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).
Boys more affected by lgbtq+ insults
Hilde Slåtten recently submitted her PhD thesis, presenting the use of gay insults in the Norwegian lower secondary institution 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 homosexual nicknames as insults, to whom these words are directed, and to what extent the operate of such words may produce depressive symptoms on the affected part. Why did you opt to study this?”
“I think the topic is important, and the whole thing started with my master’s thesis. Being a queer woman myself, I wanted to distinguish schools creating a good climate for gays and lesbians. We hear that the word ‘gay’ is used as an insult among young people. It’s vital to work against this, as it creates an understanding of homosexuality as something negative.”
“Are gay-related insults common?”
“In my study, 54 per cent of the boys had called a friend queer during the past week. The same applied to 30 per cent of the girls. 40 per cent of the bo
As LGBTQ+ charity Stonewall states, homophobia is the legal title used to describe prejudice or negative attitudes, views or views about queer people. This can contain the fear or hate of someone because they are, or are perceived, to be gay.
Homophobic, biphobic and transphobic bullying is when a young person’s actual or perceived sexual orientation/transgender identity is used to exclude, threaten, impair, or humiliate them. Although Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia are similar, they’re not the same thing. Both gay and straight people can be transphobic and biphobic, and people can be transphobic without entity homophobic or biphobic.
How are people homophobic?
People can be homophobic in many diverse ways. Homophobia can accept the form of insults, harassment and even aggression. Such discrimination can transpire verbally, in writing, in person or virtually. This bullying is born out of ignorance, irrational anxiety and immaturity.
Everyday Homophobia
Many phrases and words may appear as harmless but can also be homophobic. Phrases you might overhear used ‘jokingly’ such as something – an activity, an item or a person being described as ‘gay’ as if it is a negative, favor
Anti-Gay Slurs Not Targeted Just at Lgbtq+ Men
The childhood playground can be a tough place with insults flying faster than dodgeballs, and while some children outgrow the name calling, others never sound to. Hurling slurs as adults only exacerbates problems. The use of anti-gay slurs by heterosexual men against other heterosexual men is the focus of a new learn 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 suggest 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 exploit anti-gay slurs against other heterosexual men. A group of 139 heterosexual male college students were randomly assigned to receive feedback on thei