Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer (LGBTQ) Teens | ACOG

Contents:

• UNTTHS AND FACTS ABOUT PEOPLE WHO ARE GAY, LBIAN, OR BISEXUAL
• ‘I AM GAY – BUT I WASN’T BORN THIS WAY’
• WAS IT GOOD FOR THE GAYS: ‘THE HOURS’
• WHERE IS ILLEGAL TO BE GAY?
• CHANGG PERCEPTNS OF WHAT IS LIKE TO BE GAY MOSW – ONE TOUR AT A TIME
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER (LGBTQ) TEENS
• IS RUDY GAY A GOOD F?

UNTTHS AND FACTS ABOUT PEOPLE WHO ARE GAY, LBIAN, OR BISEXUAL

Fact: Psychologil rearch monstrat that emotnal problems are no more prevalent people who are Gay, Lbian, or Bisexual than they are people who are Straight. The Amerin Psychologil Associatn, Amerin Psychiatric Associatn, Amerin Medil Associatn, and Amerin Nurs Associatn all officially state that beg Gay, Lbian, or Bisexual is a normal variatn of human sexualy and do not imply mental illns of any kd. People who are Gay, Lbian, or Bisexual may have emotnal problem, however, bee of society’s hatred and tolerance of them.

Fact: People who are Gay, Lbian, Bisexual, or Straight have a range of sexual behavrs which range om promiscuy to strictly monogamo. Many people who are Gay, Lbian, or Bisexual, or Straight cherish and practice tradnal fay valu of support, love, unrstandg, mutual rpect, and muny.

‘I AM GAY – BUT I WASN’T BORN THIS WAY’

Fact: Children raised by parents who are Gay, Lbian, or Bisexual and children raised by parents who are Straight show no differenc between the two groups of children their telligence, psychologil adjtment, populary wh iends, velopment of sex role inty, or velopment of sexual orientatn. Fact: Often the story of Sodom and Gomarrah is ed to monstrate God’s rejectn of people who are Gay, Lbian, or Bisexual.

There are numero relig bodi which have polici and/or procr supportive of people who are Gay, Lbian, or Bisexual: Amerin Baptist Church, Discipl of Christ, Epispal Church, Metropolan Communy Church, Prbyterian Church, U. Untth: People who are Gay, Lbian, or Bisexual want to be treated like a mory, but they are not a mory as are People of Color.

Department of Jtice report stated that, “homosexuals are the most equent victims” of hate crim (U. Rearch shows that people may be born Gay, Lbian, Bisexual, or Straight and there is no reliable or valid method by which to make them otherwise. Untth: Homophobia and Biphobia are an appropriate rponse to people who are immoral, unnatural, and perverse.

WAS IT GOOD FOR THE GAYS: ‘THE HOURS’

Rearch shows that people who have homophobic and biphobic attus do not know or have never met a person who is Gay, Lbian, or Bisexual.

WHERE IS ILLEGAL TO BE GAY?

You so obvly nnot be gay, was her implitn, bee this is good was 2006, a full five years before Lady Gaga would set the Born This Way argument atop s unassailable cultural perch, but even then the popular unrstandg of orientatn was that was somethg you were born wh, somethg you uldn’t change. I me out at a nservative Christian llege the US and was a gay relatnship for around two years wh a basketball player who end up marryg a woman.

Well, you mt have been gay the whole time, some might thk, and bee of some relig shame, you cid to lie to yourself and experiment wh a girl.

But what feels most accurate to say is that I’m gay – but I wasn’t born this people may fd their sir changg directn - and n't jt be explaed as experimentatn (Cred: Ignac Lehmann)In 1977, jt over 10% of Amerins thought gayns was somethg you were born wh, acrdg to Gallup.

CHANGG PERCEPTNS OF WHAT IS LIKE TO BE GAY MOSW – ONE TOUR AT A TIME

Throughout the same perd, the number of Amerins who believe homosexualy is “due to someone’s upbrgg/environment” fell om jt unr 60% to ias reached cril mass pop culture, first wh Lady Gaga’s 2011 Born This Way and one year later wh Macklemore’s Same Love, the chos of which has a gay person sgg “I n’t change even if I tried, even if I wanted to. ” Vios started circulatg on the ter featurg gay people askg straight people “when they chose to be straight.

” Around the same time, the Human Rights Campaign clared unequivolly that “Beg gay is not a choice, ” and to claim that is “giv unwarranted crence to roundly disproven practic such as nversn or reparative therapy. ”People who challenge the Born This Way narrative are often st as homophobic, and their thkg is nsired backwardAs Jane Ward not Not Gay: Sex Between Straight Whe Men, what’s tertg about many of the claims is how transparent their speakers are wh their polil motivatns. “Such statements, ” she wr, “fe blogil acunts wh an obligatory and nearly ercive force, suggtg that anyone who scrib homosexual sire as a choice or social nstctn is playg to the hands of the enemy.

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER (LGBTQ) TEENS

” People who challenge the Born This Way narrative are often st as homophobic, and their thkg is nsired backward – even if they are themselv, for example, Cynthia Nixon of Sex and The Cy fame.

IS RUDY GAY A GOOD F?

In a 2012 terview wh New York Tim Magaze, the actrs sually mentned that homosexualy was, for her, a choice. “I unrstand that for many people ’s not, but for me ’s a choice, and you don’t get to fe my gayns for me. Callg me “idtic” and “patently absurd”, Aravosis wrote, “The gay haters at the relig right uldn’t have wrten any better.

”Gay rights do not have to hge on a geic explanatn for sexualy (Cred: Ignac Lehmann)For Aravosis, and many gay activists like him, the public will only accept and affirm gay people if they thk they were born gay.

Patrick Grzanka, Assistant Profsor of Psychology at Universy of Tennsee, for stance, has shown that some people who believe that homosexualy is nate still hold negative views of gays. In fact, the homophobic and non-homophobic rponnts he studied shared siar levels of belief a Born This Way Samantha Allen not at The Daily Beast, the growg public support for gays and lbians has grown out of proportn wh the rise the number of people who believe homosexualy is fixed at birth; would be unlikely that this small change opn uld expla the spike support for gay marriage, for stance.