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Contents:

• WHAT DO ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ ACTUALLY SAY?
• GAY VAGUE
• FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW MAY SOUND VAGUE – BUT S PURPOSE IS CLEAR
• OPPONENTS CALL IT THE ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL. HERE’S WHAT IT SAYS.
• WHAT THE BILL DUBBED ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BY CRICS ACTUALLY SAYS
• WHAT DO IT MEAN TO BE A GAY MAN?
• VERY GAY
• HERE'S WHAT FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL WOULD DO AND WHAT WOULDN'T DO
• WHAT DO "GAY" MEAN?

WHAT DO ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ ACTUALLY SAY?

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Ron DeSantis of Florida is expected to sign Hoe Bill 1557, a proposed law that supporters ll the “Parental Rights Edutn” bill and opponents refer to as the “Don’t Say Gay” lleague Dana Goldste has done a close readg of the bill self, which is about much more than gay rights. Sentence has earned the bill the “Don’t Say Gay” nickname:L 97-101: Classroom stctn by school personnel or third parti on sexual orientatn or genr inty may not occur krgarten through gra 3 or a manner that is not age appropriate or velopmentally appropriate for stunts acrdance wh state impact is clear enough: Instctn on genr and sexualy would be nstraed all gras.

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FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW MAY SOUND VAGUE – BUT S PURPOSE IS CLEAR

Sign up for the Week Patriarchy, a newsletter​ on femism and sexism sent every SaturdayFlorida’s ‘don’t say gay’ law officially go to effectRabows are no longer wele the Sunshe state. On Friday, Florida’s Parental Rights Edutn measure, more monly known as the “don’t say gay” law, officially took effect.

Like Texas’s abortn bounty law, the don’t say gay bill giv parents the power to levy lawsus agast teachers or schools they believe ntravene the liberately broad law. So there you go: the party that profs to love ee speech and small ernment has phed through a law that means a rabow sticker uld end a teacher’s you n’t say gay Florida schools any more, teachers n pray as much they like.

And that state of affairs is gog to spread beyond Florida very quickly; expect a lot more don’t say gay Bills to start poppg up around the US. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTOpponents Call It the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Bill.

OPPONENTS CALL IT THE ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL. HERE’S WHAT IT SAYS.

Ron DeSantis of Florida is expected to sign Hoe Bill 1557, which supporters ll the “Parental Rights Edutn” bill, but that opponents refer to as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. ” Meanwhile, many nservativ have argued that the bill is limed spe and has been misterpreted by s of that has obscured the text of the bill self, which is plex — if at tim vague — and is about much more than gay rights.

Instctn on genr and sexualy would be nstraed all 97-101: Classroom stctn by school personnel or third parti on sexual orientatn or genr inty may not occur krgarten through gra 3 or a manner that is not age appropriate or velopmentally appropriate for stunts acrdance wh state is the sentence that has earned the bill the “Don’t Say Gay” language is vague and subject to terpretatn. No “classroom discsn” is a broad phrase, and uld mean that teachers wh a stunt wh gay parents should not talk about those fai wh the entire class.

” More about Dana GoldsteA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 13 of the New York edn wh the headle: Crics Call It the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Bill. The June JC Penney talog ed a stir by featurg a pair of gay dads playg wh their kids a Fathers Day ad. But JC Penney isn’t alone seeg the gay dience as ripe for bs: Marrtt Internatnal, Allstate Insurance and Amerin Airl last week announced new marketg mpaigns aimed at the gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr (GLBT) dience.

WHAT THE BILL DUBBED ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BY CRICS ACTUALLY SAYS

Marrtt is targetg gay travelers, iends and fai wh a web-based mpaign, “Be You, Wh Us. And Amerin Airl recently troduced b shelter ads New York targeted to gay passengers, reportedly the first time a Fortune 500 pany has ed outdoor advertisg to addrs the gay dience.

But that’s a mere actn of the gay-supportive dience, a growg group which, surveys show, now mak up more than half the untry. Marrtt executiv “sed at the timg” of Print Obama’s statement on gay marriage, she said, but the mpaign has been velopment over the past 18 months. Beyond “gay vague”.

The gay msage is beamg through more clearly the days. Marketers have long ed ambiguy as a way to tap the gay dience whout alienatg others.

WHAT DO IT MEAN TO BE A GAY MAN?

The term advertisg circl is “gay vague”: ads mastream media wh subtle gay ntent that heterosexuals tend not to register and that steer clear of any backlash. Nowadays, advertisers and marketers are movg beyond “gay vague” to specifilly gay imagery, even as they aim at the wir gay-supportive dience. “Gay vague on one hand is nice; when we first saw we were really exced about .

Acrdg to Bob Weck, who has specialized addrsg the GLBT market for s, “Gay vague is yterday. C., handl GLBT munitns for Marrtt, said, “gay advertisg th far has been promotg gay imagery gay media.

VERY GAY

” In makg the leap to mastream media, “gay vague was the way to mimize risk, prevent panic the streets. Now gay advertisg is g out of the closet every possible way. The recent ntroversial JC Penney talog ad illtrat ways marketers seek a wir dience among the growg “gay iendly” or gay-supportive crowd.

There are many more gay-iendly nsumers than there are actual gays and lbians and, the bs of makg imprsns, more is better.

HERE'S WHAT FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL WOULD DO AND WHAT WOULDN'T DO

The Penney ad picts two gay men, a uple real life, celebratg Father’s Day wh their two kids. “JC Penney got such overwhelmg support (of the choice of Ellen DeGener as pchwoman), now they’ve taken to the next level, ” said Todd Evans of Rivenll Media, a gay media placement firm New York.

Whatever the number, Evans said, is exponentially larger when “the gay-iendly market, the parents-of-, the iends-of-, ” are clud. “I ll the PFLAG effect, ” Weck said, referrg to the advocy group Parents, Fai and Friends of Lbians and Gays. “When you advertise to gay people you reach their brothers, sisters, s…”.

WHAT DO "GAY" MEAN?

An example of “gay vague” marketg: an ad for Progrsive Insurance featured two men talkg to the faiar clerk, Flo, about surance. To some viewers, they were a gay uple buyg surance, to others, they were buddi or brothers.

Other “gay vague” TV ads you may have noticed — or not noticed: a spot for Orbz Travel, a golfer wears a shirt wh the logo of the Human Rights Campaign, a GLBT advocy group. Major pani like Absolut have advertised gay-specific venu like the Advote magaze or Logo ble work for years.

But puttg specifilly gay ntent ads to mastream dienc is a different procs. Gay marketg, like gay-everythg, has seeped to the mastream.