The Solutn to "Gay" Insults: Freedom of Speech | Psychology Today

Contents:

• HERE'S WHAT FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL WOULD DO AND WHAT WOULDN'T DO
• THE SOLUTN TO "GAY" INSULTS: FREEDOM OF SPEECH
• WHAT DO IT MEAN TO BE GAY? DEFN AND MEANG OF GAY
• ENGLISH PRONUNCIATN OF GAY
• GAY
• LET’S SAY GAY
• "THAT'S SO GAY" IS JT SO WRONG
• SYNONYMS OF GAY
• VIO RURFAC OF KG VON TELLG POLICE HE'S "GAY" TO RELOTE IN JAIL

HERE'S WHAT FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL WOULD DO AND WHAT WOULDN'T DO

Only sce the begng of the 20th century has queer been ed to refer to people who intify as gay or lbian. 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.

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.

THE SOLUTN TO "GAY" INSULTS: FREEDOM OF SPEECH

In the LGBTQ muny, gay liftyle, as well as homosexual liftyle, are sometim owned upon. It’s OK to scribe someone you know who publicly self-intifi as gay, lbian, bisexual, or another sexual orientatn as out. 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. The term homosexual agenda is ed by anti-gay extremists to create a climate of fear and mistst. It’s sometim ed as a disparagg way to scribe the recment of heterosexuals to a homosexual liftyle.

" — 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.

WHAT DO IT MEAN TO BE GAY? DEFN AND MEANG OF GAY

But Florida’s Parental Rights Edutn act — which crics have dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill — has sudnly sparked a natnal war of recent weeks, lears of global rporatns, edorial boards of major newspapers and Hollywood actors have all weighed on the proposed legislatn, wh some llg “eply disturbg” and others “nonntroversial. ” Conversely, opponents say would unfairly target the LGBTQ muny — particularly gay and trans stunts — and is “pretendg to solve a problem that don’t exist.

For starters, cricism that the “Don’t Say Gay” bill do not fact say “gay” anywhere s text is te. The bill, which passed Florida’s Senate last week and the state’s Hoe of Reprentativ Febary, do, however, nta the terms “sexual orientatn” and “genr inty, ” each legal experts say that whether the bill prohibs the word “gay” self is a “distractn. “The ‘Don’t Say Gay’ moniker is a moniker about a certa polil amg of this suatn.

ENGLISH PRONUNCIATN OF GAY

”Beyond brandg, a re argument over the bill centers around whether would prohib the “stctn” or “discsn” of sexual bill’s sponsors have emphatilly stated that the bill would not prohib stunts om talkg about their LGBTQ fai or bar classroom discsns about LGBTQ history, cludg events like the 2016 adly attack on the Pulse nightclub, a gay club Orlando. 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. 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. 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.

GAY

Usg laws to punish people for g “gay” as an sult is not likely to solve the problem, eher.

If people get punished for sultg gays, do you thk they are gog to thk, “Now I rpect gays so much bee I was punished”? We n al wh gay sults all by ourselv, and at the same time help rce prejudice society.

If we go to school together, are the same class, and I always treat you this way, you may even bee my iend even though you hate gays.

LET’S SAY GAY

" The ia that I may be gay disturbs me and I don’t want to adm that I am unsure about my sexual orientatn. You know, you are gog to be the last person the world to know that you are gay! Scenar Number Four: I’m not gay, but you are gog to tell me you heard a mor that I am.

"THAT'S SO GAY" IS JT SO WRONG

Scenar Number Five: I’m not gay, and you e to tell me that other people are spreadg a mor that I am. You are gog to keep on tormentg me, and you are not gog to have rpect eher for me or for gay people general.

I may also want to e the opportuny for a “teachg moment, ” so I’ll ask you:] How do you feel about gays? And you will certaly stop tryg to torment me for beg gay bee your efforts to torment me won’t work. They may not know their own te sexual orientatn yet, and they may not even know the sexual meang of the word “gay.

So you see, we don’t need laws or other people’s protectn to stop people om llg "gay.

SYNONYMS OF GAY

old funny gay quot, funny gay saygs, and funny gay proverbs, llected over the years om a variety. Let's make a law that gay people n have birthdays, but straight people get more ke--you know, to send the right msage to kids. It tak some telligence and sight to figure out you're gay and then a tremendo amount of balls to live and live proudly.

The poetry you read has been wrten for you, each of you - black, whe, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight. The fact that many Amerins nsir a disease says more about them than do about homosexualy. From a relig pot of view, if God had thought homosexualy is a s, he would not have created gay people.

old beg gay quot, beg gay saygs, and beg gay proverbs, llected over the years om a variety. I'd rather be black than gay bee when you're black you don't have to tell your mother.

VIO RURFAC OF KG VON TELLG POLICE HE'S "GAY" TO RELOTE IN JAIL

Beg gay and beg a woman has one big thg mon, which is that we both bee visible after the age of 42. Beg gay don't take your bra away or exclu me om havg the same attribut as anyone else.

I don't particularly like gog on about beg gay or makg a big thg about , but I thk 's a b of a pa to be secretive about . Gay people are the sweett, kst, most artistic, warmt and most thoughtful people the world. As anyone who is gay will nfirm, beg that way is not somethg you bee, is a set of emotnal and physil rpons that jt are.

I would advise any gay person that beg out the real sense n never happen too soon. If someone is gay nd he search for the lord and has good will, who am I to judge? Homosexual or arog homosexual sir; given to social pleasur often cludg dissipatn; offerg fun and gaiety; full of or showg high-spired merriment; bright and pleasant; promotg a feelg of cheer; brightly lored and showy; noun someone who practic homosexualy; havg a sexual attractn to persons of the same sex.

The word “homosexual” has a clil history and is often ed by anti-LGBTQ extremists. 2) Don’t say:” homosexual relatns/relatnship, ” “homosexual uple, ” “homosexual sex.

When you intify a same-sex uple as “a homosexual uple, ” classifi their relatnship as “a homosexual relatnship. What to say stead: ”relatnship, ” “uple” (or, if necsary, “gay/lbian/same-sex uple”), “sex, ” etc.

A good le of thumb is to avoid labelg an activy, emotn, or relatnship as gay, lbian, bisexual, or queer. Phras like “gay liftyle, ” “homosexual liftyle, ” and “transgenr liftyle” are ed to gra LGBTQ+ people.

Notns of a so-lled “homosexual agenda” are ventns of Anti-LGBTQ extremists who have created terms like the “gay agenda” to still fear when LGBTQ+ people are jt tryg to pursue equal opportuni. Sce transgenr aligns wh lbian, gay, bisexual, and queer, you would never say somethg like Kristen Stewart is “lbianed, ” so you wouldn’t say “Laverne Cox is transgenred. The term "gay" may be nfg and even foreign to some, forcg people to ask, "What is gay?

While "gay" n be thought of as a synonym to "homosexual, " there is more to the meang of gay than that.

Homosexualy is nsired to be same-sex sexual attractn and behavr and "gay" is a synonym of homosexualy. The term "homosexualy"1 was first ed by Victorian scientists who nsired same-sex sexual attractn and behavr a "moral ficiency. Homosexualy is still the rrect term clilly, but even though homosexualy is no longer nsired immoral, some people feel there are still negative overton to the word given s orig.

The term "gay" was ially a slang term veloped to overe some of the negative associatns. For example, a person may feel same-sex sexual attractn but not intify as "gay" whereas another person who behav sexually towards men and women may intify as "gay.