Is My Friend Gay? Quiz - ProProfs Quiz

Contents:

• MY NAME IS GAY
• AM I GAY?
• IS MY FRIEND GAY? QUIZ
• WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?
• SCIENTISTS MAY HAVE FALLY UNLOCKED PUZZLE OF WHY PEOPLE ARE GAY

MY NAME IS GAY

It’s not pletely known why someone might be lbian, gay, straight, or bisexual. You also n’t “turn” a person gay.

For example, exposg a boy to toys tradnally ma for girls, such as dolls, won’t e him to be gay.

Many people say that they knew they were lbian, gay, or bisexual even before puberty. ” Many people, cludg sex rearchers and scientists, believe that sexual orientatn is like a sle wh entirely gay on one end and entirely straight on the other. LGBTQ stands for Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer/Qutng.

AM I GAY?

Sexual inty is how you label yourself (for example, g labels such as queer, gay, lbian, straight, or bisexual). Some people may engage same genr sexual behavr but not intify themselv as bisexual, lbian, or gay. 5% intify as lbian, gay, or bisexual.

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IS MY FRIEND GAY? QUIZ

Earlier my childhood, a iend’s father equently teased me by llg me “gay bla.

WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?

Certaly by my early teens I had a better unrstandg of the meang of “gay, ” as a scriptn of someone’s sexual orientatn and I had begun to brace myself for the rponse I got when I told someone my ’s be clear, I believe that is always to make fun of someone’s name, but to be sultg to others at the same time, well that really is of my earlit lsons troducg myself was never to say, “Hi, I’m Gay”, the way someone might say, “Hi, I’m Amy”, bee evably was an vatn for tastels jok. Even whout that lead-, an troductn would often go like this, “Hi, my name is Gay” and a mon rponse would be, “Are you?

Though was the seventi and I mostly ed my main name, there were the evable tim when I was referred to as “Gay Love, ” a term I remember seeg scrawled on New York subway walls those days, at every turn. It was a strange chapter my life as a person wh the name Gay. When I lled Camp Secury to report and said that my name was Gay Love, the person takg the ll hung up on me.

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SCIENTISTS MAY HAVE FALLY UNLOCKED PUZZLE OF WHY PEOPLE ARE GAY

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. If you jt have a feelg that your brother is gay, that's okay. If you thk your brother is gay bee he watch a "girly" TV show or his voice sounds a certa way, that's relyg on stereotyp.

If you live a particularly homophobic or transphobic area, discs safety plans wh the fay member se of vlence om others. If your fay member has e out as gay or bisexual, accept that they will end up seeg someone of their own genr, and that's perfectly okay. Don't be aaid to rearch beg gay, bisexual, transgenr, asexual, or whatever your fay member me out as.