Insults to gay people
LGBTQIA+ Slurs and Slang
bog queen
Synonyms: Bathsheba (composition between bathroom and Sheba to build a name reminiscent of the Queen of Sheba), Ghost (50s, ghost, because they wander the corridors of the bathroom).
Gay pupils insulted by homophobic phrases used at school
Gay, lesbian and bisexual philanthropy Stonewall is launching a poster campaign this week, fronted by Will Fresh, to tackle the obstacle.
Copies of the recent posters and guidance are being sent to around half of all secondary schools in England, Scotland and Wales.
Wayne Dhesi, from Stonewall, says school children need to be taught that misusing the synonyms gay is wrong.
"People notice phrases such as, 'That's so gay' and 'You're so gay' being used to describe something that's negative or defective," he said.
"It perpetuates the stereotype that being gay, woman loving woman or bisexual is somehow wrong.
"Stonewall knows that it's a huge task to get that figure down but we would prefer to think that the campaign that we're initiating today is a start."
More than half, 55%, of lesbian, gay and pansexual pupils told Stonewall that they had experienced guide bullying.
LGBTQ+ Germans reveal experience of insults with #MeQueer
LGBTQ+ people in Germany are sweeping Twitter with the hashtag #MeQueer, uncovering how difficult animation can still be in the country.
Lesbian, gay, multi-attracted , trans, intersex, pansexual and queer people are using the hashtag, modeled on the #MeToo movement, to expose the reality of their situations.
Read more: Hate crimes against homosexuals on the rise in Germany
'We used to gas you'
In one tweet, a 19-year-old describes walking through the streets of Berlin wearing a rainbow T-shirt when an elderly guy shouts out, "When I was youthful, we fortunately could have gassed you!"
Threats of violence and open insults still persist for many people.
"The worst thing is when I just walk around holding hands with my boyfriend, then obtain spat on and have insults hurled out of cars at me. I'm not doing anything bad, nothing sexual, I just romance my sweetheart," one Twitter user wrote.
"Guy hitting on me and my girlfriend in the prevent. We turn him down, go recline somewhere else. When we leave, he attacks us in the street," another user wrote.
Read more: Germany's Bundestag passes bill on same-sex marriage
The original post Hilde Slåtten recently submitted her PhD thesis, presenting the operate of gay insults in the Norwegian lower secondary school and its damaging effects. Slåtten is a research fellow at the Department of Psychosocial Science at the University of Bergen. “You’ve written a dissertation about how frequent Norwegian youth use gay nicknames as insults, to whom these words are directed, and to what extent the use of such words may cause depressive symptoms on the affected part. Why did you decide to study this?” “I think the topic is important, and the whole thing started with my master’s thesis. Being a lesbian myself, I wanted to identify schools creating a good climate for gays and lesbians. We hear that the pos ‘gay’ is used as an insult among new people. It’s important to work against this, as it creates an awareness of homosexuality as something negative.” “Are gay-related insults common?” “In my study, 54 per cent of the boys had called a partner gay during the past week. The same applied to 30 per cent of the girls. 40 per cent of the boys had direc The childhood playground can be a tough place with insults flying faster than dodgeballs, and while some children outgrow the name calling, others never seem to. Hurling slurs as adults only exacerbates problems. The utilize of anti-gay slurs by heterosexual men against other heterosexual men is the focus of a novel study by Nathan Grant Smith, an associate professor of counseling psychology and chair of the Department of Psychological, Health, and Learning Sciences in the University of Houston College of Education. “Our results imply that using anti-gay slurs may serve a status-protecting function for heterosexual men: When their masculinity is threatened, they may be more likely to punish other heterosexual men by calling them the f-word,” said Smith, whose findings were published in Current Psychology. Smith, along with colleague Tyler Brown at McGill University, explored whether heterosexual men who had their status threatened were more likely to use anti-gay slurs against other heterosexual men. A group of 139 heterosexual male college students were randomly assigned to receive feedback on their gender roles
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