The gay world is often reprented as some sort of monolhic whole that has the same culture. That is a lie. It is actually broken down to a handful of substrata to which each gay belongs. Here they are.
Contents:
- CHICKENS AND OTTERS AND BEARS, OH MY! SIX TYP OF GAY YOU SHOULD PROBABLY KNOW BEFORE YOU TWEET
- WHAT IS AN OTTER IN GAY CULTURE
- A HANDY GUI TO ALL GAY MEN
CHICKENS AND OTTERS AND BEARS, OH MY! SIX TYP OF GAY YOU SHOULD PROBABLY KNOW BEFORE YOU TWEET
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WHAT IS AN OTTER IN GAY CULTURE
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Bicur: An dividual who typilly intifi as gay or straight while showg some cursy for a relatnship or sexual activy wh a person of the genr they do not favor. Fluid: A sexual or genr inty that exists beyond a bary system of eher gay or straight, man or woman. Gay: At tim, “gay” is ed to refer to all people, regardls of sex, who have their primary sexual and or romantic attractns to people of the same sex.
The term n also exclively refer to men who are emotnally, romantilly, sexually, affectnately, or relatnally attracted to other men, or who intify as members of the gay muny. Heteronormativy: The assumptn, dividuals or stutns, that everyone is heterosexual, or that heterosexualy is superr to homosexualy and bisexualy. Also, the benefs that lbians, gay men and bisexuals receive as a rult of claimg a heterosexual inty and nyg a lbian, gay or bisexual inty.
A HANDY GUI TO ALL GAY MEN
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Homoflexible: A person who is mostly attracted to the same sex/genr, but n, on ocsn be attracted to the oppose sex/genr. Homophobia: Fear of, hatred of, or disfort wh people who love and sexually sire members of the same sex. Homophobic reactns often lead to tolerance, bigotry and vlence agast anyone not actg wh soc-cultural norms of heterosexualy.
Bee most LGBTQ people are raised the same society as heterosexuals, they learn the same beliefs and stereotyp prevalent the domant society, leadg to a phenomenon known as ternalized homophobia, whereas LGBTQ-intified dividuals feel shame, guilt or hatred towards the part of themselv intified as LGBTQ. Homosexual: The clil term, ed the field of psychology, for people wh a same-sex sexual attractn.
Internalized Homophobia: The fear and self-hate of one’s own homosexualy or bisexualy dividuals who have learned negative ias about homosexualy throughout childhood.