Another Gay Movie: An oral history

Contents:

• GAY B
• EQUAL RIGHT TO KISS? WHY YOU MAY BE DISGTED BY GAY BEHAVR WHOUT KNOWG IT
• A B GAY ED MEANG
• THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG
• 'WE'RE G FOR YOUR CHILDREN': SAN FRANCIS GAY MEN'S CHOS PH WOKE AGENDA
• A B GAY
• WHY ED SHEERAN THOUGHT HE WAS 'GAY FOR A B'
• HOW TO KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY
• "I'M GOG TO GIVE THEM THE GAYT MOVIE EVER MA": AN ORAL HISTORY OF ANOTHER GAY MOVIE

GAY B

If gay life was a giant ballroom (and kd of is), kky leathermen have been lgerg the back, the shadows, for generatns. Long before hookup apps like Grdr and Scff, gay and bisexual men seekg sual sex wore lored handkerchiefs their pant pockets ditg what kd of sex they were seekg and whether they were a domant/top or submissive/bottom.

The lor is pretty extensive and clus var kks and fetish, and is still ed today by gay clothg brands like Nasty Pig and CellBlock 13 — and, obvly, by kky gay men. Most prompts for gay porn, meanwhile, explibly flt to people of ambiguoly LatX scent wh an unrcut hairstyle. The Substance Abe and Mental Health Servic Admistratn (SAMHSA) today released a new data report Lbian, Gay, and Bisexual Behavral Health: Rults om the 2021 and 2022 Natnal Surveys on Dg Use and Health (PDF | 2.

EQUAL RIGHT TO KISS? WHY YOU MAY BE DISGTED BY GAY BEHAVR WHOUT KNOWG IT

1 MB), ditg that lbian, gay, and bisexual adults are more likely than straight adults to e substanc, experience mental health ndns cludg major prsive episos, and experience ser thoughts of suici.

A B GAY ED MEANG

“We know that statistilly, lbian, gay and bisexual Amerins face creased risks for mental health and substance e issu, which is often related to strs ed by stigma, discrimatn and harassment, ” said HHS Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use Miriam E. SAMHSA’s approach to addrsg the behavral health needs of LGBTQI+ people wh, affected by, or at risk for mental health and substance e ndns, builds on the Print’s Executive Orr on Advancg Equaly for Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer, and Intersex Individuals (EO 14075). Gay and bisexual mal and femal were two to three tim more likely than their straight unterparts to have ed illic dgs other than marijuana the past year.

THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG

About one third of bisexual femal, bisexual mal, and gay mal had a substance e disorr (SUD) the past year. The prevalence of ser mental illns (SMI) the past year was more than three tim higher among bisexual mal than among straight mal and more than twice as high among gay mal than among straight mal. All Post podstsThe Post's premier daily podst, featurg unparalleled reportg, expert sight and clear analysis, every weekday Reads: A gay uple ran a rtrant peace.

Saturday, July 15, 2023In the ty town of Plas, Va., the nservative Christian neighbors of the gay-owned Front Porch Market and Grill have been workg to shut down the rtrant. Acrdg to the Texas judicial missn’s 2019 warng, Hensley referred gay upl who wanted her to pri over their marriage ceremony to other people who would officiate. You might remember one specific moment where the tth about your sexualy sudnly h you — or, as one girl below put , her "Oh, sh*t, I'm gay" moment.

" — Josefa, 18"My 'Oh, sh*t, I'm gay' moment happened when I was 16 and watchg an Indiana Jon movie marathon. About halfway through high school, I got volved the LGBT+ muny when I beme open about my sexualy, and I learned about non-bary genrs and genrfluidy through my school's gay-straight alliance. She was gay and she would talk about one person or another that had feelgs for her, and at one pot I realized that I was one of those people.

'WE'RE G FOR YOUR CHILDREN': SAN FRANCIS GAY MEN'S CHOS PH WOKE AGENDA

” — Samantha, 21“I was always obssed wh the ‘gay’ characters on TV a way that wasn’t the same wh straight characters media. The first terpretatn of the Ganyme tale is born om the homosexual relatns that were acknowledged some ancient Greek stat. Even as they emphasised the Christian msage of this scene, homosexual artists of the Renaissance were not bld to the more obv meang of the Ganyme myth.

A B GAY

While many homosexual men had to rema gey about their love, there were some outspoken artists who were relatively open about their sir.

WHY ED SHEERAN THOUGHT HE WAS 'GAY FOR A B'

Today his works, cludg a patg of Ganyme before he is rried off, are some of the few ma by a homosexual artist that explore the psychology of gay men. Dpe the ubiquy of Ganyme wtern art, his populary fell away the late neteenth century favour of another symbol for homosexual love. It may be that openly displayg a work of Ganyme, wh all of s illic homosexual unrton, would too openly 'out' a llector as a Ganyme himself.

In one of the most famo portras of Wckelmann, the great art historian and homosexual n be seen proudly examg an engravg of a statue of Anto. In the 'Gay Corner' of the Congrsnal Cemetery Washgton, you will fd the name of Anto scribed on an obelisk unr the shady branch of a cherry tree. "Gay-iendly" people unnscly feel that two men kissg public is morally wrongWhile walkg through a park Budapt a few weeks ago, I spied a very strange sight.

And that’s when the sad tth stck me: wh the exceptn perhaps of jt a handful of plac the world (and even those are qutnable), gay upl are not ee to participate this most basic, mdls and normal exhibn of romantic behavr. Compared to the issue of gay marriage, gag equaly the “right” to display such nocent feelgs of affectn for one’s same-sex partner is an even greater hurdle for gay rights advot—and, many ways, ’s an even more important one.

HOW TO KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY

This is bee recent fdgs dite that changg negative attus toward gays begs not wh tn, per se, but stead wh exposg people more regularly to same-sex romantic, I know what you’re thkg. Not only do gay upl wish to avoid beg pummeled by the ocsnal homophobic thugs who n be lurkg anywhere or beg subjected to ephets sp at them by simplemd onlookers. And what mak the suatn plited is the fact that, although many people hold the explic belief that ’s okay for gay people to be affectnate wh one another public (that is to say, if you were to ask them whether ’s okay for gay people to kiss public, they’d say of urse is), the same people neverthels hold implic negative attus on the subject.

Half of the participants were asked to read a brief story about the director of a risqué mic vio which turned out to have the si-effect of enuragg gay men to French–kiss public. (Thk Katy Perry’s homoerotic “I Kissed a Girl” but, for this study, a male-on-male “I Kissed a Boy” equivalent.

) The remag participants read the same story, yet this other versn the vio was said to have ed straight upl to French–kiss public rather than gay men. It was strsed to participants both ndns that the director knew the vio was likely to duce public French–kissg but this was not his primary goal makg the participants were then asked the followg qutns: (1) Did the director tentnally enurage homosexual men [or straight upl] to French–kiss public?

"I'M GOG TO GIVE THEM THE GAYT MOVIE EVER MA": AN ORAL HISTORY OF ANOTHER GAY MOVIE

(3) Was wrong of the director to make a vio that he knew would enurage homosexual men [or straight upl] to French–kiss public?

And as predicted, the mostly llege-aged participants agreed that there’s nothg wrong wh eher straight or gay upl displayg this type of affectn public, nor, for that matter, was wrong for the director to enurage such behavr eher se.