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Contents:
- ‘I AM GAY – BUT I WASN’T BORN THIS WAY’
- TELLG SOMEONE THEY DON’T ‘SEEM GAY’ IS NOT A PLIMENT
- HOW TO KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY
- IS HE GAY?
- HOW TO TELL IF YOUR GUY FRIEND IS GAY
- ARE HOMOPHOBIC PEOPLE REALLY GAY AND NOT ACCEPTG IT?
‘I AM GAY – BUT I WASN’T BORN THIS WAY’
* that doesn't seem very gay *
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TELLG SOMEONE THEY DON’T ‘SEEM GAY’ IS NOT A PLIMENT
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.
HOW TO KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY
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.
IS HE GAY?
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. 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.
HOW TO TELL IF YOUR GUY FRIEND IS GAY
” 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.
ARE HOMOPHOBIC PEOPLE REALLY GAY AND NOT ACCEPTG IT?
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