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Contents:

• GAY RIGHTS CHARY STONEWALL TACKL HOMOPHOBIC LANGUAGE IN BRA'S SCHOOLS
• LET’S SAY GAY
• TEACHG ‘GAY STUFF’ – LET’S GET THIS STRAIGHT
• ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, & INTERSEX LIFE
• IS YOUR MAN GAY, STRAIGHT, OR BISEXUAL?

GAY RIGHTS CHARY STONEWALL TACKL HOMOPHOBIC LANGUAGE IN BRA'S SCHOOLS

Homophobic language Bra’s schools is beg tackled head-on by a leadg gay rights chary. Stonewall’s mpaign rponse to rearch which shows that 99 per cent of lbian, gay and bisexual young people hear phras such as “that’s so gay” or “you’re so gay” school. Pollg by Mums also shows that 68% of parents don’t know if their children’s school has polici to tackle homophobic language.

The new mpaign new posters and guidance to addrs the mise of the word gay and is onted by the sger Will Young.

Posters, sent to schools across Bra, state clearly: “Gay. The posters are acpanied by new guidance for both pupils and teachers to enable them to challenge the rogatory e of the word, who is supportg Stonewall’s Anti-Bullyg Week mpaign, said: “The word ‘gay’ is currently ed as one of the worst sults by young people of all ag Bra’s schools. “It’s clear om the shockg levels of self-harm and suici among gay young people that we’re failg an entire generatn.

LET’S SAY GAY

It’s time to take a stand and put a stop to this eply damagg e of homophobic language. ”Shn Dellenty, an-openly gay puty head teacher at a south London primary school, told HuffPost UK: "I am heartened to hear that Stonewall are lnchg this mpaign. "As the Stonewall School Report 2012 clearly monstrated, homophobia and language remas enmic our schools.

"Dellenty, who has blogged for HuffPost UK on the subject several tim, ns a siar mpaign entled Incln For told : "In my own trag and schools teachers explore and fe the e of the word gay s origal e as 'reee' or 'happy' and children explore g both verbally and wrg. "Pupils then explore the velopment of the word gay to mean same sex love and aga rpectful, dignified discsn is held around this e too. "Stonewall’s Deputy Chief Executive Ruth Hunt said: “We know that many people who sually e the term ‘that’s so gay’ don’t tentnally mean to be offensive.

”Jte Roberts, Founr of mpaign partners Mums, said: “We should all be challengg our children's e of homophobic language and simply shouldn't tolerate phras like that's so gay’ which are everyday e school playgrounds. Mums and Stonewall are also askg dividuals to get volved by wrg to or tweetg their lol schools as well as challengg their own children’s e of homophobic the nversatn on Twter g the hashtag #GetOverItIncln for All Relatedsectn 28Gay Rights newsmumswill youngBefore You GoYou May Like. Sexual orientatn refers to the endurg physil, romantic and/or emotnal attractn to members of the same and/or other genrs, cludg lbian, gay, bisexual and straight orientatns.

TEACHG ‘GAY STUFF’ – LET’S GET THIS STRAIGHT

As GLAAD not, "Transgenr people may be straight, lbian, gay, bisexual or queer. A person who transns om female to male and is attracted solely to men would typilly intify as a gay man. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTPamela Bons /Visum, via RxLast month, the new print of the advocy group Human Rights Campaign, Kelley Robson, posted a six-and-a-half-mute vio to troduce herself and ame the missn of her anizatn, which was found 40 years ago by the gay activist Steve Enan to help fund polil mpaigns for pro-gay-rights ndidat.

ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER

”Not once, however, did she say the word “gay” or “lbian” or “bisexual. The word “gay” is creasgly beg substuted by “queer” or, more broadly, “L.

The word “queer” is climbg equency and n be ed terchangeably wh “gay, ” which self not so long ago replaced the dour and fatly judgy “homosexual. In the same perds, e of “gay” has fallen om 2, 228 to 1, 531 — still more monly ed, but the directn of the evolutn is impossible to miss. ’ media, treat the word ‘lbian’ like ’s the plague, ” noted Julia Diana Robertson the lbian publitn The Velvet ’s be clear: Many lbians and gay people are fe wh this shift.

For one thg, “gay” and “queer” are not synonymo, as they are creasgly treated, particularly among Gen Zers and lennials. Q., ” which sometim clus addnal symbols and letters, reprents so many inti unrelated to sexual orientatn that gays and lbians n feel crowd week on “CBS News Sunday Morng, ” the wrer David Sedaris said he was done “fightg the word ‘queer. “Gay” has a clear, specific meang that appli to both men and women: “homosexual, ” which is the first entry most dictnari.

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, & INTERSEX LIFE

” Another fn refers not only to gay people but also to “a person whose sexual orientatn or genr inty falls outsi the heterosexual mastream or the genr bary, ” acrdg to That uld mean “transgenr, ” “genr ntral, ” “nonbary, ” “agenr, ” “pangenr, ” “genrqueer, ” “misexual, ” “asexual, ” “two spir, ” “third genr” or all, none or some batn of the above.

Queer theory is about liberately breakg down normative tegori around genr and sex, particularly bary on like men and women, straight and gay. Sayg you’re queer uld mean you’re gay; uld mean you’re straight; uld mean you’re uncid about your genr or that you prefer not to say. Sayg you’re queer uld mean as ltle as havg kissed another girl your sophomore year at llege.

IS YOUR MAN GAY, STRAIGHT, OR BISEXUAL?

It uld mean you valiantly plowed through the prose of Judh Butler a urse on queerns the Elizabethan the broad spectm of possibily, ’s no surprise that many people — gay or straight — have no ia what means when someone self-intifi as this is important: Not all gay people see themselv as queer. Many lbian and gay people fe themselv terms of sexual orientatn, not genr.

There are gay men, for example, who grew up sperately needg reassurance that they were jt as much a boy as any hypermanly heterosexual. Whereas homosexualy is a sexual orientatn one nnot choose, queerns is somethg one n, acrdg to Jam Kirchick, the thor of “Secret Cy: The Hidn History of Gay Washgton.