From Bottoms and Problemistas to theatre mps and gay wrtlers, this summer has somethg for everyone — pecially if you're queer.
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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.
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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.
Hooker published her rearch a 1957 paper tled “The Adjtment of the Male Overt Homosexual.
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 *
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.
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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.