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

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GAY

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.

SYNONYMS OF GAY

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. 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.

¿SOY GAY?

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

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

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

WHAT DO ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ ACTUALLY SAY?

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.

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.

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

Kelly is one of the very few women to explicly talk about her homosexualy durg her reer om the 1930s to the 1940s.

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

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. 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. 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.

¿QUé TAN GAY ER?

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.