'Don't say gay': Parents of LGBTQ kids are aaid for their safety

Contents:

• PEOPLE N INTIFY WHETHER A MAN IS GAY OR STRAIGHT BY THEIR VOICE. BISEXUALS? NOT SO MUCH
• FLORIDA TEACHERS FORCED TO EXPLA THEY’RE NOT TEACHG KIDS TO BE GAY
• A DAD’S ADVICE TO NEIGHBORHOOD KIDS: DON’T E GAY AS AN SULT
• A GAY KID’S LETTER TO SANTA IS BREAKG THE TER’S HEART
• IF THEY 'SAY GAY,' WILL MY CHILD BE SAFE? PARENTS OF LGBTQ KIDS ARE SRED OF PYT LAWS
• LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
• FLORIDA ULD GIVE TEACHERS 6 WEEKS TO OUT GAY STUNTS TO THEIR PARENTS, EVEN IF THEY’LL GET ABED
• MALAYSIA CUTS SHORT MIC FT AFTER BRISH BAND SLAMS ANTI-GAY LAWS, SGER KISS MALE BANDMATE

PEOPLE N INTIFY WHETHER A MAN IS GAY OR STRAIGHT BY THEIR VOICE. BISEXUALS? NOT SO MUCH

Prev rearch has dited that the abily to terme whether a man is gay om his voice om a batn of factors. A higher pch, wir pch range, longer vowels, expand vowel space, and more precise pronunciatn are voice characteristics associated wh gay men. Scientists hypothized that bisexual men’s voic might be nsired more feme-soundg than straight men’s and more mascule-soundg than gay men’s when me to self-reported and observer-reported masculy and femy.

One hundred sixty participants, divid evenly between men and women, were asked to listen to voice sampl om 60 men (divid evenly between gay, bisexual, and straight men). They rated the voic on a sle of zero (exclively heterosexual) to ten (exclively homosexual). 62% of the participants uld distguish between a gay man’s and a straight man’s voice.

Instead, their voic were rated more mascule than both straight and gay men’s voic. They were also rated to be more exclively attracted to women than men than straight or gay men. Rearch to bisexualy has lagged due to “bisexual erasure, ” the tenncy to overlook the largt segment of the LGBTQ+ muny favor of gay or straight men.

FLORIDA TEACHERS FORCED TO EXPLA THEY’RE NOT TEACHG KIDS TO BE GAY

“No one is teachg your kids to be gay! “Sometim, they jt are gay.

I lerally don’t have time to teach your kids to be gay. Amelie Howell, a sophomore high school, held a sign that said “Edutn is not doctratn” and told the board, “It feels like a lot of people are speakg for .

Begng wh the 2022 passage of the Don’t Say Gay law – which prohibs class stctn on sexual orientatn and genr inty krgarten through third gra – DeSantis and the Republin-ntrolled legislature have voted their tenure to monizg LGBTQ+ people and makg schools ls safe for LGBTQ+ stunts. DeSantis has gone to war wh Disney over s opposn to the Don’t Say Gay law, has lnched numero bldsis attackg “woke doctratn” schools, and has taken ntrol of the state’s tn system wh handpicked admistrators and the power of the bully pulp.

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

The Don’t Say Gay law – which has been expand to all gras – has led to the banng of LGBTQ+ books  schools and the forced outg of stunts to their parents by school admistrators.

And are set to wrtle at No Peace Unrground’s Fear The Gay Agenda event on June 11. There have been tim I’ve intified as gay, bi, pan, ace, and others, ” he said.

That’s the qutn I wrtled wh as I nsoled my 7-year-old son who was cryg bee an olr kid the neighborhood kept llg him gay.

A GAY KID’S LETTER TO SANTA IS BREAKG THE TER’S HEART

“Dad, why is beg gay stupid or bad? That means g “gay” as an sult, tellg someone they “throw like a girl” and llg someone a “retard” is banned our fay.

They know our gay iends, they have gay relativ they love, and we discs on a route basis why ments such as those are so hurtful. So, when my son heard olr kids he looks up to g gay as an sult, a part of him wonred if his idol was right. I also remd him that many people around him might be gay or qutng their sexualy and asked him how he thks they’d feel if everyone ed gay as a pejorative.

IF THEY 'SAY GAY,' WILL MY CHILD BE SAFE? PARENTS OF LGBTQ KIDS ARE SRED OF PYT LAWS

The Trevor Project, a nonprof focg on suici preventn efforts among lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer and qutng youth, timat more than 1. “Gay is an inty term, not an sult. "I had very few openly gay role mols, " said Charlee, 30, who is the stepchild of Roy P.

LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE

Charlee's terview one month after Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Chapek apologized to employe for the pany's "silence" amid the passg of Florida's new legislatn, which is nounced by crics as the "Don't Say Gay" bill, after employe anized and wrote letters about the pany's handlg. A letter to Santa sent by a gay kid named “Will” is breakg the ter’s heart. One of them is om Will, who says he’s gay and asks Santa if he n ask God if “He lov me for beg gay.

FLORIDA ULD GIVE TEACHERS 6 WEEKS TO OUT GAY STUNTS TO THEIR PARENTS, EVEN IF THEY’LL GET ABED

Do you support the LGBTQ muny and if you n speak to god n you tell Him I love him, and if He lov me for beg gay. It’s not known what he had been told to make him thk that God n’t love him if he’s gay, whether he had to hi his letter om his parents and send secretly, or if he was worried that a rponse to the letter uld out him.

While Twter is full of straight people sayg he’s too young to know that he’s gay – the are possibly the same straight people who ask two-year-old girls if they’re breakg boy’s hearts or three-year-old boys if they have a girliend yet – a lot of people jt wanted to send Will some support. Latvia swore the first openly gay print of a Baltic natn Rkēvičs, who sce 2011 was the untry’s foreign mister, was elected by Parliament May after Print Egils Levs did not seek re-electn.

MALAYSIA CUTS SHORT MIC FT AFTER BRISH BAND SLAMS ANTI-GAY LAWS, SGER KISS MALE BANDMATE

”Rkēvičs “proudly” announced he is gay on Twter November 2014, though the untry, a former Soviet republic, is not pecially LGBTQ-clive.