Do we need laws forbiddg the "gay" sult?
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
* 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:.
‘GAY IS NOT OKAY’ LUMNIST NO LONGER GUILTY LG WHICH CHANG SA HATE SPEECH LAWS
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.
THE SOLUTN TO "GAY" INSULTS: FREEDOM OF SPEECH
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.