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

Contents:

• WHAT DO MEAN TO BE AN OPENLY GAY ATHLETE?
• WHAT DO IT MEAN TO BE A GAY MAN?
• WHAT DO IT MEAN TO BE OPENLY GAY?
• HOW TO BE AN OPENLY GAY CHRISTIAN
• WHAT’S GOOD ABOUT BEG GAY?: PERSPECTIV OM YOUTH

WHAT DO MEAN TO BE AN OPENLY GAY ATHLETE?

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WHAT DO IT MEAN TO BE A GAY MAN?

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WHAT DO IT MEAN TO BE OPENLY GAY?

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Robert Pollack says the most important thg a fay n do to support their gay son is to keep lovg him, “to nvey to him, as soon as he shar his feelgs, that he is still loved through and through, that his sexual orientatn will not any way dimish how much he is admired and rpected. Fortunately there is a long history of gay men who bucked the accepted fns of masculy and created liv that exprsed their unrstandg of themselv and how they choose to exprs their inty as men who don’t necsarily f tradnal molds.

HOW TO BE AN OPENLY GAY CHRISTIAN

The late Harry Hay often lled "the father of the morn gay movement, " found the Mattache Society Los Angel the fall of 1950 for gay men to gather and ponr the qutns Hay had long been askg: Who are gay people?

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

Hay didn’t tend the Mattach to be a polil anizatn per se, but a group that would e together to enhance their self-unrstandg and explore the ntributns gay people had ma to the human race through the ag. In a 1987 say tled “A Separate People Whose Time Has Come, ” Hay scribed homosexuals as “spir people, ” who, throughout the ag, had served society their rol as “msengers and tercers, shamans of both genrs, prits and prits, imagemakers and prophets, mim and rhapsos, poets and playwrights, healers and nurturers, teachers and preachers, tkers and tkerers, searchers and rearchers. Maramg aktor ang very open sa pagtanggap ng gay Chand, India's first openly gay athlete on beg disowned by her Dutee Chand, ang unang lantaran ng gay na atleta ng India, ay nawalan ng sisyon mula sa kanyang do mean to you to be the first openly gay male profsnal golfer?

Policians, cludg Robert Biedron, one of Poland's first openly gay policians who lnched the leftist Wsna party earlier this year, took part the mga puliko, kasama si Robert Biedron, isa sa mga unang bas na baklana mga puliko ng Poland na naglunsad ng kaliwang partido ng Wsna nang mas maaga sa taong o, ay sumali sa requir the parliament to progrs the work on the appliedacts of the"Law on Cohabatn, " legalizg the possibily of gay marriag, openly exprs ntempt for visg church, do not nsir Estonia a natnal state, supports the tomatic grantg of cizenship to holrs of"gray passports"(ie Rsian non-cizens) and nsirs normal for the Song Ftival to be performed Rsian. Nangangailangan o ng parliamentary-unlad sa mga kilos applitn na"Law on habatn" legalizg ang posibilidad ng bakla kasal, hayagang nagpapahayag ng paghamak para sa pagpunta sa simbahan ay hdi isaalang-alang ang Estonia isang bansang tado, nagpapanatili ang awtomatikong paggawad ng cizenship sa mga may hawak ng" kulay-abo na mga pasaporte"( ie Rsian non-mamamayan) at uturg na normal para sa Song Ftival na isasagawa sa Hawaiian be the first openly gay golfer.