This Amerin Psychologist reprt prents suggtns for avoidg heterosexual bias language ncerng lbians, gay men and bisexual persons.
Contents:
- KEV SPACEY DEFENDS COMG OUT AS GAY AFTER BEG ACCED OF SEXUAL MISNDUCT: ‘I WAS UNR A LOT OF PRSURE’
- HETEROSEXUAL VS GAY - WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?HETEROSEXUAL | GAY |AS NOUNS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HETEROSEXUAL AND GAYIS THAT HETEROSEXUAL IS HETEROSEXUAL WHILE GAY IS NAPE.AS A VERB GAY ISTO CROW.OTHER COMPARISONS: WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?HETEROSEXUAL VS YTERGAYHETEROSEXUAL
KEV SPACEY DEFENDS COMG OUT AS GAY AFTER BEG ACCED OF SEXUAL MISNDUCT: ‘I WAS UNR A LOT OF PRSURE’
Rults also reveal listeners uld distguish between gay and heterosexual men’s voic wh an accuracy of 62 per cent * homosexual or heterosexual *
Even today’s relatively forward-thkg society, wh all of the rmatnal and tnal advantag provid by the Inter and related digal technologi, many people have a limed unrstandg of what means to be homosexual, bisexual, and genr dysphoric. (To be an openly gay man or woman impli a personal social tegratn wh one’s homosexualy, cludg beg “out” by fully acceptg one’s homosexualy and sharg about wh iends, fay, and others.
Y, people wh genr inty issu will typilly self-intify as heterosexual, homosexual, or bisexual, jt as people who are perfectly fortable wh their birth sex tend to self-intify their sexual orientatn, but genr inty do not any way fluence who or what one fds romantilly and sexually sirable. Terms I hear fairly often clu pansexual, polysexual, heteroflexible, homoflexible, queer, sexually open-md, MSM (men who have sex wh men), and WSW (women who have sex wh women). If you are terted learng more about sexual orientatn and/or genr dysphoria, there are many eful rourc provid by plac like the Los Angel Genr Center, Parents and Friends of Lbians and Gays (PFLAG), the CDC’s GLBT Rource Page, the Human Rights Campaign, and hundreds of lol GLBT-supportive webs.
Robert Weiss LCSW, CSAT-S is the thor of Cise Control: Unrstandg Sex Addictn Gay Men and Sex Addictn 101: A Basic Gui to Healg om Sex, Porn, and Love Addictn, and more.
HETEROSEXUAL VS GAY - WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?HETEROSEXUAL | GAY |AS NOUNS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HETEROSEXUAL AND GAYIS THAT HETEROSEXUAL IS HETEROSEXUAL WHILE GAY IS NAPE.AS A VERB GAY ISTO CROW.OTHER COMPARISONS: WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?HETEROSEXUAL VS YTERGAYHETEROSEXUAL
A dramatic rise Brown Universy stunts who intify as gay, queer, asexual, bisexual, pansexual, qutng or 'other' uld be attributed to vague terms allowg straight kids who want the stat and privilege that now wh intifyg as LGBT whout actually engagg any same-sex behavr. * homosexual or heterosexual *
Amics at the Universy of Sydney pared the voic of gay, straight and bisexual men a study volvg 160 the rearch led by clil psychologist Jam Morandi, people were reced to analyse the voic of 60 men, 20 of whom were gay, 20 straight and 20 bisexual. ‘Voice may unter visibily many bisexuals feel’An abstract of the study, tled Can listeners tect if a man is bisexual om his voice alone, reads: “The prent study examed whether bisexual men n be intified om their voic ak to how gay men n be intified on their voice alone. “The fdgs may also she light on whether bisexual male voic, like gay male voic, differ om straight voic terms of their genr non-nformy – a qutn that to date has not been examed.
”But amics noted the rearch was limed on the grounds all men who participated the study are Atralian, which may not be reflected among wir the thors nced the study did not ntrol for the rerdg environment or microphone-to-mouth distance, which uld have affected the qualy of the voice thors said the fdgs suggted that while the voic of bisexual men the sample were perceived as more mascule and attracted to femal, listeners did not associate this imprsn wh a rult, while bisexual men may appear to be at lower risk of facg voice-based intifitn and discrimatn than gay men, they may often be mistaken as beg study was published the Journal of Sex Rearch. He said some members of his team disagreed wh the urse of actn but they took a vote and ultimately released a statement which Spacey revealed he was gay.
* homosexual or heterosexual *
Somehow, the origal “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” premiered on Bravo two s ago this month, prentg five gay men – each specializg a specific liftyle area – as they scend upon a (ually) heterosexual male subject need of some support, whether was wh clothg choic, groomg, anizatn or perhaps an unrlyg issue around self nfince. It was a novel take on the makeover ncept, not only terms of beg one of the first monstroly succsful programs the then-nascent realm of realy TV, but also one of the first tl to feature not one – but five – gay people as the leads. Krsley agreed, sayg, “We meet people all the time who are probably their thirti now, who say, ‘I me om a very nservative fay, we were very relig, “Gay” was not somethg that was ever spoken about our home, and your show allowed to at least have that nversatn, if not make easier for me to e out.
He add that of urse, isn’t only gay people who approach them wh spiratnal msag, and that at the time the origal show aired, the st saw how their visibily as gay people wh a larger straight world was beg received firsthand.
And for those who cricized the origal seri for rercg stereotyp by havg a gay fashnista or bety expert swoop to tidy thgs up, Colls creds his rint foodie Allen for a memorable moment at the show’s first NBC upont Los Angel back 2003, when he faced a slew of reporters and had the perfect retort.