Do we need laws forbiddg the "gay" sult?
Contents:
- IS LLG A HOMOSEXUAL PERSON “GAY” OFFENSIVE?
- THE SOLUTN TO "GAY" INSULTS: FREEDOM OF SPEECH
- THE TIME SWES CALLED GAY TO WORK 1979
- WHAT DO YOU SAY TO ‘THAT’S SO GAY’ & OTHER ANTI-LGBTQ+ COMMENTS?
- 34 OF THE BT RPONS WHEN SOMEONE ASSUM AND CALLS YOU GAY
IS LLG A HOMOSEXUAL PERSON “GAY” OFFENSIVE?
* calling people gay *
"Gay", on s face, is not a rogatory term. 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).
THE SOLUTN TO "GAY" INSULTS: FREEDOM OF SPEECH
Homosexualy was still classified as an illns Swen 1979. Swes protted by llg sick to work, claimg they felt gay. * calling people gay *
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. Only sce the begng of the 20th century has queer been ed to refer to people who intify as gay or lbian.
THE TIME SWES CALLED GAY TO WORK 1979
The standard fn of homosexual is “a person sexually attracted to people of one’s own sex. ” But, ’s typilly applied to men, and lbian is the term for a female homosexual.
GLAAD prefers that we don’t e the term homosexual bee ’s “aggrsively ed by anti-gay extremists to suggt that gay people are somehow diseased or psychologilly/emotnally disorred.
WHAT DO YOU SAY TO ‘THAT’S SO GAY’ & OTHER ANTI-LGBTQ+ COMMENTS?
Bee suggts that beg lbian, gay, bisexual, or of another sexual orientatn is a choice and the person n be “cured. The word gay refers to a homosexual man, but origally meant “lighthearted, joyful, reee.
” Gay as an adjective meang “homosexual” go back at least to the 1930s.
Today, gay liftyle is a monly ed—and mised—term. In the LGBTQ muny, gay liftyle, as well as homosexual liftyle, are sometim owned upon.
34 OF THE BT RPONS WHEN SOMEONE ASSUM AND CALLS YOU GAY
It’s OK to scribe someone you know who publicly self-intifi as gay, lbian, bisexual, or another sexual orientatn as out.
It’s also OK to scribe someone as openly gay, lbian, or bisexual.
But never out someone, or expose their lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr inty, whout permissn. But, people who are gay, lbian, bisexual, or transgenr also re about a wi variety of other polil, social, and cultural issu.