‘This Book Is Gay’ Author Says Ameri’s Teens Have Bigger Problems Than Her Book

Contents:

• BT GAY TEENAGE M M ROMANCE BOOKS
• THE NEW GAY TEENAGER
• WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT GAY TEENAGERS
• WISNS MIDDLE SCHOOL FEATUR 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' LIBRARY, STIRRG ONLE OUTRAGE
• ‘THIS BOOK IS GAY’ AUTHOR SAYS AMERI’S TEENS HAVE BIGGER PROBLEMS THAN HER BOOK
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

BT GAY TEENAGE M M ROMANCE BOOKS

There’s some homophobia and tense moments, but overall this book will make your heart grow a few siz. Chiefly due to a s-ago cint that end wh the ath of a gay stunt, his school is hant to allow such thgs. LGBTQ: The Survival Gui for Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Qutng Teens by Kelly Huegel Madrone.

If you're terted learng how the gay rights stggle started — and where we are now — this is the perfect place to start. Will Grayson 1 (wrten by John Green) has a "very big and very gay" bt iend, Ty Cooper, and while he's been there for Ty through every heartbreak he's endured, he's on the fence about their iendship.

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THE NEW GAY TEENAGER

And, while Leah's mom knows she's bisexual, she's havg trouble tellg her iends — cludg Simon, who is openly gay after the events of Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda. (shelved 1 time as bt-gay-teenage-m-m-romance).

Gay, straight, bisexual: how much do sexual orientatn matter to a teenager’s mental health or sense of inty? In this down-to-earth book, filled wh the voic of young people speakg for themselv, Rch Sav-Williams argu that the standard image of gay youth prented by mental health rearchers—as prsed, isolated, dg-pennt, even suicidal—may have been exaggerated even twenty years ago, and is far om accurate today. The New Gay Teenager giv a rehg and equently ntroversial troductn to nfint, petent, upbeat teenagers wh same-sex sir, who worry more about the chemistry tt or their curfew than they do about their sexualy.

What do “gay” mean, when some adolcents who have had sexual enunters wh those of their own sex don’t nsir themselv gay, when some who nsir themselv gay have had sex wh the oppose sex, and when many have never had sex at all? Over the past year, the news has been filled wh stori of the suici among gay teenagers who’ve suffered bullyg om their peers.

WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT GAY TEENAGERS

And there’s no doubt that some gay teenagers suffer more emotnal distrs than straight on. Rch Sav-Williams, profsor of Human Development at the College of Human Elogy and director of Cornell’s Sex and Genr Lab, has wrten a book that vers the topics lled The New Gay Teenager. In the book, Sav-Williams mak the pot that is much easier to get grants to study clil problems and treatment, meang that gay teenagers whout health or emotnal problems have fallen unr the radar of most amic studi.

We don’t hear about normal gay teens, ” he told the New York Tim for an article earlier this year. A large number of studi found no group differenc between gay and straight youth, but the have not been published. “I’m ncerned about the msage beg given to gay youth by adults who say they are sted to be prsed, abe dgs or perhaps m suici, ” he said.

About 10 to 15 percent are agile gay kids, and they’re sceptible to msag of gay-youth suici. “There are straight youth who are genr-atypil and they suffer as much as gay kids.

WISNS MIDDLE SCHOOL FEATUR 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' LIBRARY, STIRRG ONLE OUTRAGE

But whether there’s a direct lk between bullyg and suici among gay teens has not been shown. Most prompts for gay porn, meanwhile, explibly flt to people of ambiguoly LatX scent wh an unrcut hairstyle. Is that ditive of the typ of gay porn the mols were traed on?

A gay uple, as picted by Unstable Diffn. Gay OnlyFans. In a sea of nned cktails, Gay Water wants to stand out.

In other words, where Bud Light has buckled unr prsure as bigotry grows agast the LGBTQ+ muny, Gay Water’s creator Spencer Hodson wants his new boozy brand to be the anthis of that.

‘THIS BOOK IS GAY’ AUTHOR SAYS AMERI’S TEENS HAVE BIGGER PROBLEMS THAN HER BOOK

“The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them,” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer.

Gay Water, however, is out and proud. The nned cktail is named after a lloquialism given to the popular mixed drk (vodka and soda) orred at bars by the gay muny. “Puttg a product wh the word gay the tle is reprentatn self,” which he hop reclaims the word om the negativy ’s sometim associated wh.

He thought of creatg Gay Water about a year ago while on a vatn wh his iend that had got a job wh the beverage dtry.

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

The two chatted about the limed amount of gay people wh , and wh Hodson burnt out om his tradnal day job tech, started the nned cktail. Hodson built up a strong social media followg on TikTok and Instagram durg Covid-19 and is g some of the money om that (as well as om iends and fay) to help fund Gay Water. “Gay is an umbrella term and the ia behd the brand is to be as clive as possible, which means we want alli, we want straight people to be part of this muny we’re buildg.”.

For now, Gay Water is sold largely onle (wh a few retailers) and four sugar-ee flavors — watermelon, lime, peach and grapeu — at lnch.

Gay Water might not have the ep pockets pared to s petors, like Whe Claw, but “even at small sle, pani of many siz are havg succs makg spir-based seltzers and premixed cktails,” Bryan Roth, an analyst for Feel Goods Company and edor of the alhol beverage newsletter, Sightl+, told CNN.