{"id":1579577,"date":"2022-07-29T17:04:34","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T21:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1579577"},"modified":"2022-07-29T17:04:36","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T21:04:36","slug":"new-media-rule-dont-say-gay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-media-rule-dont-say-gay\/","title":{"rendered":"New Media Rule: Don\u2019t Say Gay"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-media-rule-dont-say-gay%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1579577&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Mainstream journalists have adopted what critics are calling a &#8220;don&#8217;t say gay&#8221; approach to covering the monkeypox outbreak in the United States. The media&#8217;s coverage of monkeypox, which officials in New York and California have declared a threat to public health amid rising case numbers, has studiously avoided using the word &#8220;gay&#8221; when discussing the individuals who are most at risk of contracting the viral disease.<\/p>\n<p>Journalists insist on using the phrase &#8220;men who have sex with men&#8221;\u2014decades-old terminology often used during the AIDS epidemic\u2014to explain the fact that gay and bisexual men comprise about 98 percent of more than 18,000 monkeypox cases worldwide. Some left-wing activists have <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/benryanwriter\/status\/1552316952709939206\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">argued<\/a> that even pointing this out is &#8220;stigmatizing,&#8221; while more sane individuals have <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jbarro\/status\/1552317255966507012\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">suggested<\/a> this is &#8220;particularly important information for gay men to know.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Some &#8220;don&#8217;t say gay&#8221; advocates want to go even further. Earlier this week,\u00a0New York City health commissioner Ashwin Vasan <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYCHealthCommr\/status\/1552030247691894785\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">called<\/a> on the World Health Organization to rename the monkeypox virus due to &#8220;a growing concern for the potentially stigmatizing effects that the messaging around the \u2018monkeypox&#8217; virus can have on vulnerable communities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear whether the media&#8217;s refusal to say &#8220;gay&#8221; is related to Florida&#8217;s Parental Rights in Education Law, known to mainstream journalists and other critics as the &#8220;don&#8217;t say gay&#8221; law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mainstream journalists have adopted what critics are calling a &#8220;don&#8217;t say gay&#8221; approach to covering the monkeypox outbreak in the United States. 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