Why Is The Term "Gay" Used As An Insult To Masculy?

A DAD’S ADVICE TO NEIGHBORHOOD KIDS: DON’T E GAY AS AN SULT

Impartg life lsons to your own kids is part and parcel of parentg, but what about dog that for other people’s children? Aaron Gouveia wrtled wh that qutn when his young son me to him cryg bee an olr kid kept llg him gay. * is gay an insult *

That’s the qutn I wrtled wh as I nsoled my 7-year-old son who was cryg bee an olr kid the neighborhood kept llg him gay.

“Dad, why is beg gay stupid or bad? That means g “gay” as an sult, tellg someone they “throw like a girl” and llg someone a “retard” is banned our fay. They know our gay iends, they have gay relativ they love, and we discs on a route basis why ments such as those are so hurtful.

So, when my son heard olr kids he looks up to g gay as an sult, a part of him wonred if his idol was right. I also remd him that many people around him might be gay or qutng their sexualy and asked him how he thks they’d feel if everyone ed gay as a pejorative.

IS LLG A HOMOSEXUAL PERSON “GAY” OFFENSIVE?

The Trevor Project, a nonprof focg on suici preventn efforts among lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer and qutng youth, timat more than 1. “Gay is an inty term, not an sult. "Gay", on s face, is not a rogatory term.

It's typilly preferred by those to whom appli over the term "homosexual", the technil nature of which mak this state of beg sound like a munible disease or mental illns (which, as recently as the DSM-II, seventh edn, was, tegorized as a pathologil phobia of the oppose sex). Many advocy groups, such as GLAAD (Gay/Lbian Associatn Agast Defamatn) and terms they promote for e the media (such as LGBT) rporate this term, though this isn't to say the terms will always be acceptable for this reason; the group name often persists long after the words behd them have fallen om favor, to avoid the nfn of a rebrandg of the group. "Queer", an old slang term for gay men, and "fag"/"faggot", origally AE slang for a wimp or unmanly person, but which me to be associated wh the stereotypil "swishy" gay man, have bee si terms; still appropriate when ed by a ntral party or a "straight" person, but acceptable ntext between gay men.