Contents:
- HOW TO LEAD A HETEROSEXUAL LIFTYLE IF YOU ARE GAY
- THE FACT NO ONE LIK TO ADM: MANY GAY MEN ULD JT HAVE EASILY BEEN STRAIGHT
HOW TO LEAD A HETEROSEXUAL LIFTYLE IF YOU ARE GAY
Your fay is homophobic. Internalized homophobia. If they're "supportg" you but only if you choose to act like you aren't gay, that isn't te support and may be toxic.
Recently, there has been creased attentn to health issu experienced by the lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) muny. It may seem obv that if you want to know someone's sexual orientatn you uld simply ask them, "are you gay?
Acrdg to the report, "Instead, the rponnts (who for all tents and purpos would be tegorized as beg heterosexual), often dis-intify om a gay inty, posssg what is referred to as a 'not-me' inty (McCall, 2003). " In other words, they are more likely to intify as "not gay" than as "heterosexual. " Perhaps reflectg limed nsiratn of sexual orientatn among those the majory, prev gnive terviewg studi found that rponnts n nfe the words "homosexual" and "heterosexual, " believg that "heterosexual" means beg gay and that "homosexual" means beg straight.
THE FACT NO ONE LIK TO ADM: MANY GAY MEN ULD JT HAVE EASILY BEEN STRAIGHT
"gay" rather than "homosexual"), avoidg labels that people do not unrstand (i. [For women] Lbian or Gay. [For women] Straight, that is, not lbian or gay.
[For men] Gay.
[For men] Straight, that is, not gay. 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.