{"id":299,"date":"2006-04-26T07:56:40","date_gmt":"2006-04-26T07:56:40","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-04-26T07:56:40","modified_gmt":"2006-04-26T07:56:40","slug":"gay-not-homosexual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=299","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Gay&#8221; not &#8220;homosexual&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Lord Chancellor has banned the word &#8220;homosexual&#8221; from official documents in his department. Lord Falconer has ordered for the word to be removed on the grounds that it &#8220;may be considered offensive&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>Apparently the pressure group Stonewall regards the word as derogatory, &#8220;It originates from a medical definition when same-sex attraction was construed as mental illness.&#8217; The report said &#8220;it should no longer be used in official documentation. Stonewall recommends that &#8216;lesbian, gay and bisexual&#8217; is a more appropriate term.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>News report <a href=\"<http:\/\/www.pinknews.co.uk\/news\/articles\/2005-1249.html> &#8220;>here<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lord Chancellor has banned the word &#8220;homosexual&#8221; from official documents in his department. Lord Falconer has ordered for the word to be removed on the grounds that it &#8220;may be considered offensive&#8221;. Apparently the pressure group Stonewall regards the word as derogatory, &#8220;It originates from a medical definition when same-sex attraction was construed as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}