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Contents:
- CHICKENS AND OTTERS AND BEARS, OH MY! SIX TYP OF GAY YOU SHOULD PROBABLY KNOW BEFORE YOU TWEET
- A HANDY GUI TO ALL GAY MEN
- WHAT IS AN OTTER IN GAY CULTURE
- WHAT IS A GAY OTTER? EXPLAED!
CHICKENS AND OTTERS AND BEARS, OH MY! SIX TYP OF GAY YOU SHOULD PROBABLY KNOW BEFORE YOU TWEET
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Often ed to refer to asexual people a siar manner as “gay” or “straight” are ed to refer to homosexual or heterosexual people.
A HANDY GUI TO ALL GAY MEN
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Ally: A person who supports and rpects sexual diversy, acts acrdgly to challenge homophobic and heterosexist remarks and behavrs, and is willg to explore and unrstand the forms of bias wh themselv. An umbrella term that refers to members of a subculture the gay and bisexual male muni and is often fed as more of an attu or sense of fort wh natural masculy and bodi.
Bicur: An dividual who typilly intifi as gay or straight while showg some cursy for a relatnship or sexual activy wh a person of the genr they do not favor. Faghag/Ffly: A woman who associat mostly or exclively wh gay or bisexual men.
Fluid: A sexual or genr inty that exists beyond a bary system of eher gay or straight, man or woman.
WHAT IS AN OTTER IN GAY CULTURE
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Gay: At tim, “gay” is ed to refer to all people, regardls of sex, who have their primary sexual and or romantic attractns to people of the same sex. The term n also exclively refer to men who are emotnally, romantilly, sexually, affectnately, or relatnally attracted to other men, or who intify as members of the gay muny.
Lbians, bisexuals, and transgenr dividuals may feel exclud by the term “gay.
WHAT IS A GAY OTTER? EXPLAED!
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Heteronormativy: The assumptn, dividuals or stutns, that everyone is heterosexual, or that heterosexualy is superr to homosexualy and bisexualy. Also, the benefs that lbians, gay men and bisexuals receive as a rult of claimg a heterosexual inty and nyg a lbian, gay or bisexual inty.
(Ocsnally "cubby bear"): A hairy young gay man wh the begngs of a bear's burly or stocky figure. He don't have to be short; to dite shortns of stature or slenrns a hairy young gay man, the gog term is "otter". ." name="Dcriptn" property="og:scriptn * gay term cub *
Homoflexible: A person who is mostly attracted to the same sex/genr, but n, on ocsn be attracted to the oppose sex/genr. Homophobia: Fear of, hatred of, or disfort wh people who love and sexually sire members of the same sex.
Homophobic reactns often lead to tolerance, bigotry and vlence agast anyone not actg wh soc-cultural norms of heterosexualy. Bee most LGBTQ people are raised the same society as heterosexuals, they learn the same beliefs and stereotyp prevalent the domant society, leadg to a phenomenon known as ternalized homophobia, whereas LGBTQ-intified dividuals feel shame, guilt or hatred towards the part of themselv intified as LGBTQ.
The gay world is often reprented as some sort of monolhic whole that has the same culture. That is a lie. It is actually broken down to a handful of substrata to which each gay belongs. Here they are. * gay term cub *
Homoromantic: A person who is romantilly attracted to a member of the same sex or genr.
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A homoromantic person is not necsarily sexually attracted to the same sex or genr. Homosexual: The clil term, ed the field of psychology, for people wh a same-sex sexual attractn.
Otter is a term ed by gay men, referrg to a subset of men who blend the physil and social tras of both bears and twks, both vokg and fyg tradnal... * gay term cub *
Internalized Homophobia: The fear and self-hate of one’s own homosexualy or bisexualy dividuals who have learned negative ias about homosexualy throughout childhood. Ksey Sle: The ntuum mol vised by Aled Ksey 1948 that plotted sexualy om 0 to 6; 0 beg exclively heterosexual and 6 beg exclively homosexual.