Is okay to be Gay?

Contents:

• TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED
• IT’S “OKAY” TO BE GAY, AND YOU NEED TO KNOW WHY
• CAN SOMEONE BE HOMOSEXUAL AND NOT GAY?
• WHY GAY IS NOT OK

TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED

“First of all, I’m gay, ” he said, “and this movie is gog to be gay non. "Alex AvilaAnd Gay Tim, a Brish LGBTQ news se, celebrated Friday, the day of the film’s official release, as “Barbie day“ and lled the world-renowned doll a “queer cultural phenomenon. PicturIn an terview wh Fandango, actor Kate McKnon, who is openly gay and plays “Weird Barbie” the film, said Barbie is about “imagatn.

Many also flagged the teased scene which Barbie, now the real world, exchang a longg look wh Ameri Ferrera’s Gloria character; though, the relatnship between the two turns out to be a tribute to motherhood and the tradnal, nuclear before the film’s release, Robbie all but squashed the mors that some or any of the Barbi and Kens would be gay, tellg the Brish LGBTQ magaze Attu: The dolls don’t “actually have sexual orientatns.

There are brief appearanc by Earrg Magic Ken and Palm Beach Sugar Daddy Ken, both of which Mattel has always nied were tentnally gay-d. ”As far as the queer-d trailers and promotnal clips for the new “Barbie” film, Rand poted to a phenomenon known as “gay wdow advertisg, ” or the practice of advertisers gturg to queer dienc a way that will go over the heads of those who would disapprove. Today, the abnormal is normal, which is why you need to know ’s okay to be gay, a new msage om our terrated culture.

IT’S “OKAY” TO BE GAY, AND YOU NEED TO KNOW WHY

Rpondg to the Gay Guy Who Said, “I Was Born This Way”. You know the normalizatn of the abnormal is full effect when the lennial asks, “Do you stggle wh gay acceptance? Do you know why there is a generatn of Christians who do not stggle as much as you do wh the gay problem?

CAN SOMEONE BE HOMOSEXUAL AND NOT GAY?

But there was one thg he did know; our son knew the words gay and homosexualy. He said gay was when two men marry each other. I did thk, however, “You don’t know what the ‘f-bomb’ means, and you’re unfaiar wh the ‘s-word, ’ but you know what the words gay and homosexual mean?

The gay liftyle may sicken you. You may get angry (or prsed) when you thk about the roads the gay muny has ma our culture. Do you know how to x forward so you n nnect wh a generatn bombard wh the gay agenda so often that do not repulse them?

WHY GAY IS NOT OK

So when we therapists are nonted wh male clients, often married on, who e to wh ep nflicts about their sexual attractn to other men, we often fd that they are willg to e the word “homosexual, ” but chew the “gay” label. Bee “gay” impli an embracg of the gay liftyle — gay bars, gay pri paras, perhaps multiple sex partners, or even anonymo sex.

Unfortunately, much of our natn’s polics have long exacerbated the problem as well, shamg and vilifyg homosexualy, leadg legns of men stgglg wh sexual inty to ternalize their homophobia. For example, gay men the Mormon fah are moral nflict. Durg the’90s, I beme a “gay-affirmative therapist.

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