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Contents:

• THE HIDN GAY LIV FALLY BEG UNVERED
• THE PROS AND CONS OF LIVG A GAY LIFE THE 21ST CENTURY.NAVIGATG LOVE, LOSS, AND EVERYTHG BETWEEN — A ONE-STOP SHOP FOR THE UPS AND DOWNS OF BEG FABULOLY GAY MORN TIM.NATHAN CHEN·FOLLOW5 M READ·APR 28--SHAREPHOTO BY SHIL NASH ON UNSPLASHHEY THERE, YOU BETIFUL UNIRN! YOU’RE ABOUT TO EMBARK ON A JOURNEY THAT’S AS LORFUL AS YOUR FAVORE PRI FLAG. WE’RE GOG TO DISH THE DIRT ON LIVG THE GAY LIFE THE 21ST CENTURY — THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE OH-SO FABULO. SO BUCKLE UP, BUTTERCUP, BEE WE’RE ABOUT TO SPILL SOME SER TEA.PROS:
• OK SERLY, ’S TIME TO STOP SAYG ‘GAY LIFTYLE’
• WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?
• BEG GAY: A LIFE STYLE CHOICE?
• WHAT IS THE GAY LIFTYLE?
• DISVERG THE “GAY LIFTYLE” THROUGH 1970S MAGAZ
• THE BIG GAY LIE
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• CELEBRI WHO HAVE LEFT A GAY LIFTYLE
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR HEALTH
• THE INTER IS LOSG IT OVER TOM HOLLAND'S GAY SEX SCENE 'THE CROWD ROOM'
• KEV SPACEY DEFENDS COMG OUT AS GAY AFTER BEG ACCED OF SEXUAL MISNDUCT: ‘I WAS UNR A LOT OF PRSURE’
• WHO IS JOSEPH ZIEGLER, THE GAY IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HUNTER BIN PROBE?
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• WELE TO GAY IENDLY NORTHERN ARIZONA
• MYRTLE BEACH GAY TRAVEL
• HOW GAY CULTURE BLOSSOMED DURG THE ROARG TWENTI
• WHAT’S IT LIKE TO BE GAY … MOROC?
• IS ALLAN OM 'BARBIE' GAY? 5 REASONS TO THK HE MIGHT BE
• THIS “GAY LIFTYLE” BULLSH NEEDS TO STOP
• THE HEALTH RISKS OF GAY SEX

THE HIDN GAY LIV FALLY BEG UNVERED

For a long time, the mastream public didn't want to hear our Ca's The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle tells the story of a secretly gay postman searchg for a lost love om his youth (Cred: Headle Review)"I would venture to say that the public were disgted and outraged, " says thor Crystal Jeans.

It's about a lonely, socially awkward and secretly gay postman livg a fictnal town the north of England who hs retirement, realisg he wants to turn his life around and fally be happy – but to do this, he needs to fd the love of his life, a man he hasn’t seen for nearly 50 years. That same year, the so-lled "Alan Turg law" offered pardons to 49, 000 Brish gay men who’d been nvicted of homosexual acts – followg a mpaign arguably bolstered by the greater awarens brought about by The Imatn Game, the h film that picted the nvictn and chemil stratn of the Enigma-breakg puter scientist. Over the last five years, a tr of Irish wrers have livered stunng gay-themed novels set predomantly perds of history that didn't wele them – John Boyne (The Heart’s Invisible Furi), Graham Norton (Home Stretch), and Sebastian Barry (the Costa Award-wng Days Whout End).

THE PROS AND CONS OF LIVG A GAY LIFE THE 21ST CENTURY.NAVIGATG LOVE, LOSS, AND EVERYTHG BETWEEN — A ONE-STOP SHOP FOR THE UPS AND DOWNS OF BEG FABULOLY GAY MORN TIM.NATHAN CHEN·FOLLOW5 M READ·APR 28--SHAREPHOTO BY SHIL NASH ON UNSPLASHHEY THERE, YOU BETIFUL UNIRN! YOU’RE ABOUT TO EMBARK ON A JOURNEY THAT’S AS LORFUL AS YOUR FAVORE PRI FLAG. WE’RE GOG TO DISH THE DIRT ON LIVG THE GAY LIFE THE 21ST CENTURY — THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE OH-SO FABULO. SO BUCKLE UP, BUTTERCUP, BEE WE’RE ABOUT TO SPILL SOME SER TEA.PROS:

The term “homosexualy, ” while sometim nsired anachronistic the current era, is the most applible and easily translatable term to e when askg this qutn across societi and languag and has been ed other cross-natnal studi, cludg the World Valu Survey.

OK SERLY, ’S TIME TO STOP SAYG ‘GAY LIFTYLE’

And Poland, supporters of the erng PiS (Law and Jtice), which has explicly targeted gay rights as anathema to tradnal Polish valu, are 23 percentage pots ls likely to say that homosexualy should be accepted by society than those who do not support the erng party. Dpe the persistence of stereotyp that portray lbian, gay, and bisexual people as disturbed, several s of rearch and clil experience have led all mastream medil and mental health anizatns this untry to nclu that the orientatns reprent normal forms of human experience. Helpful rpons of a therapist treatg an dividual who is troubled about her or his same sex attractns clu helpg that person actively pe wh social prejudic agast homosexualy, succsfully rolve issu associated wh and rultg om ternal nflicts, and actively lead a happy and satisfyg life.

WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?

The phrase “g out” is ed to refer to several aspects of lbian, gay, and bisexual persons’ experienc: self-awarens of same-sex attractns; the tellg of one or a few people about the attractns; wispread disclosure of same-sex attractns; and intifitn wh the lbian, gay, and bisexual muny.

Lbian, gay, and bisexual youth who do well spe strs—like all adolcents who do well spe strs—tend to be those who are socially petent, who have good problem-solvg skills, who have a sense of tonomy and purpose, and who look forward to the future. If they are a heterosexual relatnship, their experienc may be que siar to those of people who intify as heterosexual unls they choose to e out as bisexual; that se, they will likely face some of the same prejudice and discrimatn that lbian and gay dividuals enunter.

BEG GAY: A LIFE STYLE CHOICE?

I mean, if people had the balls to adm what they really mean when they say thgs like “I n’t support the gay liftyle” or “Love the sner; hate the s, ” they’d e right out and say, “I don’t want to thk about some du stickg his dicktnary another du’s library. 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.

WHAT IS THE GAY LIFTYLE?

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. In rponse to their activism, many jurisdictns enacted laws banng discrimatn agast homosexuals, and an creasg number of employers Ameri and European untri agreed to offer “domtic partner” benefs siar to the health re, life surance and, some s, pensn benefs available to heterosexual married upl.

In one such stance, Albania repealed s sodomy statut 1995, and gay upl Amsterdam 2001 were legally married unr the same laws that ern heterosexual marriage (rather than unr laws that allowed them to “register” or form “domtic” partnerships). However, most shared wh gay men the sire to have a secure place the world muny at large, unchallenged by the fear of vlence, the stggle for equal treatment unr the law, the attempt to silence, and any other form of civil behavur that impos send-class article was most recently revised and updated by Alison Eldridge. “The turn toward liftyle, straight and gay, volved a turn toward nsumptn as a form of self-ventn, yet the gay liftyle media stcted s rearshp not only how to bee ‘themselv, ’ as the straight publitns, but also how to bee gay, ” Hilrbrand wr.

DISVERG THE “GAY LIFTYLE” THROUGH 1970S MAGAZ

Gay relatnships are nothg like straight on:The simple realy is that the gay liftyle nsists of sex wh many strangers and few if any long term, let alone monogamo, than 1% of gays report, to gay iendly rearchers, to havg sex wh fewer than 5 partners. Not only are the health, mental and physil, nsequenc of the gay liftyle ncealed but even the fact that gays are sex addicts is never ’s hardly surprisg given the prevalence of the BGL that support for gay “marriage” is as high as purely on science, gays are dysfunctnal sce om an evolutnary perspective the only purpose of life is to produce offsprg.

THE BIG GAY LIE

Bee our objectn to the gay liftyle is based on love mak perfect sense to simultaneoly nmn vlence agast gays, persecutn of gays, and hatred for gays wh efforts to enurage gays to not live the gay liberal rponse of enuragg the gay liftyle is like enuragg smokers to smoke, fat people to eat more, or people who want to amputate their limbs to go right ahead. If you tly love someone you don’t enable them to do thgs that are realy, #lovews should mean enuragg gays to avoid the gay liftyle not enablg them to live a liftyle that cuts s off their liv and volv the objectifitn of others as thgs to be ed rather than people to be loved. 'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough" said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'" Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3, 000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos" relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife.

As of January 2015, Jsie J had sold over 20 ln sgl and 3 ln albums statement when she was gay:She said a recent terview:If I meet someone and I like them, I don’t re if they’re a boy or a Chloe Govan had a stronger opn about Jsie’s lbianism:Jsie might have been wh boys the past — but she is 100 per cent gay.

Bob Dixon is nng for ernor and claims that childhood abe and teenage nfn ed him to engage gay relatnships or a few 's mpaign issued a statement toutg his fah God and support for tradnal marriage, while nmng any opponents who try to e his past agast him. [7]Her statement about not beg a gay liftyle any more:Anrson now intifi as heterosexual and an terview wh the Eveng Standard December 2014, she stated:I am an actively heterosexual woman who celebrat however people want to exprs their sexualy. Phil Show, The Coral Ridge Hour, The Abundant Life, Cope, His Place, Home Life, and has been the host of Covenant Award wng “Masterg Life” on the Foc on the Fay Rad he said about havg been gay:“Bee of my fear of mature women, I chose to see them as sexls ‘Snow Whe’ figur.

CELEBRI WHO HAVE LEFT A GAY LIFTYLE

After 10 years of active volvement the ‘anythg but gay’ homosexual liftyle, J Christ revealed Himself to me and has set me ee om what statistics show to be a ath-style la upon the foundatns of profound brokenns… inty has been pletely transformed and I see myself as the heterosexual male that God had always created me to be.

However, she went on to say that “I am one of the people who don’t really agree wh that liftyle, ” and “But I do have a lot of iends and a lot of people that I love arly who are gay and homosexual… should jt rpect each other’s differenc and opns and move on.

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LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR HEALTH

The report clud a photo of Joseph Ziegler and his hband, Newsweek not, pl the assertn that the hband was nnected “at least socially” to Demetre Daskalakis, a gay physician who has worked the New York Cy health partment and the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn, and later was appoted by Joe Bin as puty ordator of the rponse to the mpox outbreak. The Begngs of a New Gay World“In the late 19th century, there was an creasgly visible prence of genr-non-nformg men who were engaged sexual relatnships wh other men major Amerin ci, ” says Chad Heap, a profsor of Amerin Studi at Gee Washgton Universy and the thor of Slummg: Sexual and Racial Enunters Amerin Nightlife, 1885-1940.

”At the same time, lbian and gay characters were beg featured a slew of popular “pulp” novels, songs and on Broadway stag (cludg the ntroversial 1926 play The Captive) and Hollywood—at least prr to 1934, when the motn picture dtry began enforcg censorship guil, known as the Hays Co. ” By the post-World War II era, a larger cultural shift toward earlier marriage and suburban livg, the advent of TV and the anti-homosexualy csas champned by Joseph McCarthy would help ph the flowerg of gay culture reprented by the Pansy Craze firmly to the natn’s rear-view mirror. As the LGBTQ agenda has been ont and center durg Pri Month June, the Amerin Fay Associatn (AFA, ) is alertg parents about the ncerted effort to normalize homosexualy, same-sex marriage and the transgenr liftyle to the untry's youngt cizens.

THE INTER IS LOSG IT OVER TOM HOLLAND'S GAY SEX SCENE 'THE CROWD ROOM'

Ratburn, was gay and gettg partment stor are not only offerg clothg and accsori for both adults and children to celebrate the gay liftyle, but the pany has also pledged to donate $100, 000 to the Gay, Lbian Straight Edutn Network (GLSEN), an anizatn whose primary foc is stctg school-aged stunts about how to create "gay" clubs public schools across the natn. A gay character was seemgly shoe-horned to a scene the blockbter Marvel film Avengers: Endgame to satisfy the LGBT agenda and reach a younger Queen Story Hours have been planned at lol public and school librari natnwi over the past year.

KEV SPACEY DEFENDS COMG OUT AS GAY AFTER BEG ACCED OF SEXUAL MISNDUCT: ‘I WAS UNR A LOT OF PRSURE’

As there is no one straight liftyle, there is no one lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr Lovg Men (MLM) - Commonly ed by muni of lor to note the attractn of men to Who Have Sex wh Men - men, cludg those who do not intify themselv as homosexual or bisexual, who engage sexual activy wh other men (ed public health ntexts to avoid excludg men who intify as heterosexual) Gay - Dcrib people who self-intify as lbian or gay their personal, public and/or profsnal liv. Qutng - The procs of nsirg or explorg one’s sexual orientatn and/or genr Orientatn - The scientifilly accurate term for an dividual’s endurg physil, romantic and/or emotnal attractn to members of the same and/or oppose sex, cludg lbian, gay, bisexual and heterosexual (straight) orientatns. Bee of the clil history of the word “homosexual, ” is aggrsively ed by anti-gay extremists to suggt that gay people are somehow diseased or psychologilly/emotnally disorred – notns discreded by the Amerin Psychologil Associatn and the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn the 1970s.

WHO IS JOSEPH ZIEGLER, THE GAY IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HUNTER BIN PROBE?

Intifyg a same-sex uple as “a homosexual uple, ” characterizg their relatnship as “a homosexual relatnship, ” or intifyg their timacy as “homosexual sex” is extremely offensive and should be a le, try to avoid labelg an activy, emotn or relatnship “gay, ” “lbian” or “bisexual” unls you would ll the same activy, emotn or relatnship “straight” if engaged by someone of another orientatn.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

DEFAMATORY LANGUAGE“fag, ” “faggot, ” “dyke, ” “homo, ” “sodome, ” “she-male, ” “he-she, ” “, ” “shim, ” “tranny” and siar ephets The creria for g the rogatory terms should be the same as those applied to vulgar ephets ed to target other groups. “viant, ” “disorred, ” “dysfunctnal, ” “diseased, ” “perverted, ” “stctive” and siar scriptns The notn that beg gay, lbian or bisexual is a psychologil disorr was discreded by the Amerin Psychologil Associatn and the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn the 1970s. Today, words such as “viant, ” “diseased” and “disorred” often are ed to portray gay people as ls than human, mentally ill, or as a danger to societyAssociatg gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr people or relatnships wh pedophilia, child abe, sexual abe, btialy, bigamy, polygamy, adultery and/or ct Beg gay, lbian, bisexual or transgenr is neher synonymo wh nor ditive of any tenncy toward pedophilia, child abe, sexual abe, btialy, bigamy, polygamy, adultery and/or ct.

WELE TO GAY IENDLY NORTHERN ARIZONA

For those who heard about the se of Ray Cole—a Brish tourist arrted last year Marrakech, Moroc, on spicn of mtg “homosexual acts” and sentenced to four months’ hard time a Morocn jail prr to his early release— is perhaps difficult to image that Moroc was somethg of a gay paradise for whe men of standg the aftermath of World War II. The lerature available to potential gay travelers to Moroc—of which there is a great al sce, spe of laws and social norms there, Moroc remas a prime statn for package holiday-goers om Bra, France, and Germany—is very clear settg out what is and isn’t acceptable.

MYRTLE BEACH GAY TRAVEL

In unmistakable language, both male homosexualy and lbianism are nmned by the spired apostle Pl: “God gave them up to disgraceful sexual appet, for both their femal changed the natural e of themselv to one ntrary to nature; and likewise even the mal left the natural e of the female and beme vlently flamed their lt toward one another, mal wh mal, workg what is obscene and receivg themselv the full repense, which was due for their error. Bee of the clil history of the word “homosexual, ” is aggrsively ed by anti-LGBTQ activists to suggt that people attracted to the same sex are somehow diseased or psychologilly/emotnally disorred – notns discreded by the Amerin Psychologil Associatn and the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn the 1970s.

Sexual orientatn is the accurate scriptn of an person’s endurg physil, romantic, and/or emotnal attractn to people of the same genr and/or people of a different genr, and is clive of people who are lbian, gay, bisexual, queer, and pansexual, as well as straight people.

HOW GAY CULTURE BLOSSOMED DURG THE ROARG TWENTI

The phras “gay liftyle, ” “LGBTQ liftyle, ” “homosexual liftyle, ” and “transgenr liftyle” are ed to nigrate LGBTQ people by accurately suggtg that their sexual orientatn and/or genr inty is a choice and therefore n and should be “cured” or “changed. Anti-LGBTQ Terms Mastream Media Should Avoid“fag, ” “faggot, ” “dyke, ” “homo, ” “sodome, ” and siar ephetsWhile some the muny have reclaimed and e the words to scribe themselv, the creria for mastream news media g the rogatory terms should be the same as those applied to vulgar ephets ed to target other groups: they should not be ed except a direct quote that reveals the bias of the person quoted or if a LGBTQ person the term to scribe themself.

WHAT’S IT LIKE TO BE GAY … MOROC?

We jt don't for me, I am choosg to believe that Allan is wish fulfillment for all of the ltle gay boys of the world, who jt wanted to hang out wh Barbie her Dream Hoe, play drs up, and stay as far away om sports as humanly 's to Allan, a gay in the is now playg theaters. “We see gay men who have never been sexually or physilly asslted wh siar post-trmatic strs symptoms to people who have been bat suatns or who have been raped, ” says Alex Kroghlian, a psychiatrist at the Fenway Instute’s Center for Populatn Rearch LGBT Health. Usually when you hear about the shockg primacy of hookup apps gay life—Grdr, the most popular, says s average er spends 90 mut per day on —’s some panicked media story about murrers or homophob trawlg them for victims, or about the troublg “chemsex” scen that have spng up London and New York.

IS ALLAN OM 'BARBIE' GAY? 5 REASONS TO THK HE MIGHT BE

There are more than 60 untri wh laws that crimalise same-sex sexual acts acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, cludg Sdi Arabia.'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough".He said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'".When Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3,000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance blossomed.Three years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022. Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos".He relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife."Danny Beard on Same Sex Love and MarriageDanny explor same-sex weddgs, fdg out why upl chose to get married, the challeng unrpng this cisn and what mak the wedd relatnships work.The uple said they now wanted to help people who were not as ee and strive for "equaly for everyone"."Now I'm here a safe place I want to fight for others to be able to marry who they want," Adam said."I'm so lucky but I want everyone else Sdi to marry the one they love whout facg discrimatn and persecutn." Image source, Fay photographImage ptn, Peter McGrah and David Cabreza say they are "very proud" to have been the first same-sex uple married EnglandMore than 40,000 same-sex marriag took place between 2014 and 2020, acrdg to the Office for Natnal StatisticsPeter McGrah and David Cabreza, origally om Stland and the US, ma history when they beme the first same-sex uple to marry England on 29 March 2014.The trailblazers married jt after midnight at Islgton Town Hall.

THIS “GAY LIFTYLE” BULLSH NEEDS TO STOP

The uple, who live London, said a "really betiful memory" was on the way home when one of their sons shouted out of the black b wdow to Trafalgar Square, "My dads jt got married" and cheered "Yay, gay marriage"."It was so sweet seeg him so happy," Mr Cabreza said. I’m referrg to the ncept of the “homosexual liftyle”, or the “gay liftyle” this tweet om @TODAYonle shows, a recent survey rried out by the Instute of Policy Studi as part of Sgapore’s “natnal nversatn” found that Sgaporean society “generally don’t accept gay liftyl” urse, if you read the article or look at the actual report, you’ll fd that only 47% (dark and light orange) reject this “gay liftyle”. And we need to get rid of this bbish people don’t live a “gay liftyle” the way your teenage son might sudnly ci to drs as a goth and listen to The Cure; we’re not talkg about a hobby or a whim, we’re talkg about their liv and the people they love and choose to be timate we stop thkg of as a “gay liftyle” and start seeg for what is — i.

THE HEALTH RISKS OF GAY SEX