Farce majre: David Mamet mak wh the gay jok, reflectg straight men to themselv. - Free Onle Library

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• FARCE MAJRE: DAVID MAMET MAK WH THE GAY JOK, REFLECTG STRAIGHT MEN TO THEMSELV.

FARCE MAJRE: DAVID MAMET MAK WH THE GAY JOK, REFLECTG STRAIGHT MEN TO THEMSELV.

”He ma the remark while discsg a Florida law prohibg classroom discsn of sexual orientatn and genr inty certa younger gras, a law opponents have labeled “Don’t Say Gay. ” And the culture wrer Mark Harris wrote on Twter, “At a time of creasg threats to gay people, David Mamet has chosen to ally himself wh the purveyors of a vic ugly slanr that will endanger teachers and LGBT Amerins.

Speakg on Fox News Sunday, Mamet gave his two cents on the subject of muny ntrol of tn, after Florida passed a so-lled “Don’t Say Gay” bill, which bans sexual orientatn or genr om beg tght to children unr 10. Discsg the very real and not at all ma-up or nakedly homophobic moral panic over “groomg” schools, Mamet told Mark Lev, “This has always been the problem wh tn. Well, as this nversatn happened the ntext of Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill — which forbids teachers om discsg sexual orientatn wh stunts any way and has largely been cried as discrimatory — one n only assume that Mamet believ, as have many homophob before him, that queerns is lked to sexual predatn.

You the right wg’s gay-groomg-pedophile culture war latn may seem to have spng up out of nowhere the past few months, this anti-LGBTQ myth has s of history behd . Its most famo proponent was Ana Bryant, who succsfully mpaigned agast an anti-discrimatn law Da County, Florida, while argug that “a particularly viant-md [gay] teacher uld sexually molt children. Ron DeSantis that tractors have dubbed the "Don't Say Gay" bill.