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• ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER
• GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S HEALTH ISSU
• SOME OF THE GREATT GAY LOVE STORI MOVI
• GAY MENTAL HEALTH: MENTAL HEALTH ISSU FACG GAY MEN
• GAY MALE BRAS AND HOW THEY ONCE HELPED EVERYONE SURVIVE.
• REPORTED EFFECTS OF MASCULE IALS ON GAY MEN
• TOP 10 FASCATG GAY TEXTS FROM HISTORY
• A LTLE LIFE: THE GREAT GAY NOVEL MIGHT BE HERE
• OPPONENTS CALL IT THE ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL. HERE’S WHAT IT SAYS.
• 30 GAY LOVE SONGS: MEN SGG ABOUT MEN
• WHY GAY PARENTS MAY BE THE BT PARENTS
• INTIMACY AND EMOTN WORK LBIAN, GAY, AND HETEROSEXUAL RELATNSHIPS
• ‘BACHELOR’ STAR COLTON UNRWOOD REVEALS HE’S GAY EMOTNAL ‘GMA’ INTERVIEW
• BORN TO BOTTOM? REARCHERS REPORT BLOGIL CORRELATNS ANAL SEX ROLE GAY MEN

ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER

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.

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. 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. The mothers were then classified further to one of five groups: those wh gay male only-children (n = 8), those wh gay male offsprg that had no olr brothers (n = 23), those wh gay male offsprg wh olr brothers (n = 23), those wh heterosexual male only-children (n = 11), and those wh heterosexual male offsprg wh siblgs (n = 61).

GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S HEALTH ISSU

As birth weight tends to crease over succsive pregnanci, the parisons were limed to first live-born sons only (n = 63); this left 4 gay male only-children, 7 gay mal wh no olr brothers, 14 heterosexual mal wh gay younger brothers, 10 heterosexual male only-children, and 28 heterosexual mal wh siblgs. Skorska et al (2016) pos that this might have somethg to do wh some mothers showg a greater immune rponse agast male offsprg, rultg more fetal loss, the rult beg that such mothers are both ls likely to have any children at all and more likely to have gay male children particular. If mothers of gay men do not tend to have a greater rat of female-to-male offsprg, this would st some doubt on the explanatn (and, sce the only data I've heard reports that gay men tend to have more olr brothers, seems they would have noticed the sister pot by now if existed).

On the other hand, if this is a more general immune reactn agast fetal bodi, regardls of their sex, we would not expect such a pattern ( might also predict that mothers takg immunosupprsants would be ls likely to have gay offsprg/misrry, but thgs are unlikely to be that simple owg to the fact that other effects would rult too). Loosely based on Shakpeare's plays, G Van Sant’s 1991 unterculture classic drama My Own Private Idaho is not jt a poetic and btersweet story of two gay street htlers, Mike (River Phoenix) and Stt (Keanu Reev), journeyg om Portland, Oregon, to Idaho, and then to Rome search of Mike's mother.

The featural overlaps n further rerce genred expectatns through bottom-up procs (addnal to the top-down fluence of genred stereotyp; Adams, Nelson, Soto, Hs, & Kleck, 2012) versn theory propos that gay men and lbian women have the mds of the oppose sex, thereby explag their same-sex attractn (Katz, 2007; Lhomond, 1993). Consistent wh genr versn stereotyp, perceivers judge men and women wh more genr atypil featur or behavr as gay and lbian om facial portras (Dunkle & Francis, 1990), brief vios (Rieger, Lsenmeier, Gygax, Garcia, & Bailey, 2010), voice rerdgs (Smyth, Jabs, & Rogers, 2003), and body movement (Johnson, Gill, Reichman, & Tassary, 2007). Facial emotn th plays an important role imprsns of others’ social group memberships, cludg sexual orientatn—but s part perceptns of women’s sexual orientatn remas Current RearchBased on the opposg associatns of gay men wh femy and lbian women wh masculy, we reasoned that parallel but plementary relatns between genr typily and emotn would expla perceptns of women’s sexual orientatn (e.

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We gray-sled the photographs, standardized them height and cropped them to the top of the head (cludg hair), bottom of the ch and extrem of the furthermore obtaed photographs of 94 lbians, 98 straight women, 95 gay men and 86 straight men (aged 18–35 years) origally llected om onle datg profil and validated prev rearch that cropped the fac om their origal backgrounds, gray-sled them and standardized them size (see Rule, 2011; Rule et al., 2008, 2009b). 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.

” But no verage of the book I’ve seen has discsed as a novel fundamentally about gay liv—as the most amb chronicle of the social and emotnal liv of gay men to have emerged for many book follows a group of four men—Ju, Willem, JB, and Mallm—over three s of iendship, om their years as llege roommat to the heights of profsnal succs.

In says and terviews, Yanagihara has spoken of her sire stead to wre across difference, explorg what she se as specifilly male iendships and emotnal as Yanagihara’s characters challenge nventnal tegori of gay inty, so A Ltle Life avoids the faiar narrativ of gay fictn. ” In s sometim gelg scriptns of Ju’s self-harm and his perceptns of his own body, the book remds rears of the long filiatn between gay art and the eakish, the abnormal, the extreme—those aspects of queer culture we’ve been enuraged to fet an era that’s creasgly embracg gay marriage and is not a register of feelg or exprsn rears are acctomed to Amerin lerary fictn. Instctn on genr and sexualy would be nstraed all 97-101: Classroom stctn by school personnel or third parti on sexual orientatn or genr inty may not occur krgarten through gra 3 or a manner that is not age appropriate or velopmentally appropriate for stunts acrdance wh state is the sentence that has earned the bill the “Don’t Say Gay” language is vague and subject to terpretatn.

GAY MENTAL HEALTH: MENTAL HEALTH ISSU FACG GAY MEN

Takg to Instagram on Tuday, the 25-year-old athlete and former Richmond Flyg Squirrels player revealed to his fans and followers that while he is no longer playg for the team, which is part of the San Francis Giants system, he is thankful for the time he had and isn't givg up on his love of baseball, pecially as an out, gay man. Emotnal bra fluenced by the amygdala, the neo-rtex, the limbic system and the lob preontal the thgs that are on the emotnal bra • External factor that om outsi the dividual and fluenc or chang the attus of external fluenc dividual n be dividually, groups, between dividuals affected group or vice versa, n also be direct, namely through termediari such as the mass media, both prt and electronic and rmatn advanced through satelle servic DEFINITION OF HOMOSEXUALWord homosexual nsists of two words, the first is the word “Homo” which means same, the send “Sexual” and refers to sexual terurse. Friendly also means an tert emotns (passn, emotnal nnectn) and or the erotic, both proment (predomant) or solely (exclively), to people of the same sex, wh or whout physil ntact n tegorize that homosexualy has several kd or type, such as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr or transsexual or simpler form, they are lled LGBT.

Moreover, sce Frd thks that everyone has hidn homosexual tennci, he believ that unr certa ndns, such as stratn anxiety ntu to male homosexual behavr may be open for the first time learng theori: Acrdg to behavrism, reward and punishment n shape dividual behavr to the tenncy of their sexual orientatn. Whereas, observatn of viant behavr whout beg punish may enurage the viant behavr such as OF HOMOSEXUALIn terms of psychiatry, there are two kds of homosexuals (Waldner-Hgd, 1999) such as:Ego-dystonic homosexualy (sync wh their ego): An ego dystonic is the one who do not terfere wh sexual orientatn, nor unnsc nflict affected and there is no urgency, urge or sire to change their sexual orientatn. 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.

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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. 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. In fact, some ways, gay parents may brg talents to the table that straight parents don' parents "tend to be more motivated, more mted than heterosexual parents on average, bee they chose to be parents, " said Abbie Goldberg, a psychologist at Clark Universy Massachetts who rearch gay and lbian parentg.

REPORTED EFFECTS OF MASCULE IALS ON GAY MEN

More than half of the kids adopted by gays and lbians had special report didn't pare the adoptn preferenc of gay upl directly wh those of heterosexual upl, said thor David Brodzsky, rearch director at the Instute and -edor of "Adoptn By Lbians and Gay Men: A New Dimensn of Fay Diversy" (Oxford Universy Prs, 2011). Part of that uld be their own preferenc, and part uld be bee of discrimatn by adoptn agenci that puts more difficult children wh what seworkers see as "ls sirable" matter how you slice , Brodzsky told LiveScience, gays and lbians are highly terted adoptn as a group. "When you thk about the 114, 000 children who are eed for adoptn who ntue to live foster re and who are not beg readily adopted, the goal is to crease the pool of available, terted and well-traed dividuals to parent the children, " Brodzsky addn, Brodzsky said, there's evince to suggt that gays and lbians are pecially acceptg of open adoptns, where the child retas some ntact wh his or her birth parents.

"Intertgly, we fd that a small percentage, but enough to be noteworthy, [of birth mothers] make a nsc cisn to place wh gay men, so they n be the only mother their child's life, " Brodzsky parentgRearch has shown that the kids of same-sex upl — both adopted and blogil kids — fare no worse than the kids of straight upl on mental health, social functng, school performance and a variety of other life-succs a 2010 review of virtually every study on gay parentg, New York Universy soclogist Judh Stacey and Universy of Southern California soclogist Tim Biblarz found no differenc between children raised hom wh two heterosexual parents and children raised wh lbian parents. "There's no doubt whatsoever om the rearch that children wh two lbian parents are growg up to be jt as well-adjted and succsful" as children wh a male and a female parent, " Stacey told is very ltle rearch on the children of gay men, so Stacey and Biblarz uldn't draw nclns on those fai. "The dividuals feel like their perspectiv on fay, on genr, on sexualy have largely been enhanced by growg up wh gay parents, " Goldberg 33-year-old man wh a lbian mother told Goldberg, "I feel I'm a more open, well-round person for havg been raised a nontradnal fay, and I thk those that know me would agree.

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Keywords: emotn work, fairns and equaly, gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, timacy, qualative rearchLong-term mted relatnships, and particular the qualy of relatnships, are profoundly important to the health and well-beg of men and women (Umberson, Williams, Powers, Liu, & Needham, 2006). In heterosexual relatnships, genr differenc emotnal exprsn, sexual exprsn, and sire often ntribute to relatnship stra and nflict, sometim promisg timacy (Elltt & Umberson, 2008) know ls about timacy long-term gay and lbian upl than heterosexual upl; however, the available evince suggts that differenc exist between upl volvg two women and upl volvg two men.

Compared wh men, women voted much more discsn to the importance of mimizg boundari between partners an effort to promote timacy; approximately half of the women lbian and heterosexual relatnships emphasized the importance of mimizg boundari between partners to sta timacy, pared wh approximately one-fifth of men gay and heterosexual relatnships. Approximately two thirds of women ( lbian and heterosexual relatnships) dited that they unrtook nsirable work to mimize boundari between partners (pared wh two heterosexual men and seven gay men), but this emotn work played out que differently for women heterosexual and lbian relatnships.

For men heterosexual relatnships, emotn work often took the form of attemptg to share more of their feelgs rponse to their partner's efforts to enurage more emotnal openns and three gay upl, both partners agreed that mimizg boundari was important and shared work toward that end. This had bee creasgly important to Donald sce he was diagnosed wh jaw and prostate ncer a few years before the than one third of men heterosexual relatnships also emphasized the sire to rpect boundari between partners, but this was a more ntent area for their relatnships ( ntrast to men gay relatnships, who rarely scribed such disrdance).

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” Men gay relatnships rarely saw sex as a way to mimize boundari between partners, and the majory of s where gay partners no longer had sex the absence of sex did not dimish a sense of timacy and closens between ntrast to gay upl, lbian and heterosexual upl scribed more ncern about any cle sexual equency bee sexual equency symbolized timacy.

Separatg Sex From Emotnal IntimacyMeangs and experienc A recurrg theme our analysis was that men (approximately one fifth of men heterosexual relatnships and half of the men gay relatnships) were more likely than women (four women across relatnships) to scribe emotnal timacy and sex as separable. Approximately half of the men gay relatnships emphasized that although sex wh their partner had the power to enhance emotnal timacy, sex was neher cril to the long-term succs of their relatnship nor an ditor of how emotnally nnected and mted the partners were to each other. Emotn work to separate sex om timacy Although gay men were more likely than other rponnts to discs sex as separable om emotnal timacy, approximately one third of gay rponnts said that they diverged om their partner on the importance they placed on separatg sex and timacy.

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Moreover, the sire to mimize boundari between partners may be more strsful for women different-sex relatnships than for women same-sex relatnships bee of greater partner ristance and disrdance a different-sex also found that men gay and heterosexual relatnships were more likely than women lbian and heterosexual relatnships to value boundari between partners, but the emotn work men did around timacy was que different same- and different-sex ntexts. Consistent wh existg rearch (see the review Pepl & Fgerhut, 2007), our fdg that gay men were more likely than those other relatnal ntexts, cludg heterosexual men, to scribe a separatn between emotnal timacy and sex helps expla why sexual exclivy is ls important to men gay relatnships and why sex outsi the relatnship is generally not acceptable if the enunter volv emotnal timacy.

Clil prentatns of closeted gay people may lie somewhere severy between selective attentn--most monly seen the se of homosexually self-aware patients thkg about "the possibily" that they might be gay--to more severe dissociatn-- which any ht of same-sex feelgs ris totally out of nsc awarens. More severe forms of dissociatn are monly observed married men who are homosexually self-aware but nnot perm the thought of themselv as gay (Roughton, 2002) and the ClosetSome closeted gay people n reflexively speak whout revealg the genr of the person beg discsed or whout providg any genred tails of their personal liv.

Transparency, visibily, losg one's voice, and beg stuck behd walls or other barriers are some of the terms ed to scribe the subjective experience of dissociative tachment (Drcher, 1998) Closet and Gay-BashgFor some gay men, "Hidg and passg as heterosexual be a lifelong moral hatred of the self; a maze of rptns, petty li, and half tths that spoil social relatns fay and iendship" (Herdt and Boxer, 1993). The rults of two of their studi suggt there very well uld be blogil subgroups of gay men, which is to say that one’s blogil makp uld possibly (and most likely, directly) fluence whether or not he lik to fuck or get fucked (or both) has been studied, anal-sex role has been viewed as a rult of social factors (more on that a mute). Dpe every study I’ve read that asks about the anal-sex role of s rponnts has found that the majory men who have sex wh men intify as versatile (cludg the two studi at hand om the Universy of Toronto team) as well as my own anecdotal experience suggtg as much, the top/bottom bary persists gay culture.

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And wh the assumptns of femy men e sults (“bottom” as a pejorative amongst gay men) and wh those e a specific kd of shame addn to the shame many gay men already experience merely livg a heterosexual perhaps if the variatn among gay men has blogil basis, uld help make one’s sir, not to mentn those of others, ls ght or timidatg, for one thg.

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“What’s tertg about this work is even among a group of dividuals who are pretty siar terms of their sexual preference—that is, gay men preferrg men—there uld be a diverse set of procs that lead them to exhib that same sexual orientatn oute, ” explaed VanrLaan, an assistant profsor the Universy of Toronto Mississga’s Department of Psychology, and the senr thor on two recent papers: “Handns is a bmarker of variatn anal sex role behavr and Relled Childhood Genr Nonnformy among gay men, ” published on PLOS One, and “Genr Nonnformy and Birth Orr Relatn to Anal Sex Role Among Gay Men, ” published Archiv of Sexual studi built on prev rearch suggtg that gay men are more likely to be genr-nonnformg (“ls terted , say, male-typil [exhibg] ls mascule personaly characteristics, ” said VanrLaan), are more likely to be non-right hand than their straight unterparts, and are more likely to have olr brothers ( what’s known as the aternal birth orr effect, which technilly poss that the more olr brothers a man has om the same mother, the more likely he is to be gay).

INTIMACY AND EMOTN WORK LBIAN, GAY, AND HETEROSEXUAL RELATNSHIPS

The Universy of Toronto team ntacted what would bee their sample of men durg the 2015 Toronto Pri ftivi and asked them to fill out onle surveys regardg their sexual posng (both preference and behavr—there was discernible variatn between the two), their relled childhood genr nonnformy (which was assigned a number through a regularly ed 23-em qutnnaire The Relled Childhood Genr Inty/Genr Role Qutnnaire, which asks qutns like “As a child my bt or clost iend was 1-always a boy, to 5-always a girl, ” and “In fantasy or pretend play, I took the role 1-only of boys or men, to 5-only of girls or women), their handns, and their amount of siblgs (the sampl of the two studi were almost intil, wh 91 straight men surveyed both studi, and 242 gay men the handns study vers the 243 men of the birth orr study).

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”The team’s ultimate fdgs poted to statistilly signifint variatn amongst the gay men, wh bottoms beg more likely wh the sampled populatns to be genr-nonnformg (Table 1) and non-right hand (Table 2), as well as to have a higher proportn of olr brothers (Table 3):Note that the handns study found the strongt lks terms of behavr (i.

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