‘That’s So Gay’: Language That Hurts, and How to Stop It | ADL

Contents:

• "THAT'S SO GAY" IS JT SO WRONG
• ‘THAT’S SO GAY’: LANGUAGE THAT HURTS, AND HOW TO STOP IT
• JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT
• JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU
• WHAT’S SO BAD ABOUT “THAT’S SO GAY”?
• FEATURED QUIZZ
• SO BIG IT HURTS MEGA BUNDLE: 14 STORI OF MAN OF THE HOE, BRATS AND GAY STERS

"THAT'S SO GAY" IS JT SO WRONG

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. Studi reveal that 30 percent of gay adolcents stggle wh suicidal thoughts.

“That’s so gay” is always pejorative, always harmful, and always homophobic.

‘THAT’S SO GAY’: LANGUAGE THAT HURTS, AND HOW TO STOP IT

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.

Gay Equals Sex. When most people hear the term LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual or transsexual), for stance, they equate to havg adult sex. Another client’s mother once ught him lookg at gay porn, and said, horrified, “You’re not gay, are you?

JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT

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

JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU

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.

WHAT’S SO BAD ABOUT “THAT’S SO GAY”?

The bt thg I have seen is the mpaign “ThkB4YouSpeak” by GLSEN (Gay, Lbian School Edutor Network). Anti-LGBT remarks such as “that’s so gay” are often untentnal and a mon part of teens’ vernacular.

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FEATURED QUIZZ

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SO BIG IT HURTS MEGA BUNDLE: 14 STORI OF MAN OF THE HOE, BRATS AND GAY STERS

G., “that’s so gay”) equently or often at school, and 91. 3% heard other homophobic remarks (e.

Interveng homophobic remarks do not require a discsn about sexualy or the history of anti-LGBT slurs. It don’t matter if the stunt didn’t tend to be homophobic, bee a negative ment about any group has the potential to hurt dividuals and whole muni.

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