Brown and Gay LA

Contents:

• BROWN AND GAY LA
• SEND HUNTER BIN IRS WHISTLEBLOWER INTIFIED AS GAY DEMOCRAT
• COMMUNY CONNECTEDNS, CHALLENG, AND RILIENCE AMONG GAY LATO IMMIGRANTS

BROWN AND GAY LA

While some experienc may feel universal—and th, timels—the queer polics of today are obvly very different om the 1970s and '80s, when the gay liberatn movement was full swg and clarg onelf a lbian was extremely polil, every sense of the word. And while Gen Z is more likely to intify as LGBTQ+ than any generatn prr, 's also more likely to prefer the term 'queer' as opposed to a word wh seemgly narrower nnotatns, like gay or lbian. There's a longstandg spicn that gay parents beget gay children, as well as the belief that havg gay parents is the ultimate utopia, at least pared to a more stereotypil upbrgg a cishet hoehold.

"Folks would always say, 'Oh, that's so ol that you have gay parents, mt be so easy for you as a gay person'—and a way, is, but 's also really beltlg of my experience, " Faria says. Though his father died five years ago, he still has his mother, and his other Cheb, a mic librarian who liv the East Village, is the gay son of a lbian who liv wh her pann, and he belongs to an unual -- and, for some, unsettlg -- kd of fay.

SEND HUNTER BIN IRS WHISTLEBLOWER INTIFIED AS GAY DEMOCRAT

But there are also those who me out to seemgly heterosexual parents, only to have those parents later acknowledge their own homosexualy. Sometim they are swept to the polil and scientific bate over whether homosexuals are born or ma, and whether parents fluence their children's sexual on the polil and relig right claim that homosexualy is a choice, that n be tght or reversed and that do not warrant legal protectns. '' In Florida and New Hampshire, is illegal for gay people to adopt gay rights advot have argued for years that homosexualy is geic and unalterable, like race or ethnicy, and that gay people serve legal protectn agast the discrimatn that many face.

They pot out that numero studi, journals like Child Development and The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, have found that children reared by gay parents are no more likely to be gay than those brought up by heterosexual parents, and no more likely to have psychologil those who draw attentn to the fact that both they and at least one of their parents are homosexual n make some other gay people Cheb, who found a group lled Send Generatn 1991, said that when he approached other gay anizatns for support, most were receptive but some ''were iffy. ''But April Mart, 49, a lbian mother who is a psychotherapist Manhattan and the thor of ''The Lbian and Gay Parentg Handbook: Creatg and Raisg Our Fai'' (Harper Perennial, 1993), said that among the many fai wh gay parents she knows, ''nobody's worried.

COMMUNY CONNECTEDNS, CHALLENG, AND RILIENCE AMONG GAY LATO IMMIGRANTS

' ''Terry Boggis, director of Center Kids, the fay program of the Lbian and Gay Communy Servic Center the Wt Village, said: ''I hear gay people say, 'Why would I want my children to be gay?

''Wayne Steman, 48, the former print of the Gay and Lbian Parents Coaln Internatnal, said ''society has imposed on the gay muny a sense of homophobia, that somehow we'll make our children gay. ''If gay parents have reason to fear that their abily to rear children might be qutned, some of om groups like the Fay Rearch Council, a natnal anizatn based Washgton. Knight 1995, the Amerin Psychologil Associatn published a report on gay parents, which was prepared by psychologists who specialized fai, youth and gay men and lbians.

Patterson, a profsor of psychology at the Universy of Virgia, who did the summary for the report, poted out that though rearch on the subject was ''very new and relatively srce'' and had limatns, there was no evince that homosexuals ''are unf to be parents or that psychosocial velopment among children of gay men or lbians is promised any rpect.