This Amerin Psychologist reprt prents suggtns for avoidg heterosexual bias language ncerng lbians, gay men and bisexual persons.
Contents:
- ‘I AM GAY – BUT I WASN’T BORN THIS WAY’
- WATCH: ONE DIRECTN’S GAY ALTER EGO CALLS FOR ROMNEY’S FULL FRONTAL “DISCLOSURE”
- HOW TO ACCEPT THAT YOU ARE GAY
- FLORIDA ADVANC 'DON’T SAY GAY' BILL
- HAS DISNEY LOST ITS DIRECTN BY "NORMALIZG" GAY PEOPLE?
- NEVER ASK A GAY MAN FOR DIRECTNS
‘I AM GAY – BUT I WASN’T BORN THIS WAY’
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WATCH: ONE DIRECTN’S GAY ALTER EGO CALLS FOR ROMNEY’S FULL FRONTAL “DISCLOSURE”
* gay in the wrong direction *
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.
HOW TO ACCEPT THAT YOU ARE GAY
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.
” 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.
FLORIDA ADVANC 'DON’T SAY GAY' BILL
“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. ” 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.
”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.
HAS DISNEY LOST ITS DIRECTN BY "NORMALIZG" GAY PEOPLE?
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.
NEVER ASK A GAY MAN FOR DIRECTNS
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. “It don’t seem to matter as much whether or not people believe that gay people are born that way as do that they simply know someone who is currently gay, ” Allen spe of the studi, those who ph agast Born This Way narrativ have been heavily cricised by gay activists.