What’s Good about Beg Gay?: Perspectiv om Youth - PMC

Contents:

• IS THE NEW TREND FOR SO MANY YOUNG PEOPLE TO SAY THEY'RE GAY/BI ETC?
• "THE GAY TREND"
• WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?
• WHY WOULD PEOPLE 'CHOOSE' TO BE GAY?
• POLICIAN SAYS BEG GAY IS A 'FASHN TREND': ' MY WHOLE LIFE UP TO 50, I HAD NEVER SEEN OR HEARD OF A HOMOSEXUAL PERSON'
• WHAT’S GOOD ABOUT BEG GAY?: PERSPECTIV OM YOUTH

IS THE NEW TREND FOR SO MANY YOUNG PEOPLE TO SAY THEY'RE GAY/BI ETC?

But for him, as a gay male (and a fabulo queen), when you don't agree wh somethg someone om the LGBTQ+ muny or their alli say (onle om what I got om ) you're met wh hostily. All you are dog is makg harr for actual gay people, and when we are so close to gettg our rights and equaly, we do not need anyone settg 's probably safe to assume most people who e out as gay are not fakg . If you are wonrg why there are so many people g out today, and thk that there are sudnly more gay people the world, let me ask you this: do you really thk there are more gay people, or do you thk more people are feelg safe to tell people they are gay now that we live a society where is not punishable by ath?

The "gay trend" has also found a place on televisn, known as "queer bag", where wrers tease an LGBT relatnship for sometim several seasons, whout tendg to make the relatnship official. ” The edian Bill Maher said on his show that by 2054, if we follow what he se as the current trajectory, “we will all be gay, ” addg that the rise the number of younger people intifyg as transgenr seemed spic. Bee of the fluence of Schorr put siarly Natnal Review: “To suggt that social suggtibily uld be playg a role the skyrocketg numbers of young girls’ exprsg their sire to bee mal, for example, is not of urse to say that gay and transgenr people would not exist whout the topics’ beg discsed the public square.

“The young adults are g of age, cludg g to terms wh their sexualy or genr inty, at a time when Amerins creasgly accept gays, lbians and transgenr people, and LGBT dividuals enjoy creasg legal protectn agast discrimatn, ” the analysis om Gallup read. It very much appears that same-sex sexual attractn is not a choice but actg on is; so if you fe gay as the mere prence of same-sex attractn, then om everythg we unrstand, beg gay is not a choice. Bis, even if I did thk they were gay, ’s certaly not somethg I’m gog to brg up when first meetg someone, given how ’s a) irrelevant, and b) none of my damn don’t feel the same though.

"THE GAY TREND"

Homosexual members of society n unfortunately expect to regularly be challenged, sctised and nmned by belligerent type who are seemgly nvced that homosexualy is a “liftyle choice” issue has e up aga (for what is possibly the 12, 456, 987, 332nd time) for several reasons.

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

A high-profile homosexual person dog this (or pretty much anythg) is certa to get objectns om those who “don’t approve” around the thgs is evable, and so is the whole “beg gay is a choice” accatn. The mastream media has always been somewhat blunt or ham-fisted s portrayal of even heterosexual relatnships (for evince of this, see pretty much any married uple an advert), so was a long shot that they’d show homosexuals accurately.

Normally heterosexual characters sudnly displayg homosexual leangs when a boost viewg figur are need is a mon trope the days, so you n sort of see how this might make some people thk ’s a “choice”, if they lack more realistic sayg that sexualy is set stone om birth is also not que right, the ma emphasis of those g the choice argument is that homosexuals have weighed up their optns and nscly cid “I am gog to be gay om now on”. This seems, to put dly,, as many have poted out, if sexual orientatn is a choice, then you should feasibly be able to choose to be straight aga if beg gay isn’t “workg out”.

Comedian Todd Glass mak a brilliant pot his book (which is great, I got for Christmas), which is that if you genuely believe sexualy is a choice, then you’re not actually straight, you jt haven’t met anyone persuasive enough those who argue that homosexualy is a choice variably assert that is a wrong choice. 5 percent Gallup’s fdgs based on 2017 a time when the majory of Amerins support gay rights, more than half a after the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage, ’s clear that a growg percentage of the U.

WHY WOULD PEOPLE 'CHOOSE' TO BE GAY?

”The ‘silent majory’ of the LGBT munyUnlike Gallup’s surveys prev years, which simply asked rponnts to answer “y” or “no” to whether they intify as LGBT, the 2020 survey allowed rponnts to give a greater level of tail about their fdgs provi a wdow to the largt subset of LGBT Amerins, a group that Hammack lls “the silent majory of the LGBT muny”: bisexual than half of LGBT adults intify as bisexual, the Gallup survey data found, while a quarter say they are gay, 12 percent intify as lbian, 11 percent as transgenr and 3 percent as another term, such as queer. This means that nearly 12 percent of all Gen Z adults intify as bisexual, and about 2 percent each intify as gay, lbian or parison, about half of lennials who intify as LGBT say they are bisexual, while olr age groups, intifyg as bisexual is about as mon as intifyg as gay or lbian.

Some of this stigma is rooted notns that people are eher gay or straight, and msagg durg the 20th century that foced on blogil “born this way” arguments for gay rights. ”But bisexual adults are much ls likely than gays and lbians to be “out” to the important people their liv, acrdg to a Pew Rearch Center analysis of survey data om Stanford Universy.

An outspoken polician Atralia has suggted that homsexualy is nothg more than a fashn trend, argug that the legalizatn of same-sex marriag the untry had spawned a new wave of gay Katter, the head of the eponymo right-wg Katter Atralia Party, ma his latt homophobic ments while on the mpaign trail the northwtern state of Queensland ahead of an upg feral More: Mormon gay nversn therapist now "choosg to pursue life" as homosexualAcrdg to, Katter said had bee "popular" to bee homosexual recent years, suggtg, "In my whole life up to 50, I had never seen or heard of a homosexual person. " He add, "It's sort of ntroversial, " acrdg to the New Zealand —whose party holds three seats the Queensland Parliament and one (his own) the natnal parliament—is a ntroversial polician wh a history of homophobic ments. Chanc are if you don’t intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or trans yourself, you might thk about what you’ve seen on TV – so Queer as Folk, Orange is the New Black, or The L Word, to name a few TV hs.

POLICIAN SAYS BEG GAY IS A 'FASHN TREND': ' MY WHOLE LIFE UP TO 50, I HAD NEVER SEEN OR HEARD OF A HOMOSEXUAL PERSON'

Even those who do feature wh the four letters – notably bisexual and trans people – n often feel margalised by lbian and gay people, and like that they don’t really belong to such a “muny”.

WHAT’S GOOD ABOUT BEG GAY?: PERSPECTIV OM YOUTH

Published fal eded form as:PMCID: PMC3326393NIHMSID: NIHMS358675AbstractThis article explor gay and bisexual male adolcents’ posive perceptns of their sexual orientatn inty. Addnal primary them and sub-them were intified wh each tegory that further illtrate how gay/bisexual youth were able to velop posive nceptualizatns of their sexual orientatn spe experiencg negative societal msag about beg gay/bisexual.

Keywords: Bisexual, gay, male, riliency, sexual orientatn, youthAdolcence is a velopmental perd where young people are maturg physilly, emotnally and socially as they transn to adulthood (Erikson, 1980; Hill, 1983).

When the fluenc are negative, psychologil distrs among adolcents may rult, pecially for those youth who intify as lbian, gay, or bisexual (Almeida, Johnson, Corliss, Molnar & Azrael, 2009; Hershberger & D’Augelli, 1995; Ueno, 2005). Th, this article tak a rilience-based approach to examg sexual orientatn inty among gay/bisexual male adolcents by sharg their perceptns regardg the posive aspects of beg gay/bisexual.