Contents:
- IF THEY 'SAY GAY,' WILL MY CHILD BE SAFE? PARENTS OF LGBTQ KIDS ARE SRED OF PYT LAWS
- IS MY CHILD TOO YOUNG TO LEARN ABOUT BEG GAY? | TIM RAMSEY | TEDXOXFORD
- AS 'DON'T SAY GAY' AND SIAR BILLS TAKE HOLD, LGBTQ YOUTHS FEEL THEY'RE 'GETTG CSHED'
- 'WE'RE NOT HIDG': GAY AND LBIAN RSIANS SAY A CULTURAL SHIFT IS UNRWAY
IF THEY 'SAY GAY,' WILL MY CHILD BE SAFE? PARENTS OF LGBTQ KIDS ARE SRED OF PYT LAWS
If someone is here jt to troll or post some bigoted, homophobic, or transphobic nonsense, then they will be removed. ANY lotn discsn is forbidn for safety reasons, this clus events/quirg about areas around the world (Do not mentn your state/cy/untry/regn EVER, if s need for ntext stead change your wordg to "I live an extremely homophobic area" stead of for example "I live Rsia", but no more specific than that which giv ntext to your suatn whout intifyg your lotn even generally).
r/gay. No homophobia.
IS MY CHILD TOO YOUNG TO LEARN ABOUT BEG GAY? | TIM RAMSEY | TEDXOXFORD
homophobia of any sort is forbidn here and wold rult an INSTANT and PERM ban (and upset our lbian top mod). Acrdg to the GLSEN (Gay, Lbian, Straight Edutn work).
90% of LGBT stunts hear homophobic and transphobic ments school. Would that be an sane cisn for me as a gay man?
I keep to myself and normally don’t tell people I’m gay and I don’t nsir beg gay a huge part of my inty, but I do have a partner and I’m sure people would figure out, pecially if we have a fay by then. She tried to be straight, gay and pansexual — someone attracted all genrs, cludg people who are not women or men. In March 2022, DeSantis signed a bill that crics ll the “Don’t Say Gay” law, banng stctn on sexual and genr inty om krgarten to third “barely” noticed the cisn.
AS 'DON'T SAY GAY' AND SIAR BILLS TAKE HOLD, LGBTQ YOUTHS FEEL THEY'RE 'GETTG CSHED'
In June, McCarthy was honored as an Ally In durg Wt Hollywood’s Gay Pri celebratn. She ro down Santa Moni Boulevard a BMW, wearg a glterg rabow-lored outf and sportg a “thought bubble”-style headpiece emblazoned wh the words “Say Gay” — a reference to a law signed by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis that bars public schoolteachers om talkg about sexual orientatn or genr inty wh stunts om krgarten through gra 3. Opponents have lled the “Don’t Say Gay” bill.
And was a stark and paful remr that the feelgs Alrn experienced are mon among lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr teens, who face harassment, discrimatn and a sense of beg different addn to the normal prsur of teenage life.
Ernment learship to forbid licensed clicians om practicg nversn therapy -- a range of mental health practic that seek to change the sexual orientatn or genr inti of gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr people -- on mors.
'WE'RE NOT HIDG': GAY AND LBIAN RSIANS SAY A CULTURAL SHIFT IS UNRWAY
Psychoanalytic and theraptic treatments for sexual orientatn fell out of favor the medil muny after the 1960s, but have ntued to receive support om some relig anizatns and practners that see what they ll "unwanted homosexualy" as a ndn that n be cured or petn, dubbed “Leelah’s law, ” gathered more than 100, 000 signatur by April.
In New Jersey, the Southern Poverty Law Center filed a lawsu November 2012 agast a gay nversn therapy referral service, lled Jews Offerg New Alternativ for Healg, on behalf of four men who say therapists affiliated wh the service subjected them to huiatg treatments. The judge the se led Febary that advertisg homosexualy as a curable mental disorr would vlate the state’s Consumer Frd ght history of nversn therapyThe battle over nversn therapy revolv around the nature of homosexualy, what exactly nversn therapy nsists of, and whether is harmful or ercive when practiced on Amerin Psychiatric Associatn classified homosexualy as a disorr 1973, and echog the broad nsens, the Amerin Psychologil Associatn clearly says that "both heterosexual behavr and homosexual behavr are normal aspects of human sexualy.
”"The bottom le om a scientific perspective, om our perspective, there is no scientific evince to support such therapi, that they work or that they’re safe, " says Clton Anrson, the director of the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr Concerns Office of the Amerin Psychologil while fell out of favor wh the broar mental health muny, nversn therapy began to rurface elsewhere the late 1980s, part due to support by nservative relig anizatns such as Foc on the Jack Drcher, a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who is a leadg voice agast nversn therapy, scribed s rise as a backlash to the gay rights movement, part of the polics and culture wars that acpanied the ph for expand gay rights and gay marriage. "Any time a mtee, " Drcher said, "was nsirg passg a gay rights law, the heargs would clu ttimony om so-lled ex-gays sayg, 'I ed to be gay, I’m not anymore. You shouldn’t be givg gay people rights, bee they’re not like black people.