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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
* i just like you a gay myth review *
They reach an uneasy agreement to be “iends wh benefs”, to have no relatnship beyond iendship and the purely ’s unclear exactly which “gay myth” promised the tle the piece is explorg, but the spicn is that has somethg to do wh monogamy. 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. 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.
I JT LIKE YOU | A GAY MYTH
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.
10 ANTI-GAY MYTHS DEBUNKED
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.
TOP 5 MYTHS ABOUT GAY MEN
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. 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.