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PURR-I POST: ARE GAY CATS A THG?
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“The homosexual has been a signifint part of human sexual activy ever sce the dawn of history, ” he wrote (p. Edgar Ber once observed: “Contradictg his own ground premis, Ksey’s advice not only leav unqutned the male/female and heterosexual/homosexual bari, but seems to re-vt them wh their validy of old.
Evelyn Hooker, a psychologist, is another important figure rewirg the public perceptn of gay people. Durg her tenure as a profsor at UCLA, she beiend one of her stunts named Sam From, who me out to her as a gay man, and he enuraged her to nduct a study to terme if homosexualy really was a disorr or part of one’s DNA. Hooker reced 30 gay men and 30 straight men and had each participant take three project tts: The Rorschach, the Make a Picture Story Tt, and the Thematic Apperceptn Tt.
Beg Asian Amerin and LGBTQ+ n feel lonely, wh stutns such as ethnic church often disavowg non-heterosexual relatnships while tradnal LGBTQ+ spac such as gay bars n be unwelg. * queer identity cat *
In srg the tts, she assigned what’s lled adjtment ratgs, and the rults were unequivolly favor that there was no difference between the gay men and the straight men ─ th btg down the long-held belief that homosexualy was lked to mental illns.
The featured study exam mographic characteristics and sexualy of people who intify as queer, pared to those who intify as lbian/gay, bisexual, and other sexual mory inti. * queer identity cat *
Hooker published her rearch a 1957 paper tled “The Adjtment of the Male Overt Homosexual.
From Bottoms and Problemistas to theatre mps and gay wrtlers, this summer has somethg for everyone — pecially if you're queer. * queer identity cat *
Evelyn Hooker, ” Hooker sat down to reflect on her groundbreakg work and the dangers the gay men faced participatg. In 1935, Sigmund Frd, nrologist and founr of psychoanalysis, famoly wrote a letter to a mother who wanted him to cure her son’s homosexualy. He wrote: “I gather om your letter that your son is a homosexual.
Homosexualy is assuredly no advantage, but is nothg to be ashamed of, no vice, no gradatn; nnot be classified as an illns; we nsir to be a variatn of the sexual functn, produced by a certa arrt of sexual velopment. Many highly rpectable dividuals of ancient and morn tim have been homosexuals, several of the greatt men among them.