Myths about gay men abound. Many of the myths are based on stereotyp. Here are the top 5 myths about gay men and the tth about them.
Contents:
- EDBURGH FTIVAL FRGE REVIEWS: BOLERO – EXTENDED | THE DAN DAW SHOW | I JT LIKE YOU | A GAY MYTH | KAREN OM FANCE IS OUT OF OFFICE | THE INTERVENTN | PAYDAY PARTY | A WIL LIFE | TROUBLE ON SIX | DOLL | TAL OF VOM, TRASH AND BROKEN GLASS | THE LACEHOE
- I JT LIKE YOU | A GAY MYTH
- 10 ANTI-GAY MYTHS DEBUNKED
- TOP 5 MYTHS ABOUT GAY MEN
EDBURGH FTIVAL FRGE REVIEWS: BOLERO – EXTENDED | THE DAN DAW SHOW | I JT LIKE YOU | A GAY MYTH | KAREN OM FANCE IS OUT OF OFFICE | THE INTERVENTN | PAYDAY PARTY | A WIL LIFE | TROUBLE ON SIX | DOLL | TAL OF VOM, TRASH AND BROKEN GLASS | THE LACEHOE
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That the “world of hook-ups and sual sex” which the acpanyg lerature says the play habs isn’t the only space a gay relatnship might hab, pecially as matur om fun to somethg more pair’s relatnship is followed through a succsn of scen over time, as they date, spl, rne, and the balance of affectn shifts between them. And that film was tragilly John Schlger's fal film, the Madonna-Rupert Everett disaster The Next Bt Thg, which I remember now primarily for allowg the late, great film cric Roger Ebert to wre one of my favoure of his zgers: "The Next Bt Thg is a garage sale of gay issu, harnsed to a plot as exhsted as a junkman's horse. Directed by the openly gay Greg Berlanti, who's probably bt known for producg sentially every show on The CW as of late (serly: Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, Legends of Tomorrow, Black Lightng and Riverdale), Love, Simon offers perhaps the most privileged g out narrative of all time.
I JT LIKE YOU | A GAY MYTH
Ever sce born-aga sger and orange juice pchwoman Ana Bryant helped kick off the ntemporary anti-gay movement some 40 years ago, hard-le elements of the relig right have been searchg for ways to monize gay people — or, at a mimum, to fd arguments that will prevent their normalizatn society. But addn to hawkg that myth, the legns of anti-gay activists who followed have add a panoply of others, rangg om the extremely doubtful claim that sexual orientatn is a choice, to unalloyed li like the claims that gay men molt children far more than heterosexuals or that hate crime laws will lead to the legalizatn of btialy and necrophilia.
Depictg gay men as a threat to children may be the sgle most potent weapon for stokg public fears about homosexualy — and for wng electns and referenda, as Ana Bryant found out durg her succsful 1977 mpaign to overturn a Da County, Fla., ordance barrg discrimatn agast gay people. Gregory Herek, a profsor at the Universy of California, Davis, who is one of the natn's leadg rearchers on prejudice agast sexual mori, reviewed a seri of studi and found no evince that gay men molt children at higher rat than heterosexual men. The Amerin Amy of Child & Adolcent Psychiatry affirmed 2013 that “[c]urrent rearch shows that children wh gay and lbian parents do not differ om children wh heterosexual parents their emotnal velopment or their relatnships wh peers and adults” and they are “not more likely than children of heterosexual parents to velop emotnal or behavral problems.
The Amerin Amy of Pediatrics (AAP) a 2002 policy statement clared: "A growg body of scientific lerature monstrat that children who grow up wh one or two gay and/or lbian parents fare as well emotnal, gnive, social, and sexual functng as do children whose parents are heterosexual. The Amerin Psychiatric Associatn noted a 2000 fact sheet available on the Associatn of Gay and Lbian Psychiatrists, that alg wh gay, lbian and bisexual issu, that sexual abe do not appear to be any more prevalent among children who grow up and intify as gay, lbian or bisexual than children who grow up and intify as heterosexual. Siarly, the Natnal Organizatn on Male Sexual Victimizatn not on s webse that "experts the human sexualy field do not believe that premature sexual experienc play a signifint role late adolcent or adult sexual orientatn" and add that 's unlikely that anyone n make another person gay or heterosexual.
10 ANTI-GAY MYTHS DEBUNKED
Anti-LGBT anizatns, seekg to promote heterosexualy as the healthier "choice, " often offer up the purportedly shorter life spans and poorer physil and mental health of gays and lbians as reasons why they shouldn't be allowed to adopt or foster children. Anti-LGBT anizatns have also tried to support this claim by distortg the work of legimate scholars, like a 1997 study nducted by a Canadian team of rearchers that alt wh gay and bisexual men livg Vanuver the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Anti-gay activists, who have long opposed addg LGBT people to those protected by hate crime legislatn, have repeatedly claimed that such laws would lead to the jailg of relig figur who preach agast homosexualy — part of a bid to ga the backg of the broar relig muny for their posn.
Anti-gay groups have been adamantly opposed to allowg gay men and lbians to serve openly the armed forc, not only bee of their purported fear that bat reads will be unrmed, but bee the ary has long been nsired the purt merocracy Ameri (the armed forc were succsfully racially tegrated long before Amerin civil society, for example).
TOP 5 MYTHS ABOUT GAY MEN
At the same time, gays and lbians have served openly for years the armed forc of 25 untri (as of 2010), cludg Bra, Israel, South Ai, Canada and Atralia, acrdg to a report released by the Palm Center, a policy thk tank at the Universy of California at Santa Barbara. Dpe the fact that gay men and lbians have been servg openly the ary sce September 2011, anti-LGBT groups ntue to claim that openly gay personnel are g problems the ary, cludg claims of sexual abe by gay and lbian soldiers of straight soldiers. Though is te that LGBT people tend to suffer higher rat of anxiety, prsn, and prsn-related illns and behavrs like alhol and dg abe than the general populatn, that is due to the historil social stigmatizatn of homosexualy and vlence directed at LGBT people, not bee of homosexualy self.
A report prented by the Council on Scientific Affairs to the AMA Hoe of Delegat Interim Meetg wh regard to reparative (“ex-gay”) therapy noted that most of the emotnal disturbance gay men and lbians experience around their sexual inty is not based on physlogil , but rather on “a sense of alienatn an unacceptg environment.
Mark Hatzenbuehler, a socmedil scienc profsor at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia Universy, said that the data gathered the study suggts that “sexual mori livg muni wh high levels of anti-gay prejudice have creased risk of mortaly, pared to low-prejudice muni. Qazi Rahman, study -thor and a leadg scientist on human sexual orientatn, said: "This study puts ld water on any ncerns that we are lookg for a sgle 'gay gene' or a sgle environmental variable which uld be ed to 'select out' homosexualy — the factors which fluence sexual orientatn are plex.