Now I know you won't believe this but a right old bate is gog on over on the X Factor fom as to whether the term homosexual is offensive to ll gay men.
Contents:
- IS LLG A HOMOSEXUAL PERSON “GAY” OFFENSIVE?
- ‘THIS BOOK IS GAY’ AUTHOR SAYS AMERI’S TEENS HAVE BIGGER PROBLEMS THAN HER BOOK
- FRANKL GRAHAM SAYS GAY PRI RABOW FLAGS 'OFFENSIVE' TO CHRISTIANS, APPLDS US EMBASSY BAN
- THE DISTURBG SECRET MSAGE OF THE ‘GAY PRI’ FLAG
- OFFENSIVE WORDS…”GAY” BEG USED AS AN INSULT
- GAY
IS LLG A HOMOSEXUAL PERSON “GAY” OFFENSIVE?
* is gay offensive *
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.
‘THIS BOOK IS GAY’ AUTHOR SAYS AMERI’S TEENS HAVE BIGGER PROBLEMS THAN HER BOOK
Sh straight people say to gay guys. * is gay offensive *
When you intify a same-sex uple as “a homosexual uple, ” classifi their relatnship as “a homosexual relatnship.
FRANKL GRAHAM SAYS GAY PRI RABOW FLAGS 'OFFENSIVE' TO CHRISTIANS, APPLDS US EMBASSY BAN
GAY meang: 1 : sexually or romantilly attracted to someone who is the same sex; 2 : of, relatg to, or ed by gay people * is gay offensive *
What to say stead: ”relatnship, ” “uple” (or, if necsary, “gay/lbian/same-sex uple”), “sex, ” etc.
A good le of thumb is to avoid labelg an activy, emotn, or relatnship as gay, lbian, bisexual, or queer. Phras like “gay liftyle, ” “homosexual liftyle, ” and “transgenr liftyle” are ed to gra LGBTQ+ people. Notns of a so-lled “homosexual agenda” are ventns of Anti-LGBTQ extremists who have created terms like the “gay agenda” to still fear when LGBTQ+ people are jt tryg to pursue equal opportuni.
Sce transgenr aligns wh lbian, gay, bisexual, and queer, you would never say somethg like Kristen Stewart is “lbianed, ” so you wouldn’t say “Laverne Cox is transgenred. Now, my whole life, om the gay muny & om people tg me, I was advised to say & only say homosexual.
THE DISTURBG SECRET MSAGE OF THE ‘GAY PRI’ FLAG
Now I'm beg told not to say homosexual bee of nservative media & extremely tradnal relig folk g the term homosexual & there is a backlash due to the stigma associated wh .
LGBT is still a popular term ed to discs genr and sexual mori, but all GSRM are wele beyond lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people who nsent to participate a safe space. I get that beg gay isn’t supposed to be seen as somethg negative/bad, but when we e the word gay as a joke, I don’t thk should be seen so offensive,.
The “sult” n be also seen offensive, but don’t change the fact that people don’t see offensive, yet when we e the term gay, people start gettg offend and all. For example, I was playg rds wh my classmat, and I said “those l are gay” And than this LBGTQ classmate started llg me homophobic. if sayg somethg is gay is offensive than llg someone a psy should be also offensive nsirg that’s sexist a way, and llg someone a dumbass is also somethg that’s offensive sce beg ls knowledge shouldn’t be seen as an sult/joke.
OFFENSIVE WORDS…”GAY” BEG USED AS AN INSULT
Today’s straight flags or heterosexual flags were created the name of “straight pri” – a ncept that, while seemgly harmls enough, is often rooted homophobic and transphobic sentiments. Sce the 2013 “gay propaganda” law was passed Rsia – a law that bans anyone om “spreadg propaganda of non-tradnal sexual relatns” among mors – the Rsian ernment has ntued to crack down on LGBTQ rights the untry the name of prervg “tradnal valu”. Sometime between then and now, an effort to “warn agast” the so-lled “gay-fever at home” and to “support tradnal valu [the] untry”, the Uned Rsia Party unveiled s own versn of a “straight flag”.
The problematic flag was disparaged by crics not jt for s homophobic msagg but also for s strikg siari to the flag of the French group La Manif Pour To, another anti-same-sex marriage group.
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Glenn Bishop, one of the 12 who sought to fly the flag, told CBC that the group was “not agast the gay pri people at all” and that “anybody’s sexual preference is their choice” – echog nservative sentiments about gayns beg a matter of personal choice rather than an herent inty. One er replied to a transcript of the mayor’s speech the day the flag was raised: “Homophobia disguised as ‘equaly. But the legimacy of this so-lled missn to qutn when many of the group’s members are associated wh var homophobic, transphobic, and whe supremacist far-right factns such as the Proud Boys, the New Amerin Guard, and Rist Marxism.