Edorial: Stop Sayg “Gay” As An Insult. – Canyon Echo

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Sh straight people say to gay guys.

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THE SOLUTN TO "GAY" INSULTS: FREEDOM OF SPEECH

Do we need laws forbiddg the "gay" sult? * gay is an insult *

Usg gay as an sult is ok. When someone “gay” as an sult, I gantee you ’s jt bee of how easy is to say and spell.

A DAD’S ADVICE TO NEIGHBORHOOD KIDS: DON’T E GAY AS AN SULT

Impartg life lsons to your own kids is part and parcel of parentg, but what about dog that for other people’s children? Aaron Gouveia wrtled wh that qutn when his young son me to him cryg bee an olr kid kept llg him gay. * gay is an insult *

Not bee they are g malicly agast gay people. Tons of words have more than one meang, so why not jt look at the dictnary, the word gay ed as an sult means “foolish, stupid, or unimprsive.

WHAT DO YOU SAY TO ‘THAT’S SO GAY’ & OTHER ANTI-LGBTQ+ COMMENTS?

* gay is an insult *

” Why not jt accept the new meang and ll a day, after all, the word gay has a send meang already, meang “lighthearted and reee.

The same as g gay as an sult don’t imply that gay people are bad. I don’t mean that n’t be ed as an anti-gay thg, I thk the negative stigma should be removed and should be accepted as jt another fn of a word.

AMERIN SULTS/ ROGATORY NAM FOR GAY PEOPLE

Quick qutn for the Amerins among . If you were a ignorant redneck neo nazi type biker ( Geia if matters) how would you scribe gays... * gay is an insult *

I try not to e gay as an sult, but shouldn’t be seen as a slur.

WHAT’S SO BAD ABOUT “THAT’S SO GAY”?

Almost every teacher has heard stunts e the exprsn, “that’s so gay” as a way of puttg down or sultg someone (or to scribe somethg). The lsons will help stunts exame how appropriate language n hurt, and will help them thk of ways to end this kd of name-llg. * gay is an insult *

There was a recent high profile story the news about an 11-year-old boy who mted suici, apparently bee he uld no longer tolerate beg lled “gay. The most mon sult among kids today is “gay.

" Kids get mad when they are lled gay and they sometim get to fights.

EDORIAL: STOP SAYG “GAY” AS AN INSULT.

Stephen O. Murray, The Art of Gay Insultg, Anthropologil Lguistics, Vol. 21, No. 5 (May, 1979), pp. 211-223 * gay is an insult *

I have great passn for gays.

WHY IS THE TERM "GAY" USED AS AN INSULT TO MASCULY?

What is one to do when lled gay?

IS LLG A HOMOSEXUAL PERSON “GAY” OFFENSIVE?

Many anti-bully activists sist that anti-bully laws should specifilly mentn sults agast gays and those of non-heterosexual orientns. If be a crime to sult people, then, is hoped, no one will be attacked wh the “gay” sult, and the associated vlence will disappear.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* GAY IS AN INSULT

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