IT's Gay Bashg Scene Serv No Purpose Except as Porn for Homophob

Contents:

• HERE'S WHAT FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL WOULD DO AND WHAT WOULDN'T DO
• IT'S GAY BASHG SCENE SERV NO PURPOSE EXCEPT AS PORN FOR HOMOPHOB
• HOW TO ACCEPT THAT YOU ARE GAY
• THE GAY VOICE
• GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
• THE SOLUTN TO "GAY" INSULTS: FREEDOM OF SPEECH
• THE EVOLUTNARY PARADOX OF HOMOSEXUALYBEG GAY NO LONGER HOLDS THE STIGMA ONCE DID, BUT EVOLUTN, WHY DO A NON-REPRODUCTIVE TRA PERSIST?TOM WHIPPLEPUBLISHED: MAY 8, 2018 AT 11:00 PMTHE EVOLUTNARY PARADOX OF HOMOSEXUALY
• WHAT’S GOOD ABOUT BEG GAY?: PERSPECTIV OM YOUTH

HERE'S WHAT FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL WOULD DO AND WHAT WOULDN'T DO

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IT'S GAY BASHG SCENE SERV NO PURPOSE EXCEPT AS PORN FOR HOMOPHOB

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HOW TO ACCEPT THAT YOU ARE GAY

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THE GAY VOICE

The bill, which passed Florida’s Senate last week and the state’s Hoe of Reprentativ Febary, do, however, nta the terms “sexual orientatn” and “genr inty, ” each legal experts say that whether the bill prohibs the word “gay” self is a “distractn. ”Beyond brandg, a re argument over the bill centers around whether would prohib the “stctn” or “discsn” of sexual bill’s sponsors have emphatilly stated that the bill would not prohib stunts om talkg about their LGBTQ fai or bar classroom discsns about LGBTQ history, cludg events like the 2016 adly attack on the Pulse nightclub, a gay club Orlando.

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GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Mark Robson spoke at Berean Baptist Church Wston-Salem, North Carola, earlier this month, where he once aga went on an anti-LGBTQ rant while preachg, openly clarg that straight relatnships are “superr” to gay relatnships.

THE SOLUTN TO "GAY" INSULTS: FREEDOM OF SPEECH

“Somebody asked me the classroom one time, this fella was a homosexual [and he] looked at me and said, ‘Oh, so you thk your wife and you, you thk your heterosexual relatnship is superr to my hband and our homosexual relatnship? Robson said that if you put a gay uple one room and a straight uple another room and then wa ne months, there will still be two people the gay uple’s room whereas there will be three people the heterosexual uple’s room. Most people the LGBTQ+ muny know om experience that acceptg your sexualy will lead to your beg a happier, more open this gui, the term gay has been ed to clu all forms of non-heterosexual attractn, whether that be people who are lbian, gay, bisexual, queer, pansexual, or otherwise not straight.

THE EVOLUTNARY PARADOX OF HOMOSEXUALYBEG GAY NO LONGER HOLDS THE STIGMA ONCE DID, BUT EVOLUTN, WHY DO A NON-REPRODUCTIVE TRA PERSIST?TOM WHIPPLEPUBLISHED: MAY 8, 2018 AT 11:00 PMTHE EVOLUTNARY PARADOX OF HOMOSEXUALY

In an rmative and entertag book, tled “Homo Myster”, evolutnary blogist and psychologist David Barash offers a number of different scenars for the evolutn of predomantly male homosexualy, which is nsired a more stable tra.

WHAT’S GOOD ABOUT BEG GAY?: PERSPECTIV OM YOUTH

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