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?
Unr the aegis of the UCLA Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr Studi Program, Queer Cats Journal of LGBT Studi is an open-accs e-publitn of * queer identity cat *
“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.
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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.
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 *
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.
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Hooker published her rearch a 1957 paper tled “The Adjtment of the Male Overt Homosexual.
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.