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Contents:

• WHAT IS THIS "GOLD STAR GAY" STAT THAT ANDY COHEN REFERRED TO?
• WHY DO GAYS LOVE THE GOLN GIRLS?
• THE ‘GOLN GAYS’ RETURN TO THE STAGE THE PHILIPP
• TOP 13 COUNTRI WH BIGGT GAY POPULATNS

WHAT IS THIS "GOLD STAR GAY" STAT THAT ANDY COHEN REFERRED TO?

Lance Bass, on the other hand, is not a GSG, admtg on WWHL that he had been wh women before he me out as gay. He said that he’s gay, and he’s never been wh a woman, so he’s not jt gay — he’s gold-star gay, " Masi told Personal Space.

"Someone like Lance Bass, who is also gay, but who has had sex wh women, would not be scribed as gold star gay bee he hasn’t been wh only men. Andy has talked about almost losg his "gold-star gay" stat when he nsired participatg a threome, where one of the three was a woman. "This is for a gay man who has never been wh a woman, and was never born a vagal birth, but was stead, a C-sectn baby.

Girls star Andrew Rannells has said he is “pure-bred” gay, which means he knew he was gay om practilly the mute he was born. Or, you uld have a straightforward history as a heterosexual person, who is not havg a history as a gay person, and that means you ed to be heterosexual, but now, you’re gay, " Masi said. The term gay is equently ed as a synonym for homosexual; female homosexualy is often referred to as different tim and different cultur, homosexual behavur has been varly approved of, tolerated, punished, and banned.

WHY DO GAYS LOVE THE GOLN GIRLS?

Homosexualy was not unmon ancient Greece and Rome, and the relatnships between adult and adolcent mal particular have bee a chief foc of Wtern classicists recent years. Others—om factns wh mastream Prottantism to anizatns of Reform rabbis—have advoted, on theologil as well as social grounds, the full acceptance of homosexuals and their relatnships. Morn velopments Attus toward homosexualy are generally flux, partially as a rult of creased polil activism (see gay rights movement) and efforts by homosexuals to be seen not as aberrant personali but as differg om “normal” dividuals only their sexual orientatn.

The nflictg views of homosexualy—as a variant but normal human sexual behavur on one hand, and as psychologilly viant behavur on the other—rema prent most societi the 21st century, but they have been largely rolved ( the profsnal sense) most veloped untri.

The Amerin Psychiatric Associatn, for example, classified “ego-syntonic homosexualy” (the ndn of a person ntent wh his or her homosexualy) as a mental illns 1973. Nohels, some relig groups ntue to emphasize reparative therapy the attempt to “cure” homosexualy through prayer, unselg, and behavur modifitn.

THE ‘GOLN GAYS’ RETURN TO THE STAGE THE PHILIPP

Selected theori of homosexualy Psychologists the 19th and 20th centuri, most of whom classified homosexualy as a form of mental illns, veloped a variety of theori on s orig. It is likely that many stanc of homosexualy rult om a batn of born or nstutnal factors and environmental or social fluenc.

Together wh a growg acceptance of homosexualy as a mon exprsn of human sexualy, long-standg beliefs about homosexuals had begun to lose crence. The stereotyp of male homosexuals as weak and effemate and lbians as mascule and aggrsive, which were wispread the Wt as recently as the 1950s and early ’60s, have largely been disrd.

TOP 13 COUNTRI WH BIGGT GAY POPULATNS

) Rearchers such as Aled Ksey reported that homosexual activy was a equent pattern adolcence, among both mal and femal. The Ksey report of 1948, for example, found that 30 percent of adult Amerin mal among Ksey’s subjects had engaged some homosexual activy and that 10 percent reported that their sexual practice had been exclively homosexual for a perd of at least three years between the ag of 16 and 55. A range of more recent surveys, ncerng predomantly homosexual behavur as well as same-genr sexual ntact adulthood, have yield rults that are both higher and lower than those intified by Ksey.