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Contents:

• A HANDY GUI TO ALL GAY MEN
• AM I GAY?
• AN ILLTRATED GUI TO REGNIZG YOUR GAY STEREOTYP
• GAY "SIS": HOW LANGUAGE FRE US TO BE OURSELV
• PHYSIL, BEHAVRAL, AND PSYCHOLOGIL TRAS OF GAY MEN INTIFYG AS BEARS
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• GAY PRI
• UNRSTANDG GAY & LBIAN INTI

A HANDY GUI TO ALL GAY MEN

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AM I GAY?

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AN ILLTRATED GUI TO REGNIZG YOUR GAY STEREOTYP

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GAY "SIS": HOW LANGUAGE FRE US TO BE OURSELV

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. That is why throughout this article we are gog to see different typ of homosexualy and orientatns which there may be attractn to people of the same sex. Although the term gay n be ed to speak of both homosexual men and women, as a general le is Gay men are lled homosexuals while lbian is unrstood to be the woman who is attracted to women.

PHYSIL, BEHAVRAL, AND PSYCHOLOGIL TRAS OF GAY MEN INTIFYG AS BEARS

In this sense we n fd two typ of homosexualy, pendg on how one's sexualy is lived as somethg posive or is rejected by the person himself. Most of the homosexual populatn liv their sexualy as somethg self-syntonic, that is, as somethg wh which they are tune and is part of them.

In other words, they have their sexual orientatn well tegrated to their liv, seeg homosexualy as somethg normal about which they should not be ashamed.

However, throughout history homosexualy has been owned upon and even persecuted, stillg the llective imagatn the thought that beg attracted to someone of the same sex is somethg negative, spible and that mt be hidn or even elimated. There are untri where gays and lbians are persecuted and attacked wh impuny for their orientatn whout them beg protected by law, and others an accatn of beg one n even lead to the ath penalty. The knowledge of one's homosexualy n be a liberatg factor for the person, although Acrdg to the beliefs and suatn of each subject, n also volve great pa and feelgs of guilt.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, Kgsley created a seven-level sle to try to unlk and unseat the ia of ​​a pletely closed and variable heterosexualy, homosexualy and bisexualy, velopg a ntuum between heterosexualy and homosexualy exclive.

This tegory refers to the gay populatn that is only sexually attracted to people of the same sex, not beg sexually stimulatg to people of the oppose sex.

GAY PRI

Although the sential characteristic of homosexualy is the fact that there is affective-sexual attractn for people of the same sex is not exclive to this sexual orientatn, there beg different sexuali which n Appear. Consired by many people as a sexual orientatn that is found at the midpot between heterosexualy and homosexualy (Although there may be preferenc towards one or the other), bisexualy is nceptualized as sexual attractn towards people of both the same and oppose sex. And this fatuatn n occur towards people both of the oppose sex (heteroromantic asexual) and of the same sex as one's own (homoromantic asexualy).

UNRSTANDG GAY & LBIAN INTI

In the spir of batg stereotyp by reclaimg and celebratg them, BBDO NY Art Director Jam Kuczynski and illtrator Pl Tuller have created a “Gui to Gay Stereotyp, ” a seri of silk screened imag pturg the sence of your neighborhood gay posters, released this week as we head to Pri season, celebrate the recent Supreme Court cisn on DOMA.

The posters are available for $18 each, and some of the proceeds will go to the “Thk B4 You Speak” mpaign, which supports LGBT teens and rais awarens about homophobia and the e of terms like “That’s so gay, ” “Dyke” and “Faggot.

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