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WHAT DO LIMP WRISTS HAVE TO DO WH GAY MEN?
After enuragg fathers to “punch” sons who exhib stereotypilly gay behavr, North Carola pastor Sean Harris said on Tuday that he should... * gay hand *
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ARE YOUR HANDS GAY?
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This had nothg to do wh homosexualy—the Romans didn’t nsir gay sex, per se, unmanly. In the 18th century, however, Europeans me to thk of homosexualy as a character tra rather than an ocsnal behavr, and gay sex beme the anthis of manls. Durg this time, limp wrists me to signify not jt ill disciple, but var other supposed failur of manhood, such as homosexualy, exhibnism, and foppery.
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) As the ornamentatn and leisure of urtly life fell out of favor wh men, a limp wrist—often wh the other hand placed on the hip an “I’m a Ltle Teapot” pose—me to symbolize the unmanly homosexual stereotype. Whatever s origs, the associatn of limp wrists wh male homosexualy was very well-tablished the Uned Stat by the begng of the 20th century. ” At some pot—certaly by the early 20th century, but maybe even earlier—gay men -opted stereotypil postur and hand gtur as a way to signal their sexual orientatn.
In a 1919 homosexualy trial New Hampshire, for example, the judge asked a wns how gay men intified each other. The wns said a gay man “acted sort of peculiar, walkg around wh his hands on his hips… the exprsn wh the ey and the gtur.
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In his ntroversial stctns on how to al wh gay-actg children, Pastor Sean Harris picked up on a recurrg theme popular culture: how to tra apparently gay men to assume stereotypilly heterosexual mannerisms.
No one n predict the future, but the Supreme Court — this very nservative Supreme Court — may have given Democrats a gift for moment the urt renred the fal three cisns of s term — on affirmative actn, stunt bt relief and relig rights over gay rights — my first thought was that not only helps Democrats, but also hurts Republins, at least the near, gave Democrats the opportuny to mpaign on three issu next year’s electn to galvanize voters much the way the Dobbs cisn overturng a natnal right to abortn rallied voters the 2022 three issu are central to the terts of three key mocratic votg blocs: mori, the LGBTQ muny and young people (who have nsistently been ls enthiastic about Print Joe Bin). This year’s grantg of relig exemptns to people who oppose gay marriage, as well as undog affirmative actn and revokg stunt bt relief, may produce a siar only issue Republins seem to have now is their latt a long le of bogeymen: anti-“woke” culture wars. "Iger, the CEO of one of Florida's largt employers, also fend Disney's right to speak out last year agast a ntroversial state bill that limed classroom discsn of LGBTQ+ issu, dubbed "Don't Say Gay" by move by then-CEO Bob Chapek, who succeed Iger 2020 and rigned 2022 when Iger returned to the helm, kicked off the bter fd wh the ernor and his Republin alli.
"The DeSantis mpaign rpond to Iger later Thursday by tweetg a vio clip of Disney executive Karey Burke speakg a 2022 pany-wi Zoom ll about LGBTQ reprentatn the pany's that clip scrib herself as a mother of two queer children and says, "We don't have enough leads and narrativ which gay characters jt get to be characters and not have to be about gay stori.