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Contents:

• FEATURED FANFICTN
• WILLIAM GAY — TWILIGHT
• WISNS MIDDLE SCHOOL FEATUR 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' LIBRARY, STIRRG ONLE OUTRAGE
• MURKOWSKI CHALLENGER ENDORSED 'EX-GAY' THERAPY, DENOUNCED TWILIGHT

FEATURED FANFICTN

So, uh, this is held on Amo and will fely nta the followg: gay ships, angsty ships, angsty gay ships, the sadst scen anyone uld ever see bee hontly Ja x Mar is envied by Twilight, possibly some sadned gays, some angry straights, a lot of mem, ECT. William Gay — Twilight.

William Gay’s dark new novel, Twilight, will likely divi rears to two mps—those who love the Southern Gothic element and those who don’t. Gay nails the bt scriptn ever of an old r’s oxidized pat: “It had been black but was a black now that remembered nothg of pat and seemed to draw light and suck out of sight somewhere beneath s surface. ” When Gay settl to the simpler and more natural iambic rhythms of English, he wr great stuff: “He put the lid on the bucket and tapped home wh a fist and laid the bsh neatly atop and walked off rapidly toward the walnut grove.

[Note: William Gay is a Paste ntributor. And when those queer YA books did feel urgent, was often bee of a plot that left an empty hole the p of my stomach, like one of the characters realizg she was straight at the end or someone’s parent kickg them out of the hoe for beg gay.

WILLIAM GAY — TWILIGHT

And gave me words for the tensn I felt about disverg my romantic feelgs, all whout the backdrop of homophobia that was prent so many LGBTQ+ novels at the time. Fantasy elements asi, om a purely emotnal perspective, how is that any different om riskg your relatnship wh the person you tst most when you’re a sophomore high school?

She fds refuge only her iendship wh another young misf, a gay classmate she nicknam Legs. Gay men?

Every year, Gallup releas a survey of how many Amerins intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr. “Three out of 10 women unr the age of 25 nsir themselv to be gay or transgenr. Everyone will be eher gay or trans or nonnformg or whatever the list of 50 or 60 different optns there are.

WISNS MIDDLE SCHOOL FEATUR 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' LIBRARY, STIRRG ONLE OUTRAGE

” The edian Bill Maher said on his show that by 2054, if we follow what he se as the current trajectory, “we will all be gay, ” addg that the rise the number of younger people intifyg as transgenr seemed spic. Bee of the fluence of Schorr put siarly Natnal Review: “To suggt that social suggtibily uld be playg a role the skyrocketg numbers of young girls’ exprsg their sire to bee mal, for example, is not of urse to say that gay and transgenr people would not exist whout the topics’ beg discsed the public square. ”This fear is based on an unrstandg of genr and sexualy as alarmgly agile, easily undone by a gay teacher or a trans TikTok fluencer.

And so are homosexualy, bisexualy and beg ’s been an objective crease the number of visible L. This is the first time Amerin history that gay and trans people have been able to live as themselv any real way, wh jobs and marriag and dogs and ts and visibily.

"Today is Natnal Comg Out of Homosexualy Day, a day dited to helpg homosexuals overe their sexual tennci and move towards a healthy liftyle, " she wrote the October 11 article, published unr her main name, Kelly Hartle. ""Homosexuals n e out of homosexualy bee their preference is not blogilly mandated, " she ntued.

MURKOWSKI CHALLENGER ENDORSED 'EX-GAY' THERAPY, DENOUNCED TWILIGHT

"Unlike race or genr, homosexualy is a choice. Conversn therapy has been nounced by every major health anizatn the natn as effective and harmful, and many stat have barred licensed therapists om subjectg mors to claimed that homosexualy is largely ed by sexual moltatn childhood, and she repeatedly ced the work of Exod Internatnal, an "ex-gay" anizatn that shut down 2013.

"Exod believ heterosexualy is God's creative tent for humany and homosexualy is behavr outsi of God's will, " she wrote.