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Contents:

• I’M 43 – BUT I’M MA TO FEEL LIKE A DOSR BY YOUNGER GAY MEN
• GAY TT
• IS MY FRIEND GAY? QUIZ
• WHAT IS YOUR GAY NAME?
• MY NAME IS GAY

I’M 43 – BUT I’M MA TO FEEL LIKE A DOSR BY YOUNGER GAY MEN

The northern Italian cy of Padua has started removg the nam of non-blogil gay mothers om their children’s birth certifit unr new legislatn passed by the “tradnal fay-first” ernment of Prime Mister Grgia Meloni. Surrogacy is illegal Italy, and gay marriage has not been legalized.

“There is no discrimatn agast children, ” Fay Mister Eugenia Roccella told parliament when she troduced the bill June, explag that the children of gay upl would have accs to school and medil servic jt like those who only have one livg parent.

Passg the Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Fay Valu bill would further rce eedoms a untry where gay sex is already punishable wh up to three years jail, crics and activists Odoi, an amic rearcher, filed a lawsu on July 7 challengg the bill's nstutnaly, sayg would impact donor aid and other forms of fancial support. Ghana's Supreme Court on Wednday led her arguments were not sufficiently nvcg to grant an lg cleared the way for the bill, one of the harsht towards the LGBTQ muny Ai, to go through a fal stage of parliamentary approval before beg signed to May, Uganda's Print Yoweri Meveni signed one of the world's tought anti-LGBTQ laws, which spelled out the ath penalty for "aggravated homosexualy"'s bill, backed by relig and tradnal lears, clus jail sentenc of up to 10 years for advotg for LGBTQ rights. Then, take this "Is my iend gay quiz?

GAY TT

This is a quiz that n tell you whether both (you and your iend) are gay or not.

You'll fd out exactly how gay you are once and for all.

Alas, the future, make sure you ask about payment polici up ont to protect to Roxane Gay at Gay is an endowed profsor of media, culture and femist studi at Rutgers, the thor of the forthg “Opns” and a ntributg Opn wrer.

IS MY FRIEND GAY? QUIZ

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WHAT IS YOUR GAY NAME?

if someone asked you if you were gay what would you say??

MY NAME IS GAY

By Gay CffiAs the youngt my fay of five, I am the only one who was not named for a grandparent or beloved nt or uncle. As happened, I was named for a fondly remembered childhood acquatance of my not only was breakg om that fay tradn the e of a b of a stir, and wasn’t a sat’s name to boot (also an expected practice) nothg prepared my parents or me for the fallout to e as I grew up wh the name “Gay” the fifti and sixti. I also rell that she wavered a b between the nam Gay and Joy, but aga the real ntroversy began my later teens when the word “gay”, me to reprent more than a synonym for happy or reee.

Earlier my childhood, a iend’s father equently teased me by llg me “gay bla. Certaly by my early teens I had a better unrstandg of the meang of “gay, ” as a scriptn of someone’s sexual orientatn and I had begun to brace myself for the rponse I got when I told someone my ’s be clear, I believe that is always to make fun of someone’s name, but to be sultg to others at the same time, well that really is of my earlit lsons troducg myself was never to say, “Hi, I’m Gay”, the way someone might say, “Hi, I’m Amy”, bee evably was an vatn for tastels jok. Even whout that lead-, an troductn would often go like this, “Hi, my name is Gay” and a mon rponse would be, “Are you?

Though was the seventi and I mostly ed my main name, there were the evable tim when I was referred to as “Gay Love, ” a term I remember seeg scrawled on New York subway walls those days, at every turn. It was a strange chapter my life as a person wh the name Gay. When I lled Camp Secury to report and said that my name was Gay Love, the person takg the ll hung up on me.