There is no ‘gay gene.’ There is no ‘straight gene.’ Sexualy is jt plex, study nfirms | PBS NewsHour

Contents:

• 10 ANTI-GAY MYTHS DEBUNKED
• THERE IS NO ‘GAY GENE.’ THERE IS NO ‘STRAIGHT GENE.’ SEXUALY IS JT PLEX, STUDY NFIRMS
• GAY CULTURE HAS GROWN TOXIC WH UNCHECKED PRIVILEGE. IT'S TIME FOR TO RET
• FAKE AND GAY
• GAY STEREOTYP: ARE THEY TE?
• COMPACTPODSTMASTHEADABOUTSUBSCRIBESIGN FAKE GAY HISTORY
• FAKE AND GAY MEME GENERATOR

10 ANTI-GAY MYTHS DEBUNKED

”Numero imag circulatg on Facebook the past few weeks show a poster wh the acronym LGBTP, which imag claim stands for “lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and pedosexual.

FCKH8 did not rpond to a requt for ment om USA Court grants feral job protectns to gay, lbian, transgenr workersRooted history of bigotryThe assertn that the LGBTQ muny ndon or supports pedophilia is not only false, but rooted a history of bigotry.

“For s, people who are homophobic, biphobic and transphobic have attempted to nnect LGBT muni wh paedophilia an attempt to stir up fear, hatred and discrimatn, ” Nellist wrote. ”Same-sex marriage lg at 5::Acceptance, advancement, but opposn remasAn old claim, prevly bunkedClaims like this have surfaced onle 2017, Snop traced the posts back to an anti-gay misrmatn mpaign that started on 4chan 2016, the hope of which was to trick the LGBTQ muny to exprsg support for May, Rters bunked siar posts that had begun to recirculate has reported the posts and had them removed by Facebook the past, Ferraro wrote.

THERE IS NO ‘GAY GENE.’ THERE IS NO ‘STRAIGHT GENE.’ SEXUALY IS JT PLEX, STUDY NFIRMS

Such claims also draw on a history of unserved stigma and stereotyp toward the LGBTQ fact-check sourc:Rich Ferraro, Chief Communitns Officer, GLAADNick Morrow, Interim Communitns Director, Human Rights CampaignJoe Nellist, Communitns Coordator, LGBT FoundatnLGBT Foundatn, "Pedosexual Statement"PubMed, Natnal Library of Medice, "Are children at risk for sexual abe by homosexuals? It seems like gay men across the world have formed their own way to pe wh beg on lockdown that ually clus one or more for the followg: endls shirtls workouts, tasteful and/or tastels thirst traps, bakg banana bread, masturbatn, lnchg an OnlyFans, dyeg their hair, or the fal step to mania, buzzg off pletely. Ever sce born-aga sger and orange juice pchwoman Ana Bryant helped kick off the ntemporary anti-gay movement some 40 years ago, hard-le elements of the relig right have been searchg for ways to monize gay people — or, at a mimum, to fd arguments that will prevent their normalizatn society.

GAY CULTURE HAS GROWN TOXIC WH UNCHECKED PRIVILEGE. IT'S TIME FOR TO RET

For the former Florida bety queen and her Save Our Children group, was the alleged plans of gay men and lbians to "rec" schools that provid the fodr for their csa. But addn to hawkg that myth, the legns of anti-gay activists who followed have add a panoply of others, rangg om the extremely doubtful claim that sexual orientatn is a choice, to unalloyed li like the claims that gay men molt children far more than heterosexuals or that hate crime laws will lead to the legalizatn of btialy and necrophilia. The fairy tal are important to the anti-gay right bee they form the basis of s claim that homosexualy is a social evil that mt be supprsed — an opn rejected by virtually all relevant medil and scientific thori.

FAKE AND GAY

Depictg gay men as a threat to children may be the sgle most potent weapon for stokg public fears about homosexualy — and for wng electns and referenda, as Ana Bryant found out durg her succsful 1977 mpaign to overturn a Da County, Fla., ordance barrg discrimatn agast gay people.

Others have ced a group lled the Amerin College of Pediatricians (ACPeds) to claim, as Tony Perks of the Fay Rearch Council did November 2010, that "the rearch is overwhelmg that homosexualy pos a [moltatn] danger to children. Gregory Herek, a profsor at the Universy of California, Davis, who is one of the natn's leadg rearchers on prejudice agast sexual mori, reviewed a seri of studi and found no evince that gay men molt children at higher rat than heterosexual men. The fixated child molter — the stereotypil pedophile — nnot be nsired homosexual or heterosexual bee "he often fds adults of eher sex repulsive" and often molts children of both sex.

Most hard-le anti-gay anizatns are heavily vted, om both a relig and a polil standpot, promotg the tradnal nuclear fay as the sole amework for the healthy upbrgg of children. The Amerin Amy of Child & Adolcent Psychiatry affirmed 2013 that “[c]urrent rearch shows that children wh gay and lbian parents do not differ om children wh heterosexual parents their emotnal velopment or their relatnships wh peers and adults” and they are “not more likely than children of heterosexual parents to velop emotnal or behavral problems.

GAY STEREOTYP: ARE THEY TE?

The Amerin Amy of Pediatrics (AAP) a 2002 policy statement clared: "A growg body of scientific lerature monstrat that children who grow up wh one or two gay and/or lbian parents fare as well emotnal, gnive, social, and sexual functng as do children whose parents are heterosexual. ” The next year, 2005, the APA published a summary of rearch fdgs on lbian and gay parents and reerated that mon negative stereotyp about LGBT parentg are not supported by the data.

COMPACTPODSTMASTHEADABOUTSUBSCRIBESIGN FAKE GAY HISTORY

Siarly, the Child Welfare League of Ameri's official posn wh regard to same-sex parents is that "lbian, gay, and bisexual parents are as well-sued to raise children as their heterosexual unterparts. A 2013 prelimary study Atralia found that the children of lbian and gay parents are not only thrivg, but may actually have better overall health and higher rat of fay hn than heterosexual fai.

Joseph Nilosi, a founr of the Natnal Associatn for Rearch and Therapy of Homosexualy, said 2009 that "if you trmatize a child a particular way, you will create a homosexual ndn.

A si effect of this argument is the monizatn of parents of gay men and lbians, who are led to wonr if they failed to protect a child agast sexual abe or failed as role mols some important way. ” Schumm, who has also argued that lbian relatnships are unstable, has ti to discreded psychologist and anti-LGBT fabulist Pl Cameron, the thor of numero pletely basels “studi” about the alleged evils of homosexualy. The Amerin Psychiatric Associatn noted a 2000 fact sheet available on the Associatn of Gay and Lbian Psychiatrists, that alg wh gay, lbian and bisexual issu, that sexual abe do not appear to be any more prevalent among children who grow up and intify as gay, lbian or bisexual than children who grow up and intify as heterosexual.

FAKE AND GAY MEME GENERATOR

Siarly, the Natnal Organizatn on Male Sexual Victimizatn not on s webse that "experts the human sexualy field do not believe that premature sexual experienc play a signifint role late adolcent or adult sexual orientatn" and add that 's unlikely that anyone n make another person gay or heterosexual. Warren Throckmorton, a psychologist at the Christian Grove Cy College, noted an analysis that “the rearch on sexual abe among GLBT populatns is often mised to make ferenc about atn [of homosexualy].

Anti-LGBT anizatns, seekg to promote heterosexualy as the healthier "choice, " often offer up the purportedly shorter life spans and poorer physil and mental health of gays and lbians as reasons why they shouldn't be allowed to adopt or foster children.