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Contents:

• GAY (HOMOSEXUAL) AND GAY (HAPPY)
• THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG
• HOW TO BE HAPPY AS A GAY MAN
• "THAT'S SO GAY" IS JT SO WRONG
• HAPPY & GAY
• ARE GAY MEN HAPPIER THAN STRAIGHT MEN?
• GAY
• WHO ARE THE HAPPIT? STRAIGHTS AND GAYS, BUT NOT BISEXUALS
• MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH
• THE MEANG OF GAY: WHAT IT IS AND HOW TO USE IT
• IS GAY ANOTHER WORD FOR HAPPY?

GAY (HOMOSEXUAL) AND GAY (HAPPY)

Tom Robson a Brish mician and sger, one of the first, if not the very first pop artist who did not disguise or hi his homosexualy om the general public. Until then homosexual actors, micians, athlet or anyone the public eye had two choic life: to keep their homosexualy a secret, pecially om the media, or adopt the mannerisms and a of drs which were very mp but at the same time (ironilly) never admtg their sexual preferenc publicly.

THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG

Tom Robson released a very succsful song entled (Sg if you're) Glad to be Gay, was the mid-70s, and I was still at a Catholic primary school when I remember que distctly hearg gay beg ed for the first time to unteract the BrEng rogatory terms such as: poofter, poof, queer, not normal, fairy and queen that were rife at the time. The song was origally wrten by Tom Robson for a London gay pri.

"Glad to Be Gay" is built around four vers cricizg Brish society's attus towards gay people. In the first verse, criciz the Brish police for raidg gay pubs for no reason at all, once homosexualy had been crimalized sce the 1967 Sexual Offenc Act.

In the send verse, pots to the hypocrisy of Gay News beg prosecuted for obsceny stead of porn magaz like magaz Playboy or the tabloid The Sun which publish photographs of topls girls on Page 3. It also criciz the way homosexual people are portrayed other parts of the prs, pecially nservative newspapers News of the World and Sunday Exprs.

HOW TO BE HAPPY AS A GAY MAN

On the third verse, pots out the extreme nsequenc of homophobia, such as vlence agast LGBT people. For me, a young child livg London at the time, the term gay (meang homosexual and not "happy") was ed much more equently by the media and the general public after the release of "Glad to be Gay". It also helped that Tom Robson looked straight and was not the least mp, he did not f the stereotypil ia of how homosexuals looked and behaved.

Eventually, one ntracts productn, box office & pany Vios1More like thisReview powerful drama revolvg around very lovable characters"Hoe of Boys" was the peak of the London Lbian Gay Film Ftival April 2011.

"THAT'S SO GAY" IS JT SO WRONG

We’ve left the dull, homophobic towns, but we’ve lost somethg the procs. Spend any time around teens, and you’re likely to hear the mon exprsn, “That’s so gay" — even among gay kids. If you ask them about , as some rearchers have, they often will sist that is not tend as homophobic language, jt a harmls phrase to exprs tratn or somethg siar.

HAPPY & GAY

Studi reveal that 30 percent of gay adolcents stggle wh suicidal thoughts. “That’s so gay” is always pejorative, always harmful, and always homophobic. Thk about this: For thoands of years, religns have lled homosexualy an abomatn.

People still get murred if someone thks they are gay, and not jt other untri. When most people hear the term LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual or transsexual), for stance, they equate to havg adult sex.

ARE GAY MEN HAPPIER THAN STRAIGHT MEN?

Another client’s mother once ught him lookg at gay porn, and said, horrified, “You’re not gay, are you?

” Later when the parents learned their children were gay, they apologized to them for sayg the thgs, but the damage was already done.

GAY

Hearg kids sayg, “that’s so gay” every day mak the people and everythg else around them qutnable: Are thgs safe or dangero?

What, then, n be done about makg kids (and the rt of ) more aware of the harm g such phras as “That’s so gay? But parents who are enough aware of language’s substrata n help by helpg their kids’ schools unrstand the value of practicg the same kd of zero tolerance for homophobic language that they do for racist or anti-Semic or bullyg language. The bt thg I have seen is the mpaign “ThkB4YouSpeak” by GLSEN (Gay, Lbian School Edutor Network).

WHO ARE THE HAPPIT? STRAIGHTS AND GAYS, BUT NOT BISEXUALS

Anti-LGBT remarks such as “that’s so gay” are often untentnal and a mon part of teens’ vernacular.

MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH

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THE MEANG OF GAY: WHAT IT IS AND HOW TO USE IT

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IS GAY ANOTHER WORD FOR HAPPY?

"A new study has found that gay and bisexual men are ls likely to be prsed and have psychologil problems than heterosexual men.

Alas, none of this good news for gays and spankg fetishists is really backed up by the data the origal study, which, while trigug, is hardly evince that is beg out and gay that mak men happier (let alone women).

For one, the study reced participants Montreal, a large and fairly progrsive cy where beg openly gay do not e wh high social or enomic sts. While gay men the study seemed to experience ls strs and prsn than straight men, there are a variety of alternative explanatns that might expla this fact (like whether they worked out or not; whether they had children or not; e level and stabily).