The Sunday Sun was ''disparagg'' of homosexuals publishg a lumn by Jon Qwelane headled ''Call me nam, but gay is NOT okay''.
Contents:
- JON QWELANE’S ‘CALL ME NAM, BUT GAY IS NOT OKAY’ ARTICLE WAS HURTFUL, URT HEARS
- “LL ME NAM, BUT GAY IS NOT OKAY”
- ‘GAY IS NOT OKAY’ LUMNIST NO LONGER GUILTY LG WHICH CHANG SA HATE SPEECH LAWS
- THE SOLUTN TO "GAY" INSULTS: FREEDOM OF SPEECH
JON QWELANE’S ‘CALL ME NAM, BUT GAY IS NOT OKAY’ ARTICLE WAS HURTFUL, URT HEARS
Do we need laws forbiddg the "gay" sult? * call me names but gay is not okay *
The SCA Bloemfonte is hearg Qwelane’s appeal agast the South Gteng High Court lg which found him guilty of hate speech 2017 followg a lumn he had wrten a Sunday newspaper 2008 agast gay people. The High Court judge led that he was guilty of hate speech and was cg propaganda hate agast homosexuals and the transgenr muny.
Legal reprentative for Qwelane, Advote Mark Oppenheimer has submted that the article was no way promotg vlence agast the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex (LGBTI) muny. The lumn, tled “Call me nam, but gay is not okay” was published his pacy as a journalist.
“LL ME NAM, BUT GAY IS NOT OKAY”
In this lumn, Qwelane exprsed his opn about homosexuals and he highly praised former Zimbabwe Print Robert Mugabe’s unapologetic stance agast gays and lbians. "You're So Gay. " Homophobic Name Callg as Bullyg Behavr.
E., lbian, gay, and bisexual; LGB) are at a particularly high risk for peer victimizatn and bullyg experienc.
Evans and Chapman (2014) (PDF, 170KB), a recent article entled, "Bullied Youth: The Impact of Bullyg Through Lbian, Gay, and Bisexual Name Callg" published the Amerin Journal of Orthopsychiatry, ed latent class analysis (LCA) to addrs two qutns:. Fdgs suggt a relatnship between beg lled gay, lbian, and queer and the most extensive experienc of bullyg cludg physil, cyber, and relatnal victimizatn. In this se, the actual or perceived sexual orientatn of the victim do not affect the bullyg; homophobic name llg is one technique the bulli' arsenal of bullyg tactics.
‘GAY IS NOT OKAY’ LUMNIST NO LONGER GUILTY LG WHICH CHANG SA HATE SPEECH LAWS
A send possibily is that the All Victims group openly intifi as LGB or is perceived by others to be LGB, and therefore, the youth are bullied by beg lled gay, lbian, or queer due to their actual or perceived sexual orientatn.
Rearchers and practners ncerned wh bullyg mt e their posns to unrstand the role of homophobia bullyg behavr and victimizatn and to tervene on behalf LGB youth. Bullied Youth: The Impact of Bullyg Through Lbian, Gay, Bisexual Name Callg.
The Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) has overturned a lg fdg veteran journalist, former rad personaly and one-time ambassador to Uganda Jon Qwelane guilty of hate speech for a 2008 lumn tled Call me nam, but gay is not okay. She said the Qwelane article was irrponsible and fuelled the existg ill-treatment agast homosexual people, pecially the townships.
THE SOLUTN TO "GAY" INSULTS: FREEDOM OF SPEECH
There was a recent high profile story the news about an 11-year-old boy who mted suici, apparently bee he uld no longer tolerate beg lled “gay. The most mon sult among kids today is “gay.
" Kids get mad when they are lled gay and they sometim get to fights.