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

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• 9 ADVANTAGES OF BEING GAY
• WHAT’S GOOD ABOUT BEG GAY?: PERSPECTIV OM YOUTH
• THE PERKS OF BEG THE GAY GUY AT WORKIN A WORLD WHERE SEXUALY HELPS YOU STEAD OF HURTG YOU...{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}LIFEBY MATTHEW THARRETTJULY 13, 2016/12:08 PMBY MATTHEW THARRETTJULY 13, 2016 / 12:08 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"THE PERKS OF BEG THE GAY GUY AT WORK","DATEPUBLISHED":"2016-07-13T16:08:56.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2016-07-13T16:08:56.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"MATTHEW THARRETT","ARTICLESECTN":"LIFE"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}LA-BASED SKETCH EDY DUO KEV GRAND SPENCER AND MATTHEW LUDWSKI — AKA COOL KID ADJACENT — OUTLE THE TERMS OF EVERY GAY MAN'S DREAM JOB A NEW SKETCH LLED "THE GAY HIRE."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN , MATTHEW TRI TO MASK HIS SEXUALY AS HE TO SIGN PAPERWORK AT A NEW JOB, BUT DIALS UP TO 11 WHEN HE FDS OUT THE PERKS THAT E WH BEG THE PANY'S TOKEN "GAY HIRE" — PAID VATN TIME FOR ATLANTIS CIS, CIRCU PARTI, AND FOUR DIFFERENT PRI EVENTS, THE KEYS TO A FIRE ISLAND SHARE, A BMW, A MACBOOK, LUXURY TRAVEL ACMODATNS, AND A PUPPY TO HOLD SHIRTLS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"SUMMER IS HERE, YOU'RE STUCK AT WORK, AND ALL OF YOUR BT GAY IENDS ARE ON A SEEMGLY ENDLS YEAR-ROUND VATN," THE GUYS WRE. "THE BOYS OF COOL KID ADJACENT ARE HERE TO LET YOU ON A LTLE SECRET…"{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}CHECK OUT BELOW:{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:56.49999999999999%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
• THE POLIL PERKS OF BEG 'THE FIRST GAY PRINT'

9 ADVANTAGES OF BEING GAY

Society n be tough on you, stigma is high, and same-sex marriage has been a stggle, but beg gay is awome and here’s ne reasons why. The followg statement isn’t a fact, but ’s te town has an elm street, and nearly every cy has a boy’s gay guys are welg and iendly.

Wh so many guys who unrstand the stggle, you’ll fd yourself easily unrstood and accepted, for the most gay muny is full of rebels and stat quo breakers and you’ve had the goln ticket sce birth. They might be alg wh right now or they did the past, but you’ll fd that a lot of the issu around beg gay are all of them, but many.

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. In-pth qualative terviews were nducted wh an ethnilly diverse sample of 63 gay/bisexual male adolcents Chigo (N=42) and Miami (N=21). Data revealed two major nceptual tegori: 1) posive personal nceptualizatns of beg gay/bisexual, and 2) riliency the face of gay-related opprsn.

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.

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S., gay and bisexual dividuals reported higher equenci of day-to-day and lifetime discrimatn experienc as pared to their heterosexual unterparts. Rilienci and Copg Strategi among Gay/Bisexual YouthFew studi have specifilly foced on strengths and rilienci among LGB youth.

THE POLIL PERKS OF BEG 'THE FIRST GAY PRINT'

One study that addrsed this topic prented riliency strategi among lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) young people North Wt England and South Wal wh the ntext of hetero-normative environments (Surfield, Roen & McDermott, 2008).

Another study examg LGB youth rilienci foced on a sample of gay/bisexual male youth Puerto Ri (Toro-Alfonso, Diaz, Andujar-Bello & Niev-Rosa, 2006). The thors assert that even though the young men were livg a hetero-normative Puerto Rin culture wh pervasive homophobia and cultural stigma, they veloped riliency strategi that helped them to overe potential obstacl. This was one of the few studi found to prent riliency strategi veloped by gay/bisexual adolcents to bat negative social and cultural ntug rearch is need on the velopmental challeng faced by LGB adolcents, pecially those who are also members of other opprsed groups such as youth of lor, a parallel le of scientific quiry is also need to explore the strengths and rilienci monstrated by LGB youth.

Such limatns do not allow for a more nuanced unrstandg of the current lived experienc of LGB youth’s inty exploratn procs, as has been seen more recent qualative studi of sexual orientatn inty (Ja, Harper, Fernanz, & the ATN, 2009)The purpose of the current study is to provi sights to the posive nceptualizatns that gay/bisexual male adolcents posss regardg their sexual orientatn inty utilizg qualative phenomenologil and nstctivist ameworks. Although we did quire about the full range of perceptns and experienc related to sexual orientatn inty the larger study om which the data were extracted, we chose to foc solely on the posive aspects of posssg a gay/bisexual sexual orientatn inty for the current vtigatn given the lack of empiril data foced specifilly on riliency-related factors among gay/bisexual male adolcents.