What Florida's 'Don’t Say Gay' bill actually says

Contents:

• WHAT DO ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ ACTUALLY SAY?
• HERE'S WHAT FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL WOULD DO AND WHAT WOULDN'T DO
• WHAT THE BILL DUBBED ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BY CRICS ACTUALLY SAYS
• 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL BE LAW FLORIDA, BANNG SEXUAL ORIENTATN STCTN OM K-3
• WHAT WORDS CAN I SAY TO DECLARE THAT I’M GAY?
• DESANTIS-BACKED 'DONT SAY GAY' BILL SPARKS OUTRAGE
• STRICTLY LEGAL: SU OVER 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL FAILS
• LET’S SAY GAY
• STUNTS CHALLENGE ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAWS AMID WAVE OF ANTI-LGBTQ LEGISLATN

WHAT DO ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ ACTUALLY SAY?

\n Explorg the different meangs of a ntroversial word “gay” is everywhere you look the days.

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

Gay activists support gay rights such as gay marriage, while gay-bashers prott all thgs gay, cludg the gayby boom.

WHAT THE BILL DUBBED ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BY CRICS ACTUALLY SAYS

There’s also been a rash of suicis volvg gay youngsters who were bullied—which is perhaps why the trailer for The Dilemma ught major flak.

'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL BE LAW FLORIDA, BANNG SEXUAL ORIENTATN STCTN OM K-3

Are gay. I mean, not homosexual gay, but, you know, my-parents-are-chaperong-the-dance gay.

Most people are very aware of the meang of “gay” as happy or lame, but the word has had an astoundg range of other meangs as well. What “gay” means pends entirely on your time perd and perspective, and the days, perspective n be hard to fd. The origal sense of “gay” was entirely posive.

WHAT WORDS CAN I SAY TO DECLARE THAT I’M GAY?

” The sense of “gay” as happy or merry dat om the 1400s and spired some bizarrely specific sens, such as “of a horse: lively, prancg” and “of a dog's tail: rried high or erect. ” In several earlier fns, we n see the seeds of “gay” begng to mean homosexual, if only bee the meangs f wh what would bee gay stereotyp. “Wh gay abandon” started meang “wh reckls abandon” the mid-1800s.

“Gay” also meant somethg like “prostute-y” the 1800s, as a “gay woman” or “gay girl” was what we ll a sex worker the days. Another sense, ed sce the 1500s, fs gay stereotyp like a rctnist glove: “... Charl Victor Fremy was sometim very, very gay.

” As far as we n tell, “gay” only started meang homosexual the early 1940s.

DESANTIS-BACKED 'DONT SAY GAY' BILL SPARKS OUTRAGE

They were together then and traveled to another place and stayed there and were gay there... Not very gay there, jt gay there.

STRICTLY LEGAL: SU OVER 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL FAILS

They were both gay there.

LET’S SAY GAY

” The earlit OED exampl of “gay” meang homosexual are om 1941. This example om that year shows jt how -flux (and vert) the meang was: “Supposg one met a stranger on a tra om Boston to New York and wanted to fd out whether he was ‘wise’ or even homosexual.

One might ask: ‘Are there any gay spots Boston? ’ And by a slight accent put on the word ‘gay’ the stranger, if wise, would unrstand that homosexual rorts were meant. ” Meanwhile, exampl of “gay” meang “lame” don't turn up until the 1970s.

’ ‘It looks gay.

STUNTS CHALLENGE ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAWS AMID WAVE OF ANTI-LGBTQ LEGISLATN

Let’s take another look at them: “Ladi and gentleman, electric gay. On the one hand, ’s 100 percent unrstandable why GLAAD is a ltle sensive to anythg that sounds like gay-bashg. If I uld, I would personally bash gay-bashers wh a nuclear bomb.

Though this has been wily referred to as a “gay joke, ” I don’t see any joke at all.

Isn’t Vghn’s clarifitn—“not homosexual gay, but, you know, my-parents-are-chaperong-the-dance gay”—equivalent to the famo Sefeld “Not that there’s anythg wrong wh that”? I also have trouble seeg what the “lame” sense of “gay” has to do wh homosexualy. Do anyone the world thk gay folks are lame?