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SCRAP THE STEREOTYP! LGBTQ+ DO NOT MEAN GAY, WHE, AND MALE
As far as bisexual men are ncerned, the stereotype is damagg that people generally assume they don't exist: Serly, tons of people allege that men are eher straight or gay, perd, and baffl me. As the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn (GLAAD) pots out, bisexual people are often acced of beg more promiscuo than non-bisexual people bee they are attracted to both men and women.
A 2017 survey for Attu magaze polled around 5, 000 gay, queer, or bisexual men—and a staggerg 69 percent of them admted that their sexual orientatn ma them feel ls mascule at some pot their liv. The global rponnts said 30 percent of such visuals pict gay men as "feme"; 29 percent show LGBTQ+ people rryg the rabow flag; 29 percent portray lbians as "mascule"; and 28 percent such visuals pict gay men as "flamboyant. While there was some fort seeg them navigate their g out procs or overe heterosexism on screen, their storyl often appeared unrealistic—at least parison to the nuanced homophobia I observed my relig, immigrant fay.
The word may be ed as a noun, to refer to women who intify themselv or who are characterized by others as havg the primary attribute of female homosexualy, or as an adjective, to scribe characteristics of an object or activy related to female same-sex sire. Evince that would suffice any other suatn is aquate here… A woman who never married, who lived wh another woman, whose iends were mostly women, or who moved known lbian or mixed gay circl, may well have been a lbian. Homosexual men are often equated terchangeably wh heterosexual women by the heterocentric mastream, and are equently stereotyped as beg effemate, spe the fact that genr exprsn, genr inty and sexual orientatn are wily accepted to be distct om each other.