Is It OK to Say "Gay"? - GOOD

Contents:

• WHY "GAY" ISN'T A BAD WORD FOR CHILDREN
• THE 'GAY' WORD: WHAT DO MEAN WHEN YOUNG PEOPLE E NEGATIVELY?
• IS IT OK TO SAY "THAT'S SO GAY"?
• WHAT DO YOU SAY TO ‘THAT’S SO GAY’ & OTHER ANTI-LGBTQ+ COMMENTS?
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• IS BEG GAY A GOOD OR BAD THG?
• PK GUY - GAY IS A BAD WORD LYRICS

WHY "GAY" ISN'T A BAD WORD FOR CHILDREN

\n Explorg the different meangs of a ntroversial word “gay” is everywhere you look the days. Gay activists support gay rights such as gay marriage, while gay-bashers prott all thgs gay, cludg the gayby boom.

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. 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.

THE 'GAY' WORD: WHAT DO MEAN WHEN YOUNG PEOPLE E NEGATIVELY?

” 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.

IS IT OK TO SAY "THAT'S SO GAY"?

“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: “...

WHAT DO YOU SAY TO ‘THAT’S SO GAY’ & OTHER ANTI-LGBTQ+ COMMENTS?

Charl Victor Fremy was sometim very, very gay. ” As far as we n tell, “gay” only started meang homosexual the early 1940s. They were together then and traveled to another place and stayed there and were gay there...

Not very gay there, jt gay there. They were both gay there. ” 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.

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” Meanwhile, exampl of “gay” meang “lame” don't turn up until the 1970s. ’ ‘It looks gay.

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.

IS BEG GAY A GOOD OR BAD THG?

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?

PK GUY - GAY IS A BAD WORD LYRICS

As I unrstand the homophobic viewpot, gay people are nsired sners and evil-doers—a lot worse than lame, right? If the llective gay people of the world uld magilly transform all “gays are abomatns” sentiment to “gays are like, totally lame, ” I have a feelg they would take that barga, bee nobody bothers to legally discrimate agast the lame.

Maybe gay people n miserate wh the physilly lame, who lost the battle over that word years ago.

The dislike of “gay” is an awful lot like the dislike of “retard”—both words, when ed sultgly, are hated for reasons that are very passnate. Siarly, wh so much real, horrible homophobia the world, tryg to censor the “lame” sense of gay is a waste of energy and a losg battle.