer who didn’t want to create weddg s for gay upl n work our favor as well.

JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY

(“How the ripple effect of the Supreme Court’s 303 Creative cisn uld swamp civil rights, ” Opn, July 12)As a gay man, I am always ncerned if the bs where I spend my money are supportive of my muny.

GAYLETTER SHOP

Consirg a recent survey by the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn (GLAAD) found that 12 percent of the populatn intifi as LGBTQIA+, 's more ccial than ever to unrstand the termology around this growg muny. Until somewhat recently, variatns of the term "gay muny" were ed to enpass the entirety of the group that we now refer to as LGBTQIA+. Magaze, the first acronym to take shape the 1990s was "GLBT, " ed to scribe those who intified as eher gay, lbian, bisexual, or transgenr.

" This notatn clus space for those intifyg as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer (and some s, "qutng"), tersex, asexual (and sometim "ally"), and the "+" is for a plethora of other orientatns and inti.

Before then, the term "gay" was ed to refer to both men and women, although was more closely associated wh men.

SUFFOLK COUNTY CLEAN WATER PLAN, FIVG LLEGE LOANS, AND SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS LG

G: Gay.

Before the latter half of the 19th century, the word "gay" simply referred to someone who was "reee, " "cheerful, " or "bright and showy, " acrdg to The Oxford Dictnary of Difficult Words. Sce then, the word "gay" has fully replaced the term "homosexual, " which many found to be too clil and was riddled wh stigma.

COLORADO'S GAY GOVERNOR WR TAYLOR SWIFT AN EPIC OPEN LETTER

Acrdg to the Universy of Illois, "gay" is still ed to scribe a number of thgs, cludg the LGBTQIA+ muny as a whole, a sgle dividual who do not intify as straight, and men who are attracted to other men a "romantic, erotic and/or emotnal sense. (And, while this should go whout sayg, the ia that intifyg as bisexual is a "way statn" om straight to gay is an accurate and hurtful stereotype.