After Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill was signed to law, kids n still fight back schools — and I know why ’s so important that they do.
Contents:
- COLUMN: KEEP SAYG ‘GAY,’ SPE NEW LEGISLATN. KIDS NEED TO HEAR
- I DON’T CARE WHAT FLORIDA TELLS US — KEEP “SAYG GAY” AT SCHOOL
- SUPPORTG LGBTQ YOUTH: WHY PEOPLE SHOULD KEEP SAYG GAY
- DISNEY’S MARSHALL WEBM WS PUBLICIST OF YEAR, ENURAG KIDS TO “KEEP SAYG THE WORD ‘GAY'”
- KEEP SAYG GAY PLAYLIST
- THE SOLUTN TO "GAY" INSULTS: FREEDOM OF SPEECH
- VIO OF TMP SAYG 'WE HAVE TO KEEP OUR COUNTRY GAY' VIEWED 1M TIM
- HOW DO I KNOW I’M NOT REALLY GAY/STRAIGHT?
- DO YOU SOUND GAY? WHAT OUR VOIC TELL – AND WHAT THEY DON’T
- THE 'GAY' WORD: WHAT DO MEAN WHEN YOUNG PEOPLE E NEGATIVELY?
COLUMN: KEEP SAYG ‘GAY,’ SPE NEW LEGISLATN. KIDS NEED TO HEAR
A documentary about drag balls ma all the difference for me as a young gay man. Posive reprentatn matters. * keep saying gay *
The documentary — shg a spotlight on queer muni of lor and drag balls New York Cy — did not make me gay.
Ron DeSantis may be hoggg all the attentn for startg the flood of so-lled “Don’t Say Gay” bills across the untry (we’re up to 12 and untg), but don’t sleep on the “don’t read gay” effort that’s been workg the associatn said that last year had the largt number of book challeng sce began trackg them 20 years ago.
And that’s not cludg some of the “Don’t Say Gay” pyt bills that have followed sce the work published s fdgs ’t say . “Ex-gay” relig cults like Exod Internatnal. Tennsee’s HB 800 would ban learng materials that “promote, normalize, support or addrs lbian, gay, bi-sexual, or transgenr issu or liftyle.
I DON’T CARE WHAT FLORIDA TELLS US — KEEP “SAYG GAY” AT SCHOOL
* keep saying gay *
And be not mistaken: The vague wordg of that bill uld potentially crimalize a fay photo stg on a gay teacher’s sk if that fay don’t look the way Tennsee lawmakers thk that should. “The church don’t hate gay people, I don’t hate gay people.
SUPPORTG LGBTQ YOUTH: WHY PEOPLE SHOULD KEEP SAYG GAY
Celebrate Pri Month wh the spiratnal LGBTQ quot. Fd msag about hope and love om celebri, activists and gay rights trailblazers. * keep saying gay *
“There is nothg wrong or bad about beg gay, but is clear that a hband and a wife is what God tend.
DISNEY’S MARSHALL WEBM WS PUBLICIST OF YEAR, ENURAG KIDS TO “KEEP SAYG THE WORD ‘GAY'”
Do we need laws forbiddg the "gay" sult? * keep saying gay *
It wasn’t the first time anti-gay msagg was celly dropped onto my shoulrs at school, and wouldn’t be the last time eher. But even wh this reassurance, took me a long time to e to terms wh my sexualy: I spent eight hours a day trapped at school, beg battered wh sual homophobic remarks om teachers and stunts alike. It built somethg wh me that I wouldn’t unrstand for years to e, heavy like a are the memori that e back to me when I thk of Florida’s Hoe Bill 1557, aka the Don’t Say Gay Bill, which was signed to law by Gov.
Stunts Florida (and around the untry) are fightg back agast the Don’t Say Gay policy wh peer-led walk-outs, prottg this law support of themselv and their classmat. It would have meant everythg to me as a kid if the iends I loved and the peers I sat bi for hours took actn agast the anti-gay msagg promoted my school system. That number rose by six percentage pots sce 2016 — but wh laws like Don’t Say Gay takg effect, stunts n do more.
When I me out at age 23, the first place I turned was to my queer iends, who held me, lerally and figuratively, when ternalized homophobia and fear ate away at me om the si. In a world where Don’t Say Gay has bee law, that dream hangs the balance. I refe to not say gay; I’ll keep sayg , whisperg , shoutg out loud bee there are simply too many people who still need to hear .
KEEP SAYG GAY PLAYLIST
We might thk we know what a gay person sounds like. But there are veats to the cliche — and ‘voice-shamg’ tells a lot more about our culture than do about the person speakg * keep saying gay *
My TikTok is filled wh vios about Florida’s Parental Rights Edutn act, dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill by crics: a bill that prohibs the discsn of sexual orientatn or genr inty krgarten through third gra classrooms the state. We, as a natn that is built on the ia of eedom, mt work together to protect our transgenr kids, our gay kids, our nonbary kids, our asexual kids ‒ the list go on and on. I hope one day will be okay to say gay aga.
sophomore journalism major and The Rir News featur and entertament -edor. In rponse to Florida’s Parental Rights Edutn legislatn (what crics lls the “don’t say gay bill”), many on the left have taken upon them to proclaim the word “gay” wherever they n be heard.
THE SOLUTN TO "GAY" INSULTS: FREEDOM OF SPEECH
I’m genuely cur about what this child-like visceral reactn to a bill, that don’t prohib what those that shout “gay” seemgly thk do, acplish. He closed his speech wh an exclamatn pot urty of a not-so-subtle nod to the ntroversy surroundg the “Don’t Say Gay” bill Florida, somethg that has bee que the hot-button issue for Disney employe followg CEO Bob Chapek’s ial rponse that the rporate behemoth would steer clear of such issu. “Please keep sayg the word ‘gay, ’ is a great word.
He gave a really sweet, heartfelt and teary acceptance speech durg which he even addrsed the swirl around “Don’t Say Gay” bill by shoutg out kids out there who may be stgglg.
VIO OF TMP SAYG 'WE HAVE TO KEEP OUR COUNTRY GAY' VIEWED 1M TIM
“It gets better” he said, and say gay…. do anyone know yet why they keep sayg beg gay/trans is a trend?
HOW DO I KNOW I’M NOT REALLY GAY/STRAIGHT?
There's not a week that go by whout hearg of a threat agast gay bars & drag queens & queer books & 's a trend? " — Tammy Baldw"The next time someone asks you why LGBT Pri march exist or why Gay Pri Month is June tell them, 'A bisexual woman named Brenda Howard thought should be.
" — David Carter, "Stonewall: The Rts That Sparked the Gay Revolutn""Every sgle Amerin — gay, straight, lbian, bisexual, transgenr — every sgle Amerin serv to be treated equally the ey of the law and the ey of our society. Livg up to s tle, “Mookie’s Big Gay Mixtape” (Eight Eat Eight) by sexy AF Mike Maimone is required spng for all Pri (and beyond) ftivi. Bi sger/songwrer Betty Who beme somethg of an “overnight sensatn” when her 2012 song “Somebody Lov You” was ed as the soundtrack for a choreographed, flash mob, gay weddg proposal vio staged a Home Depot.
It trat me when people keep sayg that Tim Drake is gay. Anytime Tim is brought up when to love terts, people keep mistakg him for gay jt bee he's terted Bernard (or are they datg? Him beg a relatnship wh a man don't make him gay, nor do him beg a relatnship wh a woman make him straight.
DO YOU SOUND GAY? WHAT OUR VOIC TELL – AND WHAT THEY DON’T
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. What is one to do when lled gay? Many anti-bully activists sist that anti-bully laws should specifilly mentn sults agast gays and those of non-heterosexual orientns.
THE 'GAY' WORD: WHAT DO MEAN WHEN YOUNG PEOPLE E NEGATIVELY?
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. One of the problems wh makg illegal to ll someone “gay” is that vlat the First Amendment right to Freedom of Speech. The tth is that society has e a long way recent s toward rcg hatred and discrimatn agast gays.
However, will be a while–if ever–before anti-gay sentiment disappears pletely. So what is one to do when lled gay? Usg laws to punish people for g “gay” as an sult is not likely to solve the problem, eher.