Am I Hetero, Gay or Bi?

Contents:

• AM I HETERO, GAY OR BI?
• AM I GAY, STRAIGHT, BI, OR PAN?
• ¿ER GAY, HETERO, BI O TUERO? EL MEME QUE SE RíE LAS ENCUTAS
• HIV NOW FECTS MORE HETEROSEXUAL PEOPLE THAN GAY OR BISEXUAL MEN – WE NEED A NEW STRATEGY

AM I HETERO, GAY OR BI?

We hear a lot about the Big Three Sexuali — straight, bisexual and gay. If you’re a young man, you might assume that eher you’re straight or you’re not, meang you’re likely gay and maybe bisexual. Yet the evince suggts that more young men intify or scribe themselv as mostly straight than intify as eher bisexual or gay bed.

Yet when the men were forced to choose between straight, bisexual or gay, about three-quarters marked straight bee for them bisexual, even if is unrstood as “bisexual-leang straight, ” is too gay to accurately scribe their inty. Tradnally, our unrstandg has been that if you’re male and have even a slight attractn to the same sex, then you mt be gay.

He’s not a closeted gay man who fears beg gay yet wants to keep a slight, perhaps secretive, gay si by danglg his potential for guy sex. He may retreat om a full intifitn wh heterosexualy, but rarely do he gravate toward bisexualy, and almost never do he move toward homosexualy of any sort. It is Mostly Straight: Sexual Fluidy Among Men, not Mostly Straight: Sexual Fluidy Among Gay Men.

AM I GAY, STRAIGHT, BI, OR PAN?

i am hetero i always says that im 90 hetero 10 homo but s wrong i put everythg like an hetero that i am and never works im ot pri i hate lgbt but welp 90% is 90%. got 40% bi, 30% gay and 30% het**why mt they be such close rults**. All i thk of is a gay male or would like to be wh any orientatn wh a thg/member.

This tt seems to believe I am male but I’m not so said gay but ig that means straight. I feel more gay lately I'm really wantg a boyiend to love me physilly sexually emotnally and mentally.

Even today’s relatively forward-thkg society, wh all of the rmatnal and tnal advantag provid by the Inter and related digal technologi, many people have a limed unrstandg of what means to be homosexual, bisexual, and genr dysphoric. From personal experience, I n tell you that when I found out at 14 years old that beg gay was an actual thg, I experienced credible relief. To be a homosexual man or woman means havg a personally signifint and meangful romantic and/or sexual attractn primarily to adults of the same sex.

¿ER GAY, HETERO, BI O TUERO? EL MEME QUE SE RíE LAS ENCUTAS

(To be an openly gay man or woman impli a personal social tegratn wh one’s homosexualy, cludg beg “out” by fully acceptg one’s homosexualy and sharg about wh iends, fay, and others. Y, people wh genr inty issu will typilly self-intify as heterosexual, homosexual, or bisexual, jt as people who are perfectly fortable wh their birth sex tend to self-intify their sexual orientatn, but genr inty do not any way fluence who or what one fds romantilly and sexually sirable.

HIV NOW FECTS MORE HETEROSEXUAL PEOPLE THAN GAY OR BISEXUAL MEN – WE NEED A NEW STRATEGY

Nor do beg heterosexual, homosexual, or bisexual necsarily rrelate to havg (or not havg) a genr inty issue. Sexual orientatn li along a ntuum that rang om exclive heterosexualy to exclive homosexualy and clus var forms of bisexualy. Of urse, a lot of folks out there fd the terms heterosexual, homosexual, and bisexual somewhat limg, and sometim even gradg.

Terms I hear fairly often clu pansexual, polysexual, heteroflexible, homoflexible, queer, sexually open-md, MSM (men who have sex wh men), and WSW (women who have sex wh women). As a gay man who strongly believ he was “born this way, ” I lean toward geics and the -utero experience as primary fluenc.

Sometim people who are genr dysphoric wonr if they are gay or lbian, even though that label typilly don’t feel right to them. If you are terted learng more about sexual orientatn and/or genr dysphoria, there are many eful rourc provid by plac like the Los Angel Genr Center, Parents and Friends of Lbians and Gays (PFLAG), the CDC’s GLBT Rource Page, the Human Rights Campaign, and hundreds of lol GLBT-supportive webs. Robert Weiss LCSW, CSAT-S is the thor of Cise Control: Unrstandg Sex Addictn Gay Men and Sex Addictn 101: A Basic Gui to Healg om Sex, Porn, and Love Addictn, and more.