The Solutn to "Gay" Insults: Freedom of Speech | Psychology Today

Contents:

• THREAD: FLAMBOYANT GAYS VS THE AVERAGE HOMOSEXUAL MALE.
• ALL THE OPENLY GAY MALE CELEBS WHO ARE OUT, PROUD & SMOK’ HOT
• FLAMG GAY GUY TRANSGENR TRANSSEXUAL DRAG QUEEN MEME GENERATOR
• FLAMG GAY
• THE SOLUTN TO "GAY" INSULTS: FREEDOM OF SPEECH
• GAY SEX RUMORS ASI, LDSEY GRAHAM’S LGBTQ RERD IS A FLAMG TRASH DUMPSTER
• GAY HOLLYWOOD: 45 OUT AND PROUD LGBT STARS (PHOTOS)

THREAD: FLAMBOYANT GAYS VS THE AVERAGE HOMOSEXUAL MALE.

I'm a straight male, and lookg om the outsi , I n see at least part of the reason why homophobia still exists. I have absolutely 0 problem wh anyone's sexualy, whether gay, straight, asexual etc.

But there are certa behavural and personaly tras often associated wh gay mal that are slightly off-puttg.

ALL THE OPENLY GAY MALE CELEBS WHO ARE OUT, PROUD & SMOK’ HOT

The overly enthiastic gay man wh a se om ear to ear that is flailg his arms around and speakg a high pched voice. Now my pot is that this stereotypil gay man is what most people believe a gay man to be.

FLAMG GAY GUY TRANSGENR TRANSSEXUAL DRAG QUEEN MEME GENERATOR

As I do not have any experience to speak of wh the gay muny, I n neher nfirm nor ny this stereotype. I'm not sure if this theory is valid or not, but I feel like there is possibly a very small and loud mory of gay men that are g for all of the others. But soon the l blur and the hate for those annoyg flamboyant INDIVIDUALS, be hate for all gay people at large, cludg the non-annoyg on.

I know a straight iend who uld be scribed as flamboyant, but I also know que a few gay iends who are. OT: I pretty much agree wh what you have said regards to the false equivalency between gay and flamboyant the media, one of my pet peev actually. Shows are gettg better at portrayg gay 'liftyl' more realistilly, certaly dog a better job than the 90's.

Flamboyant is often ed for gays only, but I thk 's someone who really flnts their sexualy/emotns and who shows a lot of movg around.

FLAMG GAY

I bet every sgle person on this fom knows a gay man that they don't know about bee they act straight. A type of homosexual that is easily tected by a person wh ltle to morate "gay-dar".

I n fd ltle evince of this on the ter, but sce gay culture is passed down through hearsay and gossip, I’m cludg this.

THE SOLUTN TO "GAY" INSULTS: FREEDOM OF SPEECH

Some archivist or queer historian may rroborate or squash this ia, one I heard om a gay elr and pass on to you — that “queer” was actually the word preferred by the first wave of queens, h om the closet, sweatg word-of-mouth disthequ that migrated through the cy.

So many zgers are rerd om those trials that this seems plsible: Sir John Douglas, the Marqus of Queensbury (serly), who first lled Wil a sodome and lnched the gay playwright’s epic mise, reportedly lled Wil a “snob queer” durg the proceedgs.

A mon slogan you n still fd on T-shirts and queer bars across the untry is “Not gay as happy, but queer as ‘fuck you. “Queer” addrs the fluidy of genr and sexual orientatn and f those who e as people foced on problems largely ignored by the gay rights movement: racism, wage equaly, women’s rights, transphobia, and so on. “Homo” is still a slur to many gay men, but jt as “queer” beme a power term, “homo” has seen a recent surge populary.

GAY SEX RUMORS ASI, LDSEY GRAHAM’S LGBTQ RERD IS A FLAMG TRASH DUMPSTER

The word beme cemented antigay lgo wh the famo CBS Reports episo “The Homosexuals, ” which aired on March 7, 1967 (I would be born on the same day 25 years later). A self-intified gay woman, she rried the bt sign the crowd, one that exemplified slur-reclamatn: “DYKE: We might not go down history, but we’ll do down on your sister! It’s easy to see how “faggot” beme a hate word wh s implitn that gay men should that meang, words like “flamer” and “flamg” formed as rogatory terms for feme men.

That said, some guys wear their twk stat wh gay men will say “twk” was never a slur.

GAY HOLLYWOOD: 45 OUT AND PROUD LGBT STARS (PHOTOS)

“Fairy” — an old-school antigay dig — has been stripped of s power by the Radil Faerie movement and new-era queers.

”There may have been gay people his cy, but the faerie muny is a smaller subgroup wh the larger muny that celebrat diversy, self-exprsn, genr fluidy, spirualism, and sexual openns. ” This is a mon English gay slur — one that, acrdg to some iends London, is the equivalent of “faggot” across the For: I’ll have to ask them if “poof” is makg a rurgence as a power Agast: It’s offensive to our neighbors the U. Werk , are a ln different “queens” old-school gay lexin: drag queens, gym queens, leather queens, size queens (ahem).

” This one is so childish that ’s hardly worth mentng, but acrdg to the ter ’s still a term homophob e.

Sce ’s a clear mentary on gay sex (meant to attack parts of our timacy that untls gay men have securi about), let me jt say that I’m absolutely a fudge packer — or whatever you ll the receptive end of that term.

” Here’s a history lson urty of the History News Network:The ‘nance, ’ or Nancy Boy, was a gay burlque character om the 1930s who brought guffaws and belly lghs as he pranced about the stage, creatg mpy scen and sketch of gay life. In the late 1930s, New York Mayor Frello LaGuardia, fearful of how the lurid burlque shows would make his cy look the upg World’s Fair of 1939, cracked down on the of LaGuardia’s anger was aimed at the Nance, whom crics said created dienc of lty gay men havg sex the dark balni of the burlque emporiums.