The fact no one lik to adm: many gay men uld jt have easily been straight | The Spectator

Contents:

• THE FACT NO ONE LIK TO ADM: MANY GAY MEN ULD JT HAVE EASILY BEEN STRAIGHT
• CELEBRI WHO HAVE LEFT A GAY LIFTYLE
• GAY CONVERSN: I SLEPT WH OVER 200 MEN, NOW I'M A HAPPILY MARRIED HETEROSEXUAL DAD
• WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?
• SOME GAYS CAN GO STRAIGHT, STUDY SAYS
• IS IT POSSIBLE TO SYSTEMATILLY TURN GAY PEOPLE STRAIGHT?

THE FACT NO ONE LIK TO ADM: MANY GAY MEN ULD JT HAVE EASILY BEEN STRAIGHT

When I was young, I was told the whole world was divid to heterosexual men and heterosexual women, bar a small number of unfortunate ‘homosexuals’ of both genrs and possibly an even smaller number a third tegory, ‘bisexuals’, who ‘swung both ways’; pl, fally, a ty band of wretched creatur who were physilly not que one thg or the other. Ksey diststed btal tegorisatn but, wishg to unt, nstcted what me close to a slidg sle ntag seven gradatns between exclive heterosexualy and exclive homosexualy. He found that almost half his male terviewe had reacted sexually to both genrs; more than a third had had a homosexual enunter; and more than one ten reported roughly equally strong sexual rpons to both men and women.

All all, I’ve probably slept wh as many straight men as self–intifyg gay or bisexual on: I doubt most were lyg, and some s have reason to know they weren’t. In what pass for the gay ‘muny’, there’s somethg of a taboo about admtg, even to ourselv, that que a few of (not me) uld, wh a ltle axg and self-disciple, be ‘straight’.

CELEBRI WHO HAVE LEFT A GAY LIFTYLE

There exist strong reasons for this taboo among gays: first, ‘we n’t help ’ was absolutely central to our early pch for equaly, and we need to believe .

That's the qutn Atralian news show You Can't Ask That posed to gay men s latt you're not faiar, You Can't Ask That is a miseri on the Atralian Broadstg Corporatn's (ABC) iview service where they ask "outrageo, unfortable, and shockg qutns to unver the tth behd some of the most margalized and misunrstood Atralians. As of January 2015, Jsie J had sold over 20 ln sgl and 3 ln albums statement when she was gay:She said a recent terview:If I meet someone and I like them, I don’t re if they’re a boy or a Chloe Govan had a stronger opn about Jsie’s lbianism:Jsie might have been wh boys the past — but she is 100 per cent gay. Bob Dixon is nng for ernor and claims that childhood abe and teenage nfn ed him to engage gay relatnships or a few 's mpaign issued a statement toutg his fah God and support for tradnal marriage, while nmng any opponents who try to e his past agast him.

[7]Her statement about not beg a gay liftyle any more:Anrson now intifi as heterosexual and an terview wh the Eveng Standard December 2014, she stated:I am an actively heterosexual woman who celebrat however people want to exprs their sexualy. I am very happy for Sheryl…”Statement about not beg gay any more:From an terview when Swoop was asked if she was “born gay”:Swoop: “No and that's probably nfg to some, bee I know a lot of people believe that you are.

GAY CONVERSN: I SLEPT WH OVER 200 MEN, NOW I'M A HAPPILY MARRIED HETEROSEXUAL DAD

Phil Show, The Coral Ridge Hour, The Abundant Life, Cope, His Place, Home Life, and has been the host of Covenant Award wng “Masterg Life” on the Foc on the Fay Rad he said about havg been gay:“Bee of my fear of mature women, I chose to see them as sexls ‘Snow Whe’ figur. I have been changed many and varied ways over the past 32 years after seekg the Lord at the age of 29 to liver me om a bondage to homosexualy, pornography and other sexually addictive behavrs.

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

After 10 years of active volvement the ‘anythg but gay’ homosexual liftyle, J Christ revealed Himself to me and has set me ee om what statistics show to be a ath-style la upon the foundatns of profound brokenns… inty has been pletely transformed and I see myself as the heterosexual male that God had always created me to be. Statement about when he was gay:McClurk, 2002, told a Christian webse that, due to the sexual abe of his earlier years, he had stggled wh homosexualy.

SOME GAYS CAN GO STRAIGHT, STUDY SAYS

Statement about not beg gay anymore:From a blog by Dennis Jernigan…“This statement will probably produce a lot of ntroversy, but this is how I thk of myself: I do not nsir myself a reverg/former/ex gay. Statement when she was gay:“I survived the tears, the isolatn and the feelg that somethg was terribly wrong wh me for lovg another woman… g to terms wh my life as a lbian has been easier for me than has been for many. Clsen’s poetry and creative prose are wily published journals and she was a gay liftyle:“After 12 years a lbian marriage, Jan Clsen fell love wh a man.

”[17]When she left the gay liftyle: Seekg to ntradict the ia that people are born gay, she said, “What’s got to stop is the riggg of history to make the ‘eher/or’ look permanent and universal.

I unrstand why this argument may sound erotic to outsirs for whom the public assertn of a herent, unchangg lbian or gay inty has proved an dispensable tactic the battle agast homophobic persecutn.

IS IT POSSIBLE TO SYSTEMATILLY TURN GAY PEOPLE STRAIGHT?

”Later, Clsen quot the popular lbian poet Audre Lor, who adms the untths associated wh the “born gay” ia, when she wr, “I do not believe our wants have ma all our li holy. Later, he received media verage for publicly announcg that he no longer intified as a homosexual, and that he believed that a gay inty is not harmony wh our created sign.