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Armed wh a mera and an overdraft, I ma a documentary about what young people mean by ‘gayns’ and why olr people fd so upsettg

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WHY "GAY" ISN'T A BAD WORD FOR CHILDREN

Why "Gay" Isn't a Bad Word for Children * gay is a bad word *

There is a nversatn that needs to be started about the word “gay, ” and why you don’t need to ver the kiddi’ ears once you start a child, I grew up thkg that “gay” was a bad word. When I was six, I was nvced that my Male book was sudnly appropriate bee ntaed the word “gay” you, I had no ia what the word gay meant.

So image my surprise when I showed my book to my father and he reassured me that “gay” actually means “happy” is a funny story, nsirg that today I intify myself as a lbian. I, like so many others, grew up beg ndned to thk that homosexualy — or any sexualy bis straight — was a Horrible Sndalo Thg.

Most importantly, no one sat children down to expla what “gay” or “homosexualy” is.

"THAT'S SO GAY" IS JT SO WRONG

* gay is a bad word *

Consequently, kids nclud om their environment that homosexualy was perverse, and that the word self n be ed as an you or people you know have the impulse to sudnly lower your voic around kids when you start discsg homosexualy? If children heard the discsns, or were exposed to any fashn, they would bee “affected, ” as if homosexualy were a disease you ught by simply hearg about or seeg (which is obvly not the se nsirg LGBT folk still exist this heternormative world) thg is, you don’t have to make the nversatn sexual to start a discsn wh your child about acceptance and love. And yet growg up, there was virtually no gay reprentatn for children of my generatn to view and intify wh.

Ruby (left) and Sapphire (right) om the h rtoon Steven Universe by Rebec Sugar more recently, Beth David and Esteban Bravo (who both intify as homosexual) om the Rglg College of Art + Dign have created the animated short “In a Heartbeat, ” which has bee a great h among dienc. Society lov to hypersexualize any display of homosexualy, claimg that LGBT people are bbg their fac. Are we gay people?

THE 'GAY' WORD: WHAT DO MEAN WHEN YOUNG PEOPLE E NEGATIVELY?

I n fd ltle evince of this on the ter, but sce gay culture is passed down through hearsay and gossip, I’m cludg this. Some archivist or queer historian may rroborate or squash this ia, one I heard om a gay elr and pass on to you — that “queer” was actually the word preferred by the first wave of queens, h om the closet, sweatg word-of-mouth disthequ that migrated through the cy. Acrdg to the ter, “queer” first beme an antigay slur durg the trials of Osr Wil.

So many zgers are rerd om those trials that this seems plsible: Sir John Douglas, the Marqus of Queensbury (serly), who first lled Wil a sodome and lnched the gay playwright’s epic mise, reportedly lled Wil a “snob queer” durg the proceedgs.

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A mon slogan you n still fd on T-shirts and queer bars across the untry is “Not gay as happy, but queer as ‘fuck you. “Queer” addrs the fluidy of genr and sexual orientatn and f those who e as people foced on problems largely ignored by the gay rights movement: racism, wage equaly, women’s rights, transphobia, and so on. People wh inti outsi “gay, straight, or bi” feel reprented by “queer.

WHAT WORDS CAN I SAY TO DECLARE THAT I’M GAY?

Homo.

“Homo” is still a slur to many gay men, but jt as “queer” beme a power term, “homo” has seen a recent surge populary. I love “homo” bee sounds clil and scientific. A s love to ll homosexuals.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* GAY IS A BAD WORD

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Sce Substack tends to bury long Comments—and many rears don’t see them—I wanted to reprt here full. </em></p><p>You beat me to the punch on the travty at the Tavistock - kudos! One wonrs whether, when and how the straight, cisgenred trans "alli" the lol media will ver the story. Call me a cynic, but the le will likely warn of yet another threat to "trans youth," this time om the Tori on the other si of the pond.</p><p>When Creatnism was on the slouch, did the Oregon legislature ever pass a bill requirg that all school urse materials alg wh the hard and social scienc be evince based and scientifilly supported? That would be one way to eradite genr-inty doctratn om Oregon's classrooms.</p><p>Time and space don't allow for a full say on the subject, but unlike racial wokens, genr iology and queer theory are and have been unr asslt the US by the forc of reason for que some time. Opponents clu gay men like me as well as lbians who are veterans or thoughtful heirs of the 20th century battle for dividual civil rights.</p><p>We have had wh the offsprg of the irratnal popularized postmornism of the 21st century who have latched onto our attails and won't let go. What L, G and B have mon is they are sexual orientatns that have had, as the Old Ttament shows, a documented prence one form or another humankd for lennia before the Queen of Queer Judh Butler was even a gleam their penis-haver's eye. The other elements of the so-lled alphabet soup are about as real as the "muni" that people such as Candice Avalos and Carmen Rub purport to reprent, which is not at all, my opn.</p><p>Take "queer," for example. I wish I were naive enough to object to the term bee of s legacy as an sult agast gay people. Ignorance would ed be bliss. What "queer" is not is the latt, hippt synonym for "gay." It did not replace "gay" the way "Black" supplanted "Ain-Amerin." Sadly, too many straight people who nsir themselv "alli" make that mistake and throw the word "queer" around wh abandon to show they're wh .</p><p>The reason "Q" is as out of place wh "LBG" as a piranha among tropil fish is that "Queer" is not an nate sexual orientatn at all. "Queer" is a posture, a set of learned leftist attus and beliefs most monly held by the young, urban and llege ted who strive to give off an air of radil sexual edgs to plement other affectatns of the same polil bent. Some queers are posrs who were the Goths of yteryear. Others, however, are te believers who have embraced Queer Theory and seek to advance s nefar goal of breakg down not only sexual bari but any and all norms and expectatns pertag to genr and sex. Doctraire queers are of necsy fervent proponents of all thgs trans. They have tablished beachheads the language (boy howdy!) and our stutns.</p><p>In closg, there is one sense which "queer" is a replacement for "gay." It's that "Queer" is hegemonic s qut to extguish "lbian," "gay," and "bisexual" as pennt stat of beg ( would be unthkable to ll them inti). At a time when one of the bedrock prcipl of progrsive woke iology is the regnn of each and every possible mory, queers won't untenance the possibily that any human uld mata a stable and long-term attactn to members of their own sex. That's an impossibily unr the laws of Queer Theory.</p><p>For proof one need look no further than the se of Portland State Universy's Queer Rource Center, where the term "gay" is shockgly nspicuo by s absence. (I am enrolled at PSU as a postbac and have picked this bone a time or two wh the Center.) Unlike s unterparts at other Wt Coast universi, the Queer Rource Center (QRC) do not acknowledge the existence of gay people. To put other terms, the word "gay" appears on the QRC's ce, my search failed to unver . I would be relieved to know if I was mistaken.</p><p>Mori of the sexual and genr variety e only two flavors at the QRC and, by extensn, the officialdom at Portland State: queer and trans:</p><p>"Our Missn: The Queer Rource Center supports queer and trans stunts at Portland State Universy to achieve their tnal goals through advocy, muny, and celebratn. The Queer Rource Center prriz a racial jtice amework to improve mp climate through tn, policy change, and mp-wi anizg."</p><p>"Our Visn: The Queer Rource Center striv to provi stunts wh the support they need to persist to graduatn through creasg equy and accs for queer and trans stunts at Portland State Universy."</p><p><a href=" rel></a></p><p>Not only do I not want a future which radil trans activists succeed g parents and health re profsnals to turn sissy ltle boys to ltle girls, I don't want a future which gay Ameri is occupied terrory of the Queer hegemony.</p></div></div><div class="visibily-check"></div><div class="post-footer"><div class="pencraft ontend-pencraft-Box-module__flexGrow--mx4xz ontend-pencraft-Box-module__ret--VfQY8 ontend-pencraft-Box-module__display-flex--ZqeZt ontend-pencraft-Box-module__flex-jtify-space-between--NvIcg ontend-pencraft-Box-module__flex-align-center--rSd6h ontend-pencraft-Box-module__flex-gap-16--TpblU ontend-pencraft-Box-module__paddg-y-16--ohCEm 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Rogers</div></a></div></div></span><a href=" rel="nofollow" native class="ment-timtamp">Aug 8, 2022</a><span class="highlight"><svg role="img" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="#000000" stroke-width="1.8" stroke="#000" xmlns="><g><tle></tle><path d="M20.4134 4.58753C19.9121 4.08434 19.3164 3.68508 18.6606 3.41266C18.0047 3.14023 17.3015 3 16.5914 3C15.8812 3 15.178 3.14023 14.5222 3.41266C13.8663 3.68508 13.2707 4.08434 12.7694 4.58753L12 5.36717L11.2306 4.58753C10.7293 4.08434 10.1337 3.68508 9.47781 3.41266C8.82195 3.14023 8.11878 3 7.40863 3C6.69847 3 5.9953 3.14023 5.33944 3.41266C4.68358 3.68508 4.08793 4.08434 3.58665 4.58753C1.46832 6.70656 1.33842 10.2849 4.00631 13.0037L12 21L19.9937 13.0037C22.6616 10.2849 22.5317 6.70656 20.4134 4.58753Z"></path></g></svg><span class="highlight-text">Liked by Richard Cheverton</span></span></div><div class="ment-body"><p><span>This is so tertg. I asked my dghter and her iend last year (then age 14) "what is the difference between gay and queer?" (I was puzzlg over ). They asserted the are different, very different, but uldn't que articulate what queer was. Now I know! My llege age dghter -- liberal, at a liberal arts llege, whe- tells me "whe kids don't feel special, different, whe/hetero is borg, so they add all the qualifiers to their profil." It will be fun to see if this is a trend that fas.</span></p><div role="button" class="show-all-toggle"><div class="show-all-toggle-label">Expand full ment</div></div></div><div class="pencraft ontend-pencraft-Box-module__ret--VfQY8 ontend-pencraft-Box-module__display-flex--ZqeZt ontend-pencraft-Box-module__flex-jtify-start--_8fEd ontend-pencraft-Box-module__flex-align-center--rSd6h ontend-pencraft-Box-module__flex-gap-16--TpblU ontend-pencraft-Box-module__paddg-top-8--VHq_j ment-actns"><span class="pencraft ontend-pencraft-Box-module__ret--VfQY8 ontend-pencraft-Text-module__ratn-hover-unrle--BEYAn ontend-pencraft-Text-module__ret--dW0zZ"><a class="ontend-ma-ments-CommentActns-module__lk--yWV0t ontend-feed-TextLk-module__lk--VuuIc"><div class="pencraft ontend-pencraft-Box-module__ret--VfQY8 ontend-pencraft-Box-module__display-flex--ZqeZt ontend-pencraft-Box-module__flex-align-center--rSd6h ontend-pencraft-Box-module__flex-gap-6--lHgtr"><svg xmlns=" width="16" height="16" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="var(--lor-sendary-themed)" stroke-width="2" stroke-lep="round" stroke-lejo="round" class="luci luci-msage-circle"><path d="m3 21 1.9-5.7a8.5 8.5 0 1 1 3.8 3.8z"></path></svg><div class="pencraft ontend-pencraft-Box-module__ret--VfQY8 ontend-pencraft-Text-module__size-11--k1e8b ontend-pencraft-Text-module__le-height-20--p0dP8 ontend-pencraft-Text-module__weight-medium--x7khA ontend-pencraft-Text-module__font-meta--U_nxy ontend-pencraft-Text-module__lor-pub-sendary-text--OzRTa ontend-pencraft-Text-module__transform-upperse--IDkUL ontend-pencraft-Text-module__ret--dW0zZ ontend-pencraft-Text-module__meta--jzHdd">Reply</div></div></a></span><button tabInx="0" type="button" id="trigger767555" aria-expand="false" aria-haspopup="dialog" aria-ntrols="dialog767556" ariaLabel="View more" class="pencraft ontend-pencraft-Button-module__inButton--xpBoH ontend-pencraft-Button-module__buttonBase--T0hXz ontend-pencraft-Button-module__prry_sendary-theme--YMjyc ontend-pencraft-Button-module__fill_empty--OPYgN"><svg xmlns=" width="16" height="16" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-lep="round" stroke-lejo="round" class="luci luci-more-horizontal"><circle cx="12" cy="12" r="1"></circle><circle cx="19" cy="12" r="1"></circle><circle cx="5" cy="12" r="1"></circle></svg></button></div></td></tr></table><div class="more-repli-ntaer"><a href=" class="more-repli">1 reply by Richard Cheverton</a></div><div class="ment-list-llapser"><div class="ment-list-llapser-le"></div></div></div><div class="ment"><div id="ment-8202919" class="ment-anchor"></div><div id="ment-8202919-reply" class="ment-anchor"></div><table class="ment-ntent"><tr><td class="ment-head"><div class="profile-hover-rd-target ontend-rear2-ProfileAndPublitnHoverCard-module__profileHoverCardTarget--Od_YL"><div class="er-head"><a href="><div class="profile-img-wrap"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset=" /><img src=" siz="100vw" alt width="66" height="66" class="ontend-ponents-rponsive_img-module__img--Pgjj2" /></picture></div></a></div></div></td><td class="ment-rt"><div class="ment-meta"><span class="menter-name"><div class="visibily-check"></div><div class="pencraft ontend-pencraft-Box-module__ret--VfQY8 ontend-pencraft-Box-module__display-flex--ZqeZt ontend-pencraft-Box-module__display-le-flex--ZE941 ontend-pencraft-Box-module__flex-align-center--rSd6h ontend-pencraft-Box-module__flex-gap-4--zeW5_"><div class="profile-hover-rd-target ontend-rear2-ProfileAndPublitnHoverCard-module__profileHoverCardTarget--Od_YL"><a href="><div class="pencraft ontend-pencraft-Box-module__ret--VfQY8 ontend-pencraft-Text-module__size-14--Ume6q ontend-pencraft-Text-module__le-height-20--p0dP8 ontend-pencraft-Text-module__weight-semibold--LJBj3 ontend-pencraft-Text-module__font-text--QmNJR ontend-pencraft-Text-module__lor-pub-primary-text--RzL7j ontend-pencraft-Text-module__ret--dW0zZ ontend-pencraft-Text-module__body4--Pl3xY">Inkberrow</div></a></div></div></span><a href=" rel="nofollow" native class="ment-timtamp">Aug 6, 2022</a><span class="highlight"><svg role="img" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="#000000" stroke-width="1.8" stroke="#000" xmlns="><g><tle></tle><path d="M20.4134 4.58753C19.9121 4.08434 19.3164 3.68508 18.6606 3.41266C18.0047 3.14023 17.3015 3 16.5914 3C15.8812 3 15.178 3.14023 14.5222 3.41266C13.8663 3.68508 13.2707 4.08434 12.7694 4.58753L12 5.36717L11.2306 4.58753C10.7293 4.08434 10.1337 3.68508 9.47781 3.41266C8.82195 3.14023 8.11878 3 7.40863 3C6.69847 3 5.9953 3.14023 5.33944 3.41266C4.68358 3.68508 4.08793 4.08434 3.58665 4.58753C1.46832 6.70656 1.33842 10.2849 4.00631 13.0037L12 21L19.9937 13.0037C22.6616 10.2849 22.5317 6.70656 20.4134 4.58753Z"></path></g></svg><span class="highlight-text">Liked by Richard Cheverton</span></span></div><div class="ment-body"><p><span>Thanks for this. Sounds like today’s “queer” is for “subversive”.</span></p><div role="button" class="show-all-toggle"><div class="show-all-toggle-label">Expand full ment</div></div></div><div class="pencraft ontend-pencraft-Box-module__ret--VfQY8 ontend-pencraft-Box-module__display-flex--ZqeZt ontend-pencraft-Box-module__flex-jtify-start--_8fEd ontend-pencraft-Box-module__flex-align-center--rSd6h ontend-pencraft-Box-module__flex-gap-16--TpblU ontend-pencraft-Box-module__paddg-top-8--VHq_j ment-actns"><span class="pencraft ontend-pencraft-Box-module__ret--VfQY8 ontend-pencraft-Text-module__ratn-hover-unrle--BEYAn ontend-pencraft-Text-module__ret--dW0zZ"><a class="ontend-ma-ments-CommentActns-module__lk--yWV0t ontend-feed-TextLk-module__lk--VuuIc"><div class="pencraft ontend-pencraft-Box-module__ret--VfQY8 ontend-pencraft-Box-module__display-flex--ZqeZt ontend-pencraft-Box-module__flex-align-center--rSd6h ontend-pencraft-Box-module__flex-gap-6--lHgtr"><svg xmlns=" width="16" height="16" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="var(--lor-sendary-themed)" stroke-width="2" stroke-lep="round" stroke-lejo="round" class="luci luci-msage-circle"><path d="m3 21 1.9-5.7a8.5 8.5 0 1 1 3.8 3.8z"></path></svg><div class="pencraft ontend-pencraft-Box-module__ret--VfQY8 ontend-pencraft-Text-module__size-11--k1e8b ontend-pencraft-Text-module__le-height-20--p0dP8 ontend-pencraft-Text-module__weight-medium--x7khA ontend-pencraft-Text-module__font-meta--U_nxy ontend-pencraft-Text-module__lor-pub-sendary-text--OzRTa ontend-pencraft-Text-module__transform-upperse--IDkUL ontend-pencraft-Text-module__ret--dW0zZ ontend-pencraft-Text-module__meta--jzHdd">Reply</div></div></a></span><button tabInx="0" type="button" id="trigger767557" aria-expand="false" aria-haspopup="dialog" aria-ntrols="dialog767558" ariaLabel="View more" class="pencraft ontend-pencraft-Button-module__inButton--xpBoH ontend-pencraft-Button-module__buttonBase--T0hXz ontend-pencraft-Button-module__prry_sendary-theme--YMjyc ontend-pencraft-Button-module__fill_empty--OPYgN"><svg xmlns=" width="16" height="16" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-lep="round" stroke-lejo="round" class="luci luci-more-horizontal"><circle cx="12" cy="12" r="1"></circle><circle cx="19" cy="12" r="1"></circle><circle cx="5" cy="12" r="1"></circle></svg></button></div></td></tr></table><div class="ment-list-llapser"><div class="ment-list-llapser-le"></div></div></div></div></div><a href=" class="more-ments">4 more ments...</a></div></div><div class="sgle-post-sectn"><div class="ntaer"><div class="visibily-check"></div><div class="pencraft ontend-pencraft-Box-module__ret--VfQY8 ontend-pencraft-Box-module__paddg-y-24--T7KvM"><div class="portable-archive empty-list"><div class="pencraft ontend-pencraft-Box-module__ret--VfQY8 ontend-pencraft-Box-module__display-flex--ZqeZt ontend-pencraft-Box-module__flex-jtify-space-between--NvIcg ontend-pencraft-Box-module__flex-align-center--rSd6h ontend-pencraft-Box-module__paddg-bottom-16--KVxKv"><div class="pencraft ontend-pencraft-Box-module__ret--VfQY8 ontend-pencraft-Box-module__display-flex--ZqeZt ontend-pencraft-Box-module__flex-gap-8--HFpIK"><div role="button" class="ontend-pencraft-unstable-PillTabs-module__pillTab--cqGWE ontend-pencraft-unstable-PillTabs-module__pillTabActive--bmZsx">Top</div><div role="button" class="ontend-pencraft-unstable-PillTabs-module__pillTab--cqGWE">New</div><div role="button" class="ontend-pencraft-unstable-PillTabs-module__pillTab--cqGWE">Communy</div></div><div role="button" class="ontend-ma-home-ArchiveAdapted-module__inButton--_iQQr"><svg role="img" style="height: 20px; width: 20px;" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke-width="1.8" stroke="#000" xmlns="><g><tle> .

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