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Contents:

• SYNONYMS OF 'GAY' BRISH ENGLISH
• HERE'S WHAT FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL WOULD DO AND WHAT WOULDN'T DO
• GAY
• SYNONYMS OF GAY
• ¿SOY GAY?
• FLORIDA'S ERNOR SIGNS NTROVERSIAL LAW OPPONENTS DUBBED 'DON'T SAY GAY'
• WHAT DO ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ ACTUALLY SAY?
• FLORIDA JT PASSED THE "DON'T SAY GAY" BILL. HERE’S WHAT IT MEANS FOR KIDS
• AS FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW TAK EFFECT, SCHOOLS ROLL OUT LGBTQ RTRICTNS
• ¿QUé TAN GAY ER?

SYNONYMS OF 'GAY' BRISH ENGLISH

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See exampl for synonyms Usage noteBy far the most mon and up-to-date e of the word gay is reference to beg homosexual. Synonymssparky, gay (old-fashned), alive and kickg, full of beans (rmal), ztfulDefnvery happy or cheerfulHis spir was anythg but blhe below the surface. He spoke around the world about God and sexualy, beg a key figure the expansn of the ex-gay movement to the global church.

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

By his acunt, he beme active the “gay scene, ” spendg his nights at the cy’s clubs and diss, and also workg on the streets as a prostute. Rogers sometim attend the island’s Metropolan Communy Church, which was at the time lled “the gay church, ” bee the nomatn found 1968 affirmed LGBT inti and blsed same-sex relatnships. Then the same-sex uple who had gotten married Hawaii wrote him they had “turned away om the homosexual liftyle and inty” bee they had bee Christians.

Rogers joed a Christian support group and unselg center lled Eltheros (a Greek word meang “eeborn”), which was unr the umbrella of Exod Internatnal, the proment ex-gay mistry. Rogers said he thought that for every person who was happy as a homosexual, there were another 10 who wanted to be straight.

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That same year, 4, 855 people died of HIV/AIDS, and a disproportnate number of them were gay men. The “gay plague, ” acrdg to Christian lears like Jerry Falwell, was God’s judgement on homosexuals. Rogers said a homosexual uld stop beg a homosexual, but the transformatn uld take years and a lot of effort.

Rogers helped globalize the ex-gay movement 1991, when he moved to Sgapore and found Choic, a mistry of a megachurch Queenstown.

SYNONYMS OF GAY

“I’ve heard story after story of chang that have occurred as men and women fd the grace of God their liv as homosexual people, ” one ex-ex-gay lear said 2011.

Rogers did not repudiate the teachgs of the ex-gay movement, but he did shift his rhetoric and change the emphasis of his teachg.

The gay subculture of early Hollywood has gaed more attentn recently thanks to the Netflix seri Hollywood. Knowg as much as we do about some LGBT stars is a feat nsirg how much rewrg and verg up the Hollywood stud heads did to everyone they managed, whether gay or straight. In his own words, he felt “pafully isolated, strand between the sual homophobia of most ‘normal’ people and the flagrantly gay Hollywood subculture – where [he] was even ls fortable and ls accepted.

¿SOY GAY?

Five years before Hunter beme a star, he was arrted along wh several other men for “lewdns, ” a mon charge for men showg any signs of homosexualy public.

Cor may have never been able to explicly talk about his sexualy, but he helped solidify the gay muny Hollywood. Kelly is one of the very few women to explicly talk about her homosexualy durg her reer om the 1930s to the 1940s.

Clift never publicly talked about , but close iend Elizabeth Taylor admted he was gay at the 2000 GLAAD Media Awards. The two acted three movi together, cludg Sudnly, Last Summer, which had Clift play a gay man.

FLORIDA'S ERNOR SIGNS NTROVERSIAL LAW OPPONENTS DUBBED 'DON'T SAY GAY'

Their marriage is believed to be a lavenr marriage, which was an arrangement ma to bunk mors that they were both gay.

Diana McLellan mentns this her book The Girls and the uple’s relatnship is heavily analyzed William Mann’s Behd the Screen: How Gays and Lbians Shaped Hollywood, 1910-1969. Actor Bob Cummgs is quoted the book as sayg, “Ja Gaynor’s hband was Adrian, the MGM fashn signer. Gaynor and Adrian were succsful durg a time when any sort of evince of their homosexualy would have hurt their reers, so ’s not surprisg that there isn’t ncrete evince about the tth of their relatnship.

WHAT DO ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ ACTUALLY SAY?

But Florida’s Parental Rights Edutn act — which crics have dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill — has sudnly sparked a natnal war of recent weeks, lears of global rporatns, edorial boards of major newspapers and Hollywood actors have all weighed on the proposed legislatn, wh some llg “eply disturbg” and others “nonntroversial. ” Conversely, opponents say would unfairly target the LGBTQ muny — particularly gay and trans stunts — and is “pretendg to solve a problem that don’t exist.

For starters, cricism that the “Don’t Say Gay” bill do not fact say “gay” anywhere s text is te. The bill, which passed Florida’s Senate last week and the state’s Hoe of Reprentativ Febary, do, however, nta the terms “sexual orientatn” and “genr inty, ” each legal experts say that whether the bill prohibs the word “gay” self is a “distractn.

”Beyond brandg, a re argument over the bill centers around whether would prohib the “stctn” or “discsn” of sexual bill’s sponsors have emphatilly stated that the bill would not prohib stunts om talkg about their LGBTQ fai or bar classroom discsns about LGBTQ history, cludg events like the 2016 adly attack on the Pulse nightclub, a gay club Orlando.

FLORIDA JT PASSED THE "DON'T SAY GAY" BILL. HERE’S WHAT IT MEANS FOR KIDS

Strewn across flags, banners, and ps, the rabow symboliz the diversy of gays and lbians around the world. 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.

AS FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW TAK EFFECT, SCHOOLS ROLL OUT LGBTQ RTRICTNS

The symbol has sce been reclaimed as a symbol of Pri and remembrance of the horrors that gay men experienced Nazi Germany. 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.

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.

¿QUé TAN GAY ER?

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 practice of gay people intifyg as unirns beme popular 2018, as unirn horns and actual unirn stum ma their way to Pri events. To prott the creasg number of news articl agast the LGBTQ people San Francis 1969, 60 members of the Gay Liberatn Front and Society of Human Rights staged a rally on Halloween night.

But the protters did not stop and ed the k thrown at them to prt purple hands on the walls of the buildg and scrawl “Gay Power”.