Are you qutng your sexualy? Fd out if you’re gay, straight, bisexual, or asexual. Learn what the terms mean and if they apply to you.
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AM I GAY?
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Gay - While this adjective has historilly scribed men who are attracted to other men, the term now is ed to refer to anyone who experienc romantic, emotnal, or physil attractn to people of the same genr. Sce genr inty and sexual orientatn are separate, transgenr people n intify as straight, gay, lbian, bisexual, etc.
Homophobia, culturally produced fear of or prejudice agast homosexuals that sometim manifts self legal rtrictns or, extreme s, bullyg or even vlence agast homosexuals (sometim lled “gay bashg”).
QUIZ: HOW GAY ARE YOU, REALLY?
The term homophobia was ed the late 1960s and was ed promently by Gee Weberg, an Amerin clil psychologist, his book Society and the Healthy Homosexual (1972). Although the suffix phobia generally signat an irratnal fear, the se of homophobia the word stead refers to an attudal disposn rangg om d dislike to abhorrence of people who are sexually or romantilly attracted to dividuals of the same sex. Homophobia is a culturally ndned rponse to homosexualy, and attus toward homosexuals vary wily across cultur and over time.
Intolerance toward homosexual behavur grew particularly the Middle Ag, pecially among the adherents of Christiany and Islam.
To unrstand the wir cultural impact of homophobia, awarens of the general societal nsens of the nature of homosexualy is necsary.