Kev Maxen, an associate strength ach wh the Jacksonville Jaguars, has bee the first male ach a major U.S.-based profsnal league to e out as gay.
Contents:
- EQUAL RIGHT TO KISS? WHY YOU MAY BE DISGTED BY GAY BEHAVR WHOUT KNOWG IT
- JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
EQUAL RIGHT TO KISS? WHY YOU MAY BE DISGTED BY GAY BEHAVR WHOUT KNOWG IT
"Gay-iendly" people unnscly feel that two men kissg public is morally wrongWhile walkg through a park Budapt a few weeks ago, I spied a very strange sight. And that’s when the sad tth stck me: wh the exceptn perhaps of jt a handful of plac the world (and even those are qutnable), gay upl are not ee to participate this most basic, mdls and normal exhibn of romantic behavr. Compared to the issue of gay marriage, gag equaly the “right” to display such nocent feelgs of affectn for one’s same-sex partner is an even greater hurdle for gay rights advot—and, many ways, ’s an even more important one.
This is bee recent fdgs dite that changg negative attus toward gays begs not wh tn, per se, but stead wh exposg people more regularly to same-sex romantic, I know what you’re thkg. Nobody is stoppg gay upl om holdg hands public, or om kissg and huggg, for that matter.
JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
Not only do gay upl wish to avoid beg pummeled by the ocsnal homophobic thugs who n be lurkg anywhere or beg subjected to ephets sp at them by simplemd onlookers.
And what mak the suatn plited is the fact that, although many people hold the explic belief that ’s okay for gay people to be affectnate wh one another public (that is to say, if you were to ask them whether ’s okay for gay people to kiss public, they’d say of urse is), the same people neverthels hold implic negative attus on the subject. Half of the participants were asked to read a brief story about the director of a risqué mic vio which turned out to have the si-effect of enuragg gay men to French–kiss public. (Thk Katy Perry’s homoerotic “I Kissed a Girl” but, for this study, a male-on-male “I Kissed a Boy” equivalent.
) The remag participants read the same story, yet this other versn the vio was said to have ed straight upl to French–kiss public rather than gay men. It was strsed to participants both ndns that the director knew the vio was likely to duce public French–kissg but this was not his primary goal makg the participants were then asked the followg qutns: (1) Did the director tentnally enurage homosexual men [or straight upl] to French–kiss public? (2) Is there anythg wrong wh homosexual men [or straight upl] French–kissg public?