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Clive Coleman reports on the se of a gay man who has won the first pensatn award for discrimatn based entirely on homophobic gtur.

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WHAT DO LIMP WRISTS HAVE TO DO WH GAY MEN?

After enuragg fathers to “punch” sons who exhib stereotypilly gay behavr, North Carola pastor Sean Harris said on Tuday that he should... * gay hand gesture *

After enuragg fathers to “punch” sons who exhib stereotypilly gay behavr, North Carola pastor Sean Harris said on Tuday that he should have chosen different words.

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” Why do we associate a limp wrist wh male homosexualy?

This had nothg to do wh homosexualy—the Romans didn’t nsir gay sex, per se, unmanly. In the 18th century, however, Europeans me to thk of homosexualy as a character tra rather than an ocsnal behavr, and gay sex beme the anthis of manls. Durg this time, limp wrists me to signify not jt ill disciple, but var other supposed failur of manhood, such as homosexualy, exhibnism, and foppery.

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) As the ornamentatn and leisure of urtly life fell out of favor wh men, a limp wrist—often wh the other hand placed on the hip an “I’m a Ltle Teapot” pose—me to symbolize the unmanly homosexual stereotype.

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Whatever s origs, the associatn of limp wrists wh male homosexualy was very well-tablished the Uned Stat by the begng of the 20th century.

” At some pot—certaly by the early 20th century, but maybe even earlier—gay men -opted stereotypil postur and hand gtur as a way to signal their sexual orientatn. In a 1919 homosexualy trial New Hampshire, for example, the judge asked a wns how gay men intified each other.

The wns said a gay man “acted sort of peculiar, walkg around wh his hands on his hips… the exprsn wh the ey and the gtur. In his ntroversial stctns on how to al wh gay-actg children, Pastor Sean Harris picked up on a recurrg theme popular culture: how to tra apparently gay men to assume stereotypilly heterosexual mannerisms. Strewn across flags, banners, and ps, the rabow symboliz the diversy of gays and lbians around the world.

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The Internatnal Gay Rights Congrs Edburgh formally adopted the symbol as an in for gay and lbian rights 1974. Tradnally, the symbol is drawn pla black, but more recent versns pict the double mars wh the rabow lors filled to symbolize the gays’ aterny or solidary wh other subsectors of the muny.

The pk triangle symbol was first ed by the Nazis to intify homosexuals their ncentratn mps. Over the urse of the send world war, an timated 10, 000 to 15, 000 homosexuals were rcerated. The symbol has sce been reclaimed as a symbol of Pri and remembrance of the horrors that gay men experienced Nazi Germany.

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Green was a mon lor to refer to homosexuals, back 19th-century England.

This was a practice popularized by thor Osr Wil who was openly gay and would proudly wear a green rnatn at public events. Back the 20th century New York, gay men would wear a red necktie or bow tie or basilly any red accsory to subtly reprent their inti and help intify members of the same muny.

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Burke, who was believed to be gay, got chewed out often by his ach. Fortunately, after retirg at age 27, Burke ught a send wd and domated the Gay Softball World Seri where he kept the practice of givg high-fiv to his teammat. Smh lled the high five a “fiant symbol of gay pri”.

Boston artists Daniel Thaxton and Bernie Toale ed a lavenr rhoceros to symbolize the gay muny for their 1970s public ad mpaign led by Gay Media Actn Advertisg. The ads were ed to enurage more visibily for members of the gay muny Boston at the time.

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