Other than the three monly ed terms - lbian, gay, and bisexual, people tend to be unclear of other inti or their fns. But sce ignorance isn’t bliss, 's time we unrstand and start talkg about all sexual orientatns.
Contents:
- A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
- THE U.S. & JAMAI ARE FIGHTG OVER GAY RIGHTS
- REARCHERS FD DISPARI SUICI RISK AMONG LBIAN, GAY, AND BISEXUAL ADULTS
- TENSNS BETWEEN TRANS WOMEN AND GAY MEN BOIL OVER AT STONEWALL ANNIVERSARY
A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
* gay vs cis *
This is long but thoughtful piece by Ben Appel that hs home on several pots about gay people and what’s happeng now. For years, I feared homophobic right-wg evangelils. But the days, I’m equally wary of the progrsive activists who ph a distctly homophobic agenda that ni the blogil realy of sex—and who claim that what we are attracted to isn’t male or female bodi per se, but rather male or female genr inti.
This outlook effectively imag away the existence of homosexualy, which, the real world, is of urse rooted physil attractn based on blogil ias also serve to stct genr-nonnformg children (as I once was) that their uniquens dit they may have been born si the “wrong body, ” and so will likely have to m to a lifetime of medilizatn if they want to be happy.
But ’s also an implic slur, often directed at gay men wh tradnally mascule—th, “assiatnist, ” toxic, and regrsive—tras.
THE U.S. & JAMAI ARE FIGHTG OVER GAY RIGHTS
The crease the number of visible gay and trans people is sometim treated as a cursy or a e for ncern by crics, but ’s not a surprise. It’s normal. * gay vs cis *
… Sce that time, I’ve noticed that enmy toward “cis” gay men (which often seems a lot like straight up homophobia) has begun to permeate LGBT publitns and social media, whout any sort of nsequenc. …This attu … offers one explanatn for the sharp uptick the number of gay men and women who now intify unr the umbrella of “trans/nonbary.
” As I’ve told iends over the last few years, were I to dye my hair purple, start patg my nails and wearg eyeler, and change my pronouns, I would experience ls anti-gay hostily the “queer” muny, sce I would have visibly rejected “cis-heteronormativy. You hear this a lot the days om “cis gay men.
In the Quillette ments, “Beowulf_Obsidian” shared: Ls than a year after homosexual marriage was legalized, gay iends of me openly lamented how they fell om their super hero stat to beg part of the nmned ‘normative’ crowd.
REARCHERS FD DISPARI SUICI RISK AMONG LBIAN, GAY, AND BISEXUAL ADULTS
Tensns are risg after Jamai refed to accred the spoe of a gay Amerin diplomat. * gay vs cis *
They weren’t celebrated for beg gay, they were blasted for not wantg to have sex or date heterobodied trans.
TENSNS BETWEEN TRANS WOMEN AND GAY MEN BOIL OVER AT STONEWALL ANNIVERSARY
A transgenr man had female genals at birth but intifi as who are straight, gay, lbian, bisexual, or asexual and still intify themselv as the sex assigned to them at birth are everyone's sex at birth l up wh their genr inty. Gay or lbian means your attractn is to someone of the same sex. Gay men like other men.
For stance, a transgenr person n be straight or gay. Lbian, gay, and bisexual – Unrstandg the different sexual inti.
Other than the three monly ed terms – lbian, gay, and bisexual, people tend to be unclear of other inti or their fns.