Why Some Straight People Might Have Gay Sex | Psychology Today

Contents:

• CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT
• WHY SOME STRAIGHT PEOPLE MIGHT HAVE GAY SEX
• A PECULIAR DISAPPROVAL OF GAY PRI

CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT

Acrdg to the Texas judicial missn’s 2019 warng, Hensley referred gay upl who wanted her to pri over their marriage ceremony to other people who would officiate. Californians will vote on a proposal to amend the state Constutn on the 2024 ballot to reaffirm gay marriage rights — a ut move that amid natnal anxiety after recent lgs by the nservative-leang U.

Although there is no current threat to the legaly of gay marriage, and Print Bin signed a bill safeguardg last year, the Democratic-domant state Legislature is seekg to remove language om California’s Constutn that still f marriage as between a man and outdated state fn has been emed unenforceable and unnstutnal thanks to feral law, but LGBTQ advocy groups are askg voters to repeal and amend the California Constutn to stead explicly state that marriage is “a fundamental right. Gav Newsom was out of state, Senate lear Toni Atks (D-San Diego) signed bills to law on his behalf as the first out gay actg ernor. In terms of pure numbers, we know that the vast majory of those who have gay sex intify as straight — and this is te for both women and men.

WHY SOME STRAIGHT PEOPLE MIGHT HAVE GAY SEX

The dividuals tend to engage gay sex private enunters, wh some appearg to be early phas of “g out” as not straight. Though they loved the sexual experience and wanted to have a future relatnship wh the person, they had mixed attus toward homosexualy and premaral sex.

Hence, they believed that homosexual relatns were almost always wrong and scribed their polics as nservative. Bee only four sexual orientatn optns were given to stunts — heterosexual, bisexual, homosexual, and don’t know — perhaps many of the dividuals were misplaced the straight tegory. Are the the men who will bee vigilant wh anti-gay rhetoric, and who will e eher their nservative relig or polil beliefs to jtify their behavr?

If we lived a culture which havg some gree of same-sex sexualy did not imply that you th had to be the “dread” lbian, gay, or bisexual, would be easier for dividuals who stggle or n’t ci their sexualy to be te to their thentic self.

A PECULIAR DISAPPROVAL OF GAY PRI

Would this help them to curb their animosy toward homosexualy and let them accept their same-sex sexualy whout feelg stigmatized? Tony J Silva, Straight Inty and Same-Sex Dire: Conservatism, Homophobia, and Straight Culture, Social Forc, Volume 97, Issue 3, March 2019, Pag 1067–1094,. Latent class analys also found distct groups of straight-intified men and women wh substantial same-sex activy and/or attractn, ditg that is a heterogeneo populatn terms of attus, cludg homophobia.

This suggts that straight intifitn is due partly to embeddns straight culture and enjoyment of straight privilege, not simply homophobia. The rults also suggt that homophobia is related to inty formatn for women, as well as men, but that there is substantial wh-group variatn.

Contrary to what the one-act le of homosexualy suggts (Schilt and Wtbrook 2009), same-sex sexual behavr do not necsate a gay/lbian or bisexual inty, nor do the prence of same-sex attractn. Qualative rearch, overall, shows that there are many factors other than attractns and sexual practic that fluence straight sexual fairly separate leratur explore genred differenc (1) sexual behavr and intifitn and (2) homophobia.