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Longtime LGBTQ ally Hilary Duff once aga steps up and prov why she is so beloved by fans. The Come Clean sger recreated her inic 2008 That's So Gay PSA…

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REMEMBER WHEN HILARY DUFF END HOMOPHOBIA BY TELLG PEOPLE TO STOP SAYG ‘THAT’S SO GAY’?

Hilary Duff released an ad to end homophobia 2008 where she nmned e of the term 'That's so gay'. In Pri month, let's revis . * hilary duff that's so gay commercial *

Sce the noughti queens are at the foreont of everyone’s mds aga (Paris Hilton, Ldsay Lohan, Nile Richie etc), let me remd you of which gal is not only the least problematic, but has also been a drivg force the fight agast homophobia sce way back when: Hilary Duff.

WATCH HILARY DUFF RE-CREATE HER INIC ‘THAT’S SO GAY’ ANTI-BULLYG PSA: ‘A CULTURE-DEFG MOMENT’

Hilary Duff rema her inic 2008 anti-gay bullyg mercial a new TikTok along wh Pentatonix sger Stt Hoyg and his fiancé, Mark Man. See the vio. * hilary duff that's so gay commercial *

Back the noughti, when people thought was okay to say “that’s so gay” a negative way, Hilary Duff took a stand by takg part the Thk Before You Speak mpaign. The mpaign was created by Arnold Worldwi and the Gay, Lbian and Straight Edutn Network (GLSEN) as an effort to te people on the fact that the term is offensive to LGBTQIA+ people. In the inic 2008 ad, Hilary Duff approach two women a clothg store after hearg one of them say that an outf is “so gay.

WATCH HILARY DUFF RECREATE 2008 ANTI-BULLYG COMMERCIAL CONMNG PHRASE "THAT'S SO GAY"

"That’s so gay," is so yterday. * hilary duff that's so gay commercial *

The mpaign was released at a time where “that’s so gay” was beg tossed around equently and as someone who was stgglg wh their sexual inty at the time, I n tell you that hearg beg spouted by people (cludg iends) was credibly hurtful. It ma my gay ltle heart sg when I saw that Hilary Duff was actively takg a stand and puttg her name and face to a e that aims to elimate the homophobic term. You’d thk at this pot people are ted enough to know that the term is not okay to be ed, but apparently not bee over the weekend, MAFS star Jsika Power uttered “so gay” an Instagram Story.

Watch Hilary Duff Re-Create Her Inic ‘That’s So Gay’ Anti-Bullyg PSA: ‘A Culture-Defg MOMENT’. Thk homophobia’s ol? On Thursday, Hilary Duff took to social media to re-create her inic anti-bullyg PSA that tght an entire generatn of lennials to stop sayg: “That’s so gay.

” Hoyg lip-synced, to which Man thoughtlsly replied, “So gay.

HILARY DUFF RECREAT HER 2008 ‘THAT’S SO GAY’ PSA

The Ad Council and GLSEN have teamed up for a mpaign, ThkB4YouSpeak, tend to te young people about homophobic language and s nsequenc. To that end, they've enlisted Wanda Syk and Hillary Duff to appear two PSAs that draw attentn to the phrase "that's so gay" and s terpretatns. The mpaign will utilize prt, ter, and rad, and televisn spots. Watch Syk and Duff hand to some teens, AFTER THE JUMP... * hilary duff that's so gay commercial *

” Overhearg the pair, Duff terpted to kdly end homophobia s tracks. “Say that somethg’s gay when you mean ’s bad. The viral post end wh Duff’s fal voice-over, remdg viewers, “When you say, ‘That’s so gay, ’ do you realize what you say?

Hilary Duff rema her inic 2008 anti-gay bullyg mercial a new TikTok along wh Pentatonix sger Stt Hoyg and his fiancé, Mark Man. Hilary Duff let the ra fall down by makg a lightful llback to her inic anti-gay bullg mercial om 2008 a new TikTok.

WHEN HILARY DUFF’S ‘THAT’S SO GAY’ PSA END HOMOPHOBIATHE DAILY BEAST’S OBSESSEDEVERYTHG WE N’T STOP LOVG, HATG, AND THKG ABOUT THIS WEEK POP CULTURE.KEV FALLONSENR EDOR, OBSSEDUPDATED JUN. 05, 2021 3:55AM EDT / PUBLISHED JUN. 04, 2021 11:39PM EDT YOUTUBETHIS IS A PREVIEW OF OUR POP CULTURE NEWSLETTER THE DAILY BEAST’S OBSSED, WRTEN BY SENR ENTERTAMENT REPORTER KEV FALLON. TO RECEIVE THE FULL NEWSLETTER YOUR BOX EACH WEEK, SIGN UP FOR HERE. THIS WEEK: HOPEFULLY THE LAST PANMIC NTENT WE’LL EVER REVIEW.REMEMBER WHEN HILARY DUFF SOLVED HOMOPHOBIA?YOU NEED TO BE WATCHG HACKS.BEHOLD THE FRENCH UNTHORIZED CéLE DN BPIC. (REALLY.)JSI CHASTA AS TAMMY FAYE BAKER IS GAY RIGHTS. HAPPY PRI TO HILARY DUFF! IT’S THE WONRFULLY AWFUL TIME OF THE YEAR, WHEN EVERYTHG OM MY TOOTHPASTE TO MY TOILET PAPER TO MY NIGHTLY BURRO—YOU TRY LIVG ABOVE A CHIPOTLE—ARE FTOONED WH RABOW PACKAGG AND MAXIMS ABOUT PRI, EQUALY, LOVE, AND ACCEPTANCE. THANK YOU, CHARM.TWTER ACUNTS FOR SNACK CRACKERS ARE SENTIENTLY PROCLAIMG THEIR ACTIVISM SUPPORT OF THE LGBT+ MUNY, AND MY BANK HAS SENT SEVERAL MASS EMAILS ABOUT HOW MUCH I MATTER, WHICH IS CERTALY A DIFFERENT TUNE THAN THEY WERE SGG LAST MONTH WHEN I MISSED A CRED RD PAYMENT.STREAMG SERVIC AND NTENT PLATFORMS HAVE CURATED FILM AND TV SERI SPOTLIGHTG LGBT NTENT, AS IF I DON’T KNOW WHERE TO FD AN EPISO OF GOLN GIRLS AT ALL TIM, A PCH. IT IS THE ONE MONTH THAT I GET TO CHECK OUT AT DUANE REA AND SEE A BONA FI, REAL-LIFE GAY PERSON ON A MAGAZE VER. REPRENTATN! LISTEN, I WOULD RATHER WEIGH ON THE ISRAELI-PALTIAN NFLICT THAN GET EMBROILED THE ANNUAL, SUFFERABLE DISURSE ABOUT THE CYNIL MERCIALIZATN OF PRI MONTH, THE BRIEF TOKENIZATN OF VISIBILY, AND WHO, WHAT, AND HOW MUCH LEATHER BONDAGE BELONGS AT MARCH AND PARAS. LET ME DRK MY ROADIE OF VODKA SODA, DANCE TO A PHONY OF LADY GAGA SONGS BOOMG OM VAR SPEAKERS, AND GET SUNBURNED WHILE SCROLLG THROUGH THIRST TRAPS PEACE, AS THE REVOLUTNISTS TEND.THAT IS ALL TO SAY THERE IS EXACTLY ONE PIECE OF SPIRG LGBT NTENT THAT MATTERS TO ME, AND, LIKE MANY QUEER LENNIALS, I REVIS FONDLY ONCE A YEAR. LET NEVER FET WHEN HILARY DUFF TOLD ’S NOT OL TO LL THGS “GAY” AS AN SULT.BACK 2008, THE MUNY’S ONE TE ALLY, LIZZIE MAGUIRE, FILMED A PSA FOR THE GAY, LBIAN, AND STRAIGHT EDUTN NETWORK’S (GLSEN) MPAIGN TO ERADITE THE PHRASE “THAT’S SO GAY” OM SUAL NVERSATN. (WATCH HERE.) THE SPOT FEATUR DUFF CLOTH SHOPPG AND OVERHEARG TWO GIRLS TRYG ON CLOTH. ONE SAYS THE OTHER’S TOP LOOKS “SO GAY.”“YOU KNOW, YOU REALLY SHOULDN’T SAY THAT,” DUFF, THE FIRST LGBT SUPERHERO, NO MATTER WHAT MARVEL SAYS, TERPTS. TO SAY SOMETHG IS GAY WHEN YOU MEAN ’S BAD “IS SULTG,” SHE SCHOOLS THEM. “WHAT IF EVERY TIME SOMETHG WAS BAD, EVERYBODY SAID, ‘THAT’S SO ‘GIRL WEARG A SKIRT AS A TOP?’”YOU SEE, NOT ONLY WAS THE GIRL SUALLY PROBLEMATIC, SHE WAS WEARG A SKIRT AS A TOP. ANYWAY, SHE QUICKLY DISTEGRATED TO A PILE OF HUIATED ASH, AND HILARY DUFF FEATED HOMOPHOBIA THEN AND THERE.THE THG IS, I’M ONLY WRG ALL THIS WH A HT OF SARSM. BACK 2008, A PSA LIKE THIS WAS HUGE. AND WHILE THERE HAVE BEEN NOBLE, EMOTNAL, AND CREDIBLY EFFECTIVE MPAIGNS OVER THE YEARS TACKLG THGS LIKE ANTI-GAY VLENCE, THE STARTLG LGBT SUICI RAT, AND TRANS RIGHTS, THE ATTEMPT TO RAISE AWARENS ABOUT AN ISSUE THAT SEEMED SO MUNDANE BUT WAS SO HARMFUL S MASTREAM EXISTENCE WAS PROFOUND.IT TURNS OUT THAT GROWG UP WH “THAT’S SO GAY” AS AN SULT SUCKS. WHO’D HAVE GUSED?THE PHRASE TEGRATED TO ACCEPTED NVERSATN TO THE POT THAT EVEN THE LEAST HOMOPHOBIC AMONG —EVEN THE GAYT AMONG , TO BE HONT—ED WH ABANDON, PLETELY UNAWARE THAT EACH TIME WAS SAID, FORTIFIED AN ENVIRONMENT FOR MORE EXTREME ANTI-LGBT HARASSMENT, BULLYG, AND VLENCE TO PERPETUATE.SO HAPPY PRI TO HILARY DUFF, AND HILARY DUFF ONLY. HACKS, SOMEHOW, KEEPS GETTG BETTER AS A LIFELONG DIGNG WOMEN ENTHIAST, ’S BEEN CREDIBLY GRATIFYG TO WATCH THE “JEAN SMARTAISSANCE” BRG SUCH ATTENTN TO THE REER-LONG BRILLIANCE OF JEAN SMART.I DON’T SUBSCRIBE TO THE NOTN THAT SOMETHG YOU WATCH OR SEE N “TURN YOU GAY,” EXCEPT FOR THE FACT THAT I FIRMLY SPECT WATCHG FOUR WOMEN SKIRT SUS WH SHOULR PADS THAT WOULD PROTECT THEM AGAST THE ATLANTA FALNS’ FENSIVE LE LIVERG FEMIST MONOLOGU BETWEEN TERR RATG GIGS AS AN IMPRSNABLE MIDDLE SCHOOLER DID, FACT, TURN ME GAY.TO NOW SEE THE ACTRS WHO PLAYED THE IMABLE CHARLENE FRAZIER STILLFIELD EARN THE BT REVIEWS OF HER REER FOR THE ONE-TWO PUNCH OF HER SCENE-STEALG WORK ON MARE OF EASTTOWN AND THEN THE MOST VIBRANT SHOWSE SHE’S EVER HAD HACKS? THAT’S PRI. THE HBO MAX SERI ABOUT A JOAN RIVERS-QUE EDIAN THE SUNSET OF HER REER—BUT WHO WILL N TO THE DAMN HORIZON HERSELF AND HEAVE THE SUN BACK TO THE AIR IF THAT’S WHAT TAK TO STAY WORKG—HAS MORPHED OM A FUNNY AND ENJOYABLE SERI BUOYED BY SMART’S ELECTRIFYG PERFORMANCE TO, GENUELY, THE BT EDY CURRENTLY AIRG ON TV.LAST WEEK’S STRANGE AND SURPRISGLY POIGNANT DUO OF EPISOS—-STAR HANNAH EBR AS AVA A THRILLG, ALMOST ELEGIAC WHIRLWD VEGAS ROMANCE, FOLLOWED BY HER DAM-BREAKG BONDG SSN WH SMART’S DEBORAH AT A NVALCENCE SPA—ELEVATED THE SHOW TO A WHOLE NEW LEVEL. THEY JECTED UNEXPECTED HUMANY AND PATHOS TO WHAT HAD BEEN A EDILLY TIC ( A GOOD WAY!) SERI.THE TWO EPISOS THAT WERE RELEASED THIS THURSDAY NTUE THAT NIMBLE THREADG OF EMOTN TO THE SHOW’S DARK EDY. THERE’S NOTHG BETTER THAN BGEG A SHOW AS ’S JT HTG S STRI. YOU WANT TO BE AN ALLY? SUPPORT JEAN SMART FOR PRI. MY HEART WILL GO ON AND ON (FOR ALE DI) THE LP FOR THIS YEAR’S CANN FILM FTIVAL WAS ANNOUNCED THIS WEEK, AND, WOW, WHAT A JAW-DROPPG ASSEMBLAGE OF FILMMAKERS, CREATIVE TALENT, AND HOTLY ANTICIPATED PROJECTS. AND NONE OF THEM MATTER, BEE SCREENG OUT OF PETN IS THE FRENCH FILM ALE, THE VOICE OF LOVE, A BPIC OF CéLE DN THAT HER SONGS AND HER LIFE STORY, BUT NOT HER NAME, AND IS THE ONLY PIECE OF CEMA I N POSSIBLY IMAGE RG ABOUT THE NEXT YEAR, IF NOT . THE TRAILER FOR THIS IS SANE. (WATCH HERE.) I WAS SO NVCED I WAS SUFFERG A STROKE WHILE WATCHG THIS, I STARTED PSYCHOSOMATILLY SMELLG BURNT TOAST. A TE RETURN TO NORMALCY MEANS A RETURN TO MS, AND FOR THAT, I’M SO GRATEFUL TO MY SGG IDOL, WHO IS APPARENTLY NOW NOT CéLE DN, BUT ALE DI. THE OSR FOR BT PRS PROMO PHOTO GO TO... THIS IS A PHOTO OF JSI CHASTA AS TAMMY FAYE BAKER AN UPG BPIC, AND ’S TAKEN ALL THE WILLPOWER I N MTER TO NOT PRT OUT AND WALK THE STREETS OF NEW YORK CY SHOVG PEOPLE’S FAC AND SCREAMG, “HAVE YOU SEEN THIS?!?” ATTENTN MT BE PAID. WHAT TO WATCH THIS WEEK: KENNEDY CENTER HONORS: THE BT TRIBUTE EVENT OF THE YEAR HONORS DEBBIE ALLEN, GARTH BROOKS, AND DICK VAN DYKE. (SUN. ON CBS)LOKI: YOU’D ALL WATCH THIS NEW MARVEL SERI EVEN IF I DIDN’T REMEND , BUT I AM ACTUALLY TRIGUED BY THIS ONE. (WED. ON DISNEY+) WHAT TO SKIP THIS WEEK: VANRPUMP DOGS: EVERY REALY-TV OBSSIVE HAS HIS LIMS. (WED. ON PEACK)THE CONJURG: THE DEVIL MA ME DO IT: AKA THE EXCE VERA FARMIGA AND PATRICK WILSON ED FOR DOG THIS SEND SEQUEL. (FRI. THEATERS AND ON HBO MAX)LISEY’S STORY: TURNS OUT THE ROCKY TRACK RERD OF STEPHEN KG ADAPTATNS STAYS ROCKY EVEN WHEN KG IS ADAPTG HIS WORK HIMSELF. (FRI. ON APPLE TV+) NEWSLETTERSTHE DAILY BEAST’S OBSSEDEVERYTHG WE N’T STOP LOVG, HATG, AND THKG ABOUT THIS WEEK POP CULTURE.SUBSCRIBEBY CLICKG "SUBSCRIBE" YOU AGREE TO HAVE READ THE TERMS OF USE AND PRIVACY POLICY KEV FALLON

Hilary Duff is makg old ntent new aga. The sger and actrs has recreated her anti-gay bullyg PSA om 14 years ago. * hilary duff that's so gay commercial *

22 vio the origal d om the PSA which featur two teenagers tryg on tops a clothg store, and g the word "gay" a rogatory way, Lizzie McGuire steps to te the pair. " Stt lip-syncs at the start of the clip, wh Mark rpondg, "It's so gay.

Yeah, 's totally gay.

THAT’S SO GAY: HILLARY DUFF AND WANDA SYK FIGHT HOMOPHOBIA

"A md is a terrible thg to waste." "Friends don't let iends drive dnk." "Only you n prevent fort fir." Sce the 1940s the Ad Council has been impactg the culture wh slogans like the. Now the venerable nonprof anizatn is out to te teens that antigay slang don't cut anymore -- and to kick-start the effort, 's reced Hilary Duff. * hilary duff that's so gay commercial *

"Sayg that somethg's gay when you mean 's bad, 's sultg.

"She then speaks directly to the viewers, explag, "When you say, ‘That's so gay, ' do you realize what you say? Dpe the mercial—which was ma for the Gay, Lbian, and Straight Edutn Network's (GLSEN) mpaign—beg ma more than a ago, 's still a topic that's close to Hilary's heart. Hilary Duff recreated her 2008 “Thk Before You Speak” PSA — which nmned the e of the phrase “that’s so gay” — a new TikTok vio.

“That’s so gay, ” Man tells Hoyg via voice-over as the a ppella sger tri on a top and asks, “Really? “Yeah, that’s so gay, ” Man reaffirms. “Well, say that somethg’s gay when ’s bad.

HILARY DUFF REMDS US “DON’T SAY GAY” IS “SO YTERDAY!”

* hilary duff that's so gay commercial *

Duff also noted that she has “plenty of gay iends” whom she “lov to ath” and would “never want to do or say anythg to hurt their feelgs. Duff has said she feels like she ow the gay muny “everythg.

More recently, the mother of three spoke to the Gay Tim about what the LGBTQIA+ muny has meant to her and her reer. “I really feel like the whole entire gay muny supported me om the very, very begng when nobody would take me serly as a sger, ” she said January. If your high school experience was anythg like me (and I don’t mean a regrettable Tripp pants phase), the phrase, "That’s so gay, " was ubiquo classrooms and hallways.

Backpacks were gay. Sho were gay. People who weren’t even remotely gay were sooooo gay.

HILARY DUFF RECREAT 2008 ANTI-BULLYG PSA NMNG PHRASE ‘THAT’S SO GAY’

Everythg high school was so gay, and not the fun way that everythg is actually so gay when you’re an out adult. Gay was ed as a synonym for stupid, gross, ugly, too feme, or whatever else your peers emed y, was hurtful. Y, ’s bad for the word gay to be associated wh all thgs negative.

" Her iend rponds, "It’s so gay. "Yeah, ’s totally gay.

""Say that somethg’s gay when you mean ’s bad, " Duff says. " She star down the girl who lled her iend’s shirt gay, her gr ozen, her ey slightly girl is speechls.

HILARY DUFF RE-CREATED HER INIC "THAT'S SO GAY" COMMERCIAL, AND I'M SORRY, BUT THAT'S FIGHTG FOR GAY RIGHTS

Remember when Hilary Duff solved homophobia? )Jsi Chasta as Tammy Faye Baker is gay Pri to Hilary Duff!

HILARY DUFF RECREAT INIC ‘THAT’S SO GAY’ ANTI-BULLYG PSA: WATCH

It is the one month that I get to check out at Duane Rea and see a bona fi, real-life gay person on a magaze ver. Let never fet when Hilary Duff told ’s not ol to ll thgs “gay” as an 2008, the muny’s one te ally, Lizzie Maguire, filmed a PSA for the Gay, Lbian, and Straight Edutn Network’s (GLSEN) mpaign to eradite the phrase “that’s so gay” om sual nversatn.

One says the other’s top looks “so gay. To say somethg is gay when you mean ’s bad “is sultg, ” she schools them.

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Anyway, she quickly distegrated to a pile of huiated ash, and Hilary Duff feated homophobia then and thg is, I’m only wrg all this wh a ht of sarsm. And while there have been noble, emotnal, and credibly effective mpaigns over the years tacklg thgs like anti-gay vlence, the startlg LGBT suici rat, and trans rights, the attempt to raise awarens about an issue that seemed so mundane but was so harmful s mastream existence was turns out that growg up wh “that’s so gay” as an sult sucks. The phrase tegrated to accepted nversatn to the pot that even the least homophobic among —even the gayt among , to be hont—ed wh abandon, pletely unaware that each time was said, fortified an environment for more extreme anti-LGBT harassment, bullyg, and vlence to Happy Pri to Hilary Duff, and Hilary Duff, Somehow, Keeps Gettg BetterAs a lifelong Digng Women enthiast, ’s been credibly gratifyg to watch the “Jean Smartaissance” brg such attentn to the reer-long brilliance of Jean Smart.

I don’t subscribe to the notn that somethg you watch or see n “turn you gay, ” except for the fact that I firmly spect watchg four women skirt sus wh shoulr pads that would protect them agast the Atlanta Falns’ fensive le liverg femist monologu between terr ratg gigs as an imprsnable middle schooler did, fact, turn me now see the actrs who played the imable Charlene Frazier Stillfield earn the bt reviews of her reer for the one-two punch of her scene-stealg work on Mare of Easttown and then the most vibrant showse she’s ever had Hacks?

The Ad Council and GLSEN have teamed up for a mpaign, ThkB4YouSpeak, tend to te young people about homophobic language and s nsequenc. To that end, they've enlisted Wanda Syk and Hillary Duff to appear two PSAs that draw attentn to the phrase “that's so gay” and s terpretatns. The sger and actrs has recreated her anti-gay bullyg PSA om 14 years ago.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* HILARY DUFF THAT'S SO GAY COMMERCIAL

Hilary Duff Re-Created Her "That's So Gay" Commercial .

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