The stigma behd homosexual Public display of affectn (PDA) is relentls. For any straight uple, walkg down the high street holdg hands would not be of any issue, but you are lookg at a pletely different set of l if you are gay holdg your partners hand. Its ludicro, we live a age when…
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- “GAY COUPLE SHOWS PUBLIC AFFECTN FOR A WEEK” | BUZZFEED VIO
- STUDY: MANY STRAIGHT PEOPLE BACK LEGAL RIGHTS FOR GAY UPL BUT REJECT PDA
- STRAIGHT OR GAY, PUBLIC KISSG WILL BE A POTENTIAL DANGER AT THE WORLD CUP QATAR
- IS MA STREET USA READY FOR GAY PDA?
- CIVILI: WHAT’S SO UPSETTG ABOUT A GAY UPLE KISSG PUBLIC?
“GAY COUPLE SHOWS PUBLIC AFFECTN FOR A WEEK” | BUZZFEED VIO
A new study suggts straight people don't want to see gay upl display affectn public, even as they support legal rights for gays. * gay public displays of affection *
When the women refed, the group began to ll them homophobic slurs, and the event lated to the pot where the two women were btally beaten.
Ined, news stori about gay male upl beg attacked for holdg hands or kissg public are not equent. For both is a tly nerve-rackg experience wonrg and worryg that they will be ridiculed, harassed or even physilly asslted by people unfortable wh them beg a gay uple and openly displayg affectn for one another.
STUDY: MANY STRAIGHT PEOPLE BACK LEGAL RIGHTS FOR GAY UPL BUT REJECT PDA
A new study led by a rearcher at Indiana Universy suggts that heterosexuals are generally supportive of legal benefs for same-sex upl, but don't want to see those upl display affectn study, which appears the December issue of the Amerin Soclogil Review, me out of a natnal survey of more than 1, 000 straight, gay and lbian people. Rponnts were given one of three scenars volvg eher a straight, gay or lbian uple.
About 70 percent of straight rponnts said they support herance rights for gay and lbian upl, for example. The level of support on the herance rights issue was the same for heterosexual the straight people the survey were ls supportive of public displays of affectn by gay and lbian all — 95 percent — of the heterosexuals said they approved of a straight uple kissg on the cheek public.
But only 55 percent of heterosexuals approved of gay men dog the same thg, while 72 percent said they found OK for two lbians to display such study also found that straight men were far more disapprovg of public displays of affectns by gay upl than they were of the same behavr by Doan, a doctoral ndidate the Department of Soclogy at Indiana Universy and lead thor of the study, said one of the more tertg fdgs was the heterosexual rponnts' answers on the qutn of rearchers found that 99 percent of heterosexuals approved of legal marriage for straight upl, but jt 53 percent approved of legal marriage for gay men and 59 percent for lbians, Doan figur are nsistent wh natnal polls that show a majory of Amerins support gay marriage. But they ntrast agast the study's other fdgs of heterosexual approval of the legal rights that e wh marriage, for gay and lbian upl.
STRAIGHT OR GAY, PUBLIC KISSG WILL BE A POTENTIAL DANGER AT THE WORLD CUP QATAR
"Heterosexual rponnts tend to thk of marriage more the way they thk of public displays of affectn, whereas gays and lbians seem to thk of more terms of rights, " Doan specific scenars, gays and lbians who were surveyed were some s ls supportive of same-sex upl publicly displayg affectn than they were of straight upl mtg the same acts. "We thk part of the reason they're ls supportive … is that they're aaid of the negative backlash that gay and lbian upl may experience, " Doan said. “There’s really a kd of Potemk village qualy to the tolerance and acceptance” of gay people Ameri, said Clarence Patton, a spokman for the New York Cy Gay and Lbian Anti-Vlence Project.
” Provid gay people agree to “play a very tightly scripted and choreographed role society, puttg your weddg together or what have you, we’re not threateng, ” Mr. The outrage voiced by gay rights groups siarly held ltle surprise.
IS MA STREET USA READY FOR GAY PDA?
Segev for The New York Tim“This type of jeerg om profsnal sports figur at the sight of two men kissg fuels the kd of anti-gay bullyg that hnts untls gay and lbian schoolchildren on playgrounds across the untry, ” Joe Solmone, the print of the Human Rights Campaign, said a statement. A spokman for the Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn nmned the advertisement as “excable.
The eedom to kiss public is hardly the most pellg issue for most gay rights advot, or perhaps even the mds of many gay Amerins.
Why is only a gay issue? Morea is heterosexual, his client list has long clud a number of high-profile profsnals, the majory of them gay women and men. “I’m a very openly gay man, ” said Dane Clark, who manag rental properti and fli a rabow flag om his hoe Kansas Cy, Kan.
CIVILI: WHAT’S SO UPSETTG ABOUT A GAY UPLE KISSG PUBLIC?
” As many gay men have before him, Mr.
” But haven’t thgs changed radilly om the days when lbians and gay men were nsired pariahs, before gay marriage iativ beme ballot issu, before Ellen DeGener was picked to host the Osrs, and ble TV stapl like “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” ma a petive sport of group hugs? The untry which anti-gay advot like the Rev. Fred Phelps once drew headl for picketg Matthew Shepard’s funeral and preachg what was lled “a Day-Glo visn of hatred” n seem very far away at tim om the laissez-faire place which an timated 70 percent of Amerins say they know someone who is gay.