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Contents:
- AT WHAT AGE DO KIDS INTIFY AS GAY?
- ‘I AM GAY – BUT I WASN’T BORN THIS WAY’
- AM I GAY?
- IS YOUR CHILD GAY?
- WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?
- HOW TO KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY
AT WHAT AGE DO KIDS INTIFY AS GAY?
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‘I AM GAY – BUT I WASN’T BORN THIS WAY’
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”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.
AM I GAY?
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IS YOUR CHILD GAY?
”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.
WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?
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.
HOW TO KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY
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.