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Contents:
- "THAT'S SO GAY" IS JT SO WRONG
- HOW TO KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY
- HOW TO TELL IF YOUR GUY FRIEND IS GAY
- WHAT DO YOU SAY TO “THAT’S SO GAY” AND OTHER ANTI-LGBTQ COMMENTS?
- AM I GAY?
- WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?
- THAT'S SO GAY
- WHAT’S SO BAD ABOUT “THAT’S SO GAY”?
"THAT'S SO GAY" IS JT SO WRONG
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… * is so gay *
Spend any time around teens, and you’re likely to hear the mon exprsn, “That’s so gay" — even among gay kids. If you ask them about , as some rearchers have, they often will sist that is not tend as homophobic language, jt a harmls phrase to exprs tratn or somethg siar.
HOW TO KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY
There are lots of reasons why you might want to know if your iend is gay. There are some important thgs that you have to unrstand about this suatn before gog forward, however. Someone's sexualy is highly plex and highly... * is so gay *
When most people hear the term LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual or transsexual), for stance, they equate to havg adult sex. Another client’s mother once ught him lookg at gay porn, and said, horrified, “You’re not gay, are you?
HOW TO TELL IF YOUR GUY FRIEND IS GAY
Are you qutng your sexualy? Fd out if you’re gay, straight, bisexual, or asexual. Learn what the terms mean and if they apply to you. * is so gay *
” Later when the parents learned their children were gay, they apologized to them for sayg the thgs, but the damage was already done.
Hearg kids sayg, “that’s so gay” every day mak the people and everythg else around them qutnable: Are thgs safe or dangero? What, then, n be done about makg kids (and the rt of ) more aware of the harm g such phras as “That’s so gay? But parents who are enough aware of language’s substrata n help by helpg their kids’ schools unrstand the value of practicg the same kd of zero tolerance for homophobic language that they do for racist or anti-Semic or bullyg language.
The bt thg I have seen is the mpaign “ThkB4YouSpeak” by GLSEN (Gay, Lbian School Edutor Network).
WHAT DO YOU SAY TO “THAT’S SO GAY” AND OTHER ANTI-LGBTQ COMMENTS?
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Anti-LGBT remarks such as “that’s so gay” are often untentnal and a mon part of teens’ vernacular.
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AM I GAY?
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WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?
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THAT'S SO GAY
All of the men my rearch sisted that they did not tend to be homophobic when they ed the phrase.
WHAT’S SO BAD ABOUT “THAT’S 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.