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Contents:

• THE ONE WHERE YOUR YOUNG DGHTER CLAIMS TO BE GAY OUT OF SPE
• SOME GAYS CAN GO STRAIGHT, STUDY SAYS
• THE SIMPSONS IS GAY FOR MOLEMAN OUT OF SPE
• TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED
• 34 OF THE BT RPONS WHEN SOMEONE ASSUM AND CALLS YOU GAY
• EVANGELIL WOMAN CHOOS J OVER HER GAY SON AND TURNS HIM OVER TO THE DEVIL
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

THE ONE WHERE YOUR YOUNG DGHTER CLAIMS TO BE GAY OUT OF SPE

Spefully gay XD I end. I don’t unrstand what some ppl who mented (who have gay iends) are strsg about explag to their kids.. Maybe some kids would ask more qutns which se jt say somethg like “’s one of those thgs that jt is, if a boy se a nice and pretty girl he might like her, some girls like girls too for the same reasons, nobody knows why who lik who” and tbh sce science is not sure about the gay thg ’s hardly lyg to them that you n’t expla fully, surely kids ask a ton of thgs that nobody knows the answer to.

There is no nversatn que like the one that volv you tellg your mom and dad that you’re gay. Growg up queer often means not jt makg peace wh the genr of the person(s) makg you weak the kne but also wh the ia that you might be breakg your fay’s homophobic heart. But still, livg wh ternalised homophobia and rejectn at your doorstep often means havg to make difficult choic.

Hontly, if I am to face homophobic slurs anyway, I’d rather do om strangers than my own father. There’s a lot of queer media available today that n help ease the nversatn around homosexualy, at home. Try to make work, but if life gets sucky, then ’s time to plan an 2: Save some moneyIf there’s one arm-twistg method parents might e to extort the gay out of their kids, ’s the threat of cuttg away their money supply.

SOME GAYS CAN GO STRAIGHT, STUDY SAYS

But India’s ep-seated homophobia meant that the duo—like many other queer sis—found their safe space another untry. [RELATED: "30 Kky Terms Every Gay Man Needs to Know"]Our relatnship had started more than a year earlier wh tense monthly BDSM play ssns.

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THE SIMPSONS IS GAY FOR MOLEMAN OUT OF SPE

Tom of Fland’s 1970s drawgs of biker boys, clad impossibly form-ftg leather, solidified leather as a staple of gay culture. Also lled klismaphilia, enema fetish are monly explored amatr gay and straight porn.

Beards are so sexually charged and erotilly ialized among today’s scffier populatns of gay men that one might fet the fact that beards are still, technilly, fetish objects. Coprophilia is sexual stimulatn om fec, and while the general populatn’s rponse to is bound to be pretty strong, this fetish is more mon than you might spect, particularly among gay pig players, fistg enthiasts, and kky leather men. Dpe s populary wh a more niche sectn of the gay male populatn, is generally nsired an unhygienic fetish to explore, sce handlg and nsumg human fel matter rri wh certa health risks.

Proment gay clothg brands like Nasty Pig and Cellblock 13 draw their sign spiratn om tried-and-te sports wear, and standard gay circu attire will always feature a pair of football pants wh the ont lacg beckongly open.

TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED

Also lled chronophilia (and sometim ageism), the fetishizatn of age is a hotly bated topic gay culture. [RELATED: "30 Kky Terms Every Gay Man Needs to Know"]. May 9, 2001 -- Can gay men and women bee heterosexual?

Crics, though, say the study's subjects may be ludg themselv and that the subject group was scientifilly valid bee many of them were referred by anti-gay relig Robert Spzer, a psychiatry profsor at Columbia Universy, said he began his study as a skeptic — believg, as major mental health anizatns do, that sexual orientatn nnot be changed, and attempts to do so n even e Spzer's study, which has not yet been published or reviewed, seems to dite otherwise.

Spzer says he spoke to 143 men and 57 women who say they changed their orientatn om gay to straight, and nclud that 66 percent of the men and 44 percent of women reached what he lled good heterosexual functng — a staed, lovg heterosexual relatnship wh the past year and gettg enough emotnal satisfactn to rate at least a seven on a 10-pot said those who changed their orientatn had satisfyg heterosexual sex at least monthly and never or rarely thought of someone of the same sex durg also found that 89 percent of men and 95 percent of women were bothered not at all or only slightly by unwanted homosexual feelgs. However, only 11 percent of men and 37 percent of women reported a plete absence of homosexual ditors.

34 OF THE BT RPONS WHEN SOMEONE ASSUM AND CALLS YOU GAY

Spzer argu that highly motivated gays n fact change that preference — wh a lot of Study, Old DebateBut crics have challenged the study, even before was formally unveiled at today's ssn of the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn's annual meetg New Orleans, which was jammed wh televisn meras reportg on the prentatn.

Ariel Shidlo and Michael Shroer, two psychologists private practice New York Cy, found that of 215 homosexual subjects who received therapy to change their sexual orientatn, the majory failed to do so.

"Hurt by TherapySpzer don't qutn that many gay people have been hurt by therapy.

EVANGELIL WOMAN CHOOS J OVER HER GAY SON AND TURNS HIM OVER TO THE DEVIL

"There's no doubt that many homosexuals who have been unsuccsful and, attemptg to change, bee prsed and their life be worse, " he said. "In fact, he said, many of his subjects had been sponnt and even suicidal themselv, for the oppose reason — "precisely bee they had prevly thought there was no hope for them, and they had been told by many mental health profsnals that there was no hope for them, they had to jt learn to live wh their homosexual feelgs. "He said some velop such tremendo strs that they bee chronilly prsed, socially whdrawn or even Spzer says his study shows that some homosexuals makg some effort, ually for a few years, make the change.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

"We found that women our sample moved om a ls extreme homosexual to a more heterosexual level than did men, " Spzer says. Halman, however, noted that some 43 percent of those sampled were referred by relig groups that nmn homosexualy.

Another 23 percent were referred by the Natnal Associatn for Rearch and Therapy of Homosexualy, which says most of s members nsir homosexualy a velopmental disorr. "The sample is terrible, totally tated, totally unreprentative of the gay and lbian muny, " said David Ellt, a spokman for the Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force Spzer says while the people his sample were unual — more relig than the general populatn — don't mean their experienc n be dismissed.