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Contents:
- THE 'GAY' WORD: WHAT DO MEAN WHEN YOUNG PEOPLE E NEGATIVELY?
- WHAT DO IT MEAN TO BE GAY? DEFN AND MEANG OF GAY
- GAY
- GAY (HOMOSEXUAL) AND GAY (HAPPY)
THE 'GAY' WORD: WHAT DO MEAN WHEN YOUNG PEOPLE E NEGATIVELY?
* young and gay meaning *
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. 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.
WHAT DO IT MEAN TO BE GAY? DEFN AND MEANG OF GAY
What is gay? is not an unmon qutn. The fn of gay is not simple eher. Learn more about the fn and meang of gay. * young and gay meaning *
When I was growg up, I noticed somethg about the word “gay”.
GAY
A word that origally meant happy and reee beme a ntral label to scribe homosexualy, and end up beg a term ed to ppot somethg people don’t like, fd embarrassg, or want to distance themselv do this mean that young people are more homophobic than ever before?
He says: “We fd schools have high levels of sual homophobic language, and high rat of homophobic bullyg.
GAY (HOMOSEXUAL) AND GAY (HAPPY)
” However Durham soclogist Mark McCormack argu the way the word “gay” is beg ed do not rry homophobic tent. “But ’s very hard for people who heard ‘gay’ as beg solely homophobic, like I did growg up, to see that n mean somethg different to a different generatn. “The problem wh sayg ‘that’s so gay’ is that even though you and your iends might know you’re not beg homophobic, if you’re g a public or semi-public space, other people might see you as homophobic, ” he jt my stunt overdraft as my budget, I cid to make a documentary explorg how this piece of language had evolved, and speak to people both gay and straight to see how they felt aboutthe word takg on a negative gay people I spoke to were ntent wh the word evolvg, while there were straight people who were outraged.