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Contents:

• WHAT IS LIKE GROWG UP GAY?
• EXPLAG IT TO YOUR KIDS: WHAT DO 'BEG GAY' MEAN?
• WHEN DO GAY KIDS START “ACTG GAY”?
• JAGUARS’ KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY US MEN’S PRO SPORTS
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS KEV MAXEN BE FIRST PROFSNAL MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• WHAT'S LIFE LIKE FOR GAY KIDS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS?
• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

WHAT IS LIKE GROWG UP GAY?

A tailed look at how gay boys growg has changed over by Heartstopper’s Netflix serieSo seems the last weeks a new seri is the latt Buzzword: Heartstopper. My boyiend believ — and firmly stat — that the seri has bee viral thanks to TikTok, but as you might already gus… he is not que a reliable lerally everyone I knew was watchg and after havg read ton of tweets and posts, I cid to give a shot and watch … the tle is que accurate… the seri do stop your heart — at ’s try to remember together how was my — our — childhood as a gay boy and how there actually is another way to grow ’s be hont, I didn’t have a personal and romantilly-wise nice childhood. I was raised a nice environment, wh supportive parents, really really nice iends — I still keep many of, at the time beg gay was jt… too by Gay, I mean the habual term that was ed to sult.

Therefore, I mt say that I would probably fer - or at least do everythg I uld to fer - a discsn of homosexualy and gay behavr wh a child 10 years old and unr. But I also regnize that younger and younger children are beg exposed to homosexual persons, them, and issu and are naturally nfed and cur about . Whether om school, by social and public teractns, or through televisn and movi, homosexualy is beg thst upon and is challengg a heterosexual world.

EXPLAG IT TO YOUR KIDS: WHAT DO 'BEG GAY' MEAN?

" answer: "Beg gay means that two people of the same sex have chosen to love each other the way that God planned for a man and woman to love each other.

Many of the straight parents I terviewed for When Your Child Is Gay: What You Need To Know exprsed havg felt disappotment learng that their child was LGBT. Richard told me, "Perhaps if every parent toyed wh the possibily that any of their children uld be gay, would change the way they raise their children. "It is rare to work wh parents of a gay child who have not stggled wh the feelg of loss at some pot the procs of acceptg their child as gay, " my -thor, Jonathan Tobk, M.

" Yet Tobk has found that "gay people tell you they are happy wh who they are and feel that they have emerged on the other si of g out as strong, sensive, and rilient dividuals. The rrelatn is much weaker the other directn: A disproportnate number of boys who don’t nform to genr stereotyp turn out to be gay men, but lots of gay men played wh G.

WHEN DO GAY KIDS START “ACTG GAY”?

Gay 3-year-old boys n’t verbalize their sire to be wh a man when they grow up—although many such children exhib cshlike behavr toward adult men—but they may be tryg to learn the behavr that will later attract a male partner. My olst son is gay, and the ia of havg other gay kids his classroom for the first time (there were no other out gay kids his elementary school) was what ma him really look forward to middle school. My son said he would stand outsi the door while she was si and wa until she was done, and then they uld fd their class that was pleted, they ntued through the halls and she asked him how his parents felt about him beg gay.

JAGUARS’ KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY US MEN’S PRO SPORTS

Jacksonville Jaguars associate strength ach Kev Maxen is believed to be the first openly gay male ach major North Amerin men's sports after g out publicly an terview wh Outsports. " San Francis 49ers assistant Katie Sowers, a pneer among female ach the NFL, me out as the the league's first openly gay ach 2017, acrdg to Outsports.

He add that he reached out last year for advice on g out om former Las Vegas Rairs lebacker Carl Nassib, who beme the first active openly gay player NFL history 2021. HOMOSEXUAL OUTLET[A] CONSIDERABLE PORTION OF THE populatn, perhaps the major portn of the male populatn, has at least some homosexual experience between adolcence and old age.

In addn, about 60 per cent of the pre-adolcent boys engage homosexual activi, and there is an addnal group of adult mal who avoid overt ntacts but who are que aware of their potentiali for reactg to other social signifince of the homosexual is nsirably emphasized by the fact that both Jewish and Christian church have nsired this aspect of human sexualy to be abnormal and immoral. Is, therefore, peculiarly difficult to secure factual data ncerng the nature and the extent of the homosexual Wtern European or Amerin cultur, and even more difficult to fd strictly objective prentatns of such data as are available... The extent of any type of human behavr is aquately known, is difficult to asss s signifince, eher to the dividuals who are volved or to society as a whole; and until the extent of the homosexual is known, is practilly impossible to unrstand s blogic or social origs.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS KEV MAXEN BE FIRST PROFSNAL MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

DEFINITIONFor nearly a century the term homosexual nnectn wh human behavr has been applied to sexual relatns, eher overt or psychic, between dividuals of the same sex. Derived om the Greek root homo rather than om the Lat word for man, the term emphasiz the samens of the two dividuals who are volved a sexual relatn.

E to believe that homosexual mal and femal are discretely different om persons who merely have homosexual experience, or who react sometim to homosexual stimuli.

WHAT'S LIFE LIKE FOR GAY KIDS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS?

Sometim such an terpretatn allows for only two kds of mal and two kds of femal, namely those who are heterosexual and those who are homosexual. Will show, there is only about half of the male populatn whose sexual behavr is exclively heterosexual, and there are a few percent who are exclively homosexual. Any rtrictn of the term homosexualy to dividuals who are exclively so mands, logilly, that the term heterosexual be applied only to those dividuals who are exclively heterosexual; and this mak no allowance for the nearly half of the populatn which has had sexual ntacts wh, or reacted psychilly to, dividuals of their own as well as of the oppose sex.

Actually, of urse, one mt learn to regnize every batn of heterosexualy and homosexualy the histori of var would enurage clearer thkg on the matters if persons were not characterized as heterosexual or homosexual, but as dividuals who have had certa amounts of heterosexual experience and certa amounts of homosexual experience. PREVIOUS ESTIMATES OF INCIDENCESatisfactory cince figur on the homosexual nnot be obtaed by any technique short of a refully planned populatn survey. INCIDENCE DATA IN PRESENT STUDYThe statistics given throughout this volume on the cince of homosexual activy, and the statistics to be given the prent sectn of this chapter, are based on those persons who have had physil ntacts wh other mal, and who were brought to asm as a rult of such ntacts.

A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

By any strict fn such ntacts are homosexual, irrpective of the extent of the psychic stimulatn volved, of the techniqu employed, or of the relative importance of the homosexual and the heterosexual the history of such an dividual.

The are not data on the number of persons who are “homosexual, ” but on the number of persons who have had at least some homosexual experience... The terms (of physil ntact to the pot of asm), the data the prent study dite that at least 37 percent of the male populatn has some homosexual experience between the begng of adolcence and old age.

Among the mal who rema unmarried until the age of 35, almost exactly 50 per cent have homosexual experience between the begng of adolcence and that age.... Whether the histori were taken one large cy or another, whether they were taken large ci, small towns, or ral areas, whether they me om one llege or om another, a church school or a state universy or some private stutn, whether they me om one part of the untry or om another, the cince data on the homosexual have been more or ls the same...