An evangelil Christian om Tennsee has sparked ntroversy wh a new book about his experience pretendg to be a gay man for a year.
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- CHRISTIAN MAN PRETENDS TO BE GAY FOR A YEAR, WR A BOOK ABOUT EXPERIENCE
- MAN PRETENDS TO BE GAY FOR A YEAR
- IS YOUR CHILD GAY?
- TIMOTHY KUREK, STRAIGHT CHRISTIAN MAN, 'COM OUT' AND PRETENDS TO BE GAY FOR A YEAR
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CHRISTIAN MAN PRETENDS TO BE GAY FOR A YEAR, WR A BOOK ABOUT EXPERIENCE
* been pretending to be gay for 4 years *
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MAN PRETENDS TO BE GAY FOR A YEAR
Straight Christian Man Pretends To Be Gay For A Year * been pretending to be gay for 4 years *
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) - An evangelil Christian om Tennsee has sparked ntroversy wh a new book about his experience pretendg to be a gay man for a year. Kurek was home schooled, and was raised gog to a Christian Cub Sut troop, which tght him to be "wary of gays" acrdg to the article.
IS YOUR CHILD GAY?
What are the signs a guy is pretendg to be straight? The signs that a guy is gay n be obv at tim, but often they are more subtle. * been pretending to be gay for 4 years *
After disverg an LGBT equal rights group 2004, and stgglg wh his own iend's g out, he cid to be fake 'fake gay' 2009. "I feel for the gay muny of Nashville…and for every person who tsted Kurek enough to flirt wh him, " Amy Lieberman reacted on.
TIMOTHY KUREK, STRAIGHT CHRISTIAN MAN, 'COM OUT' AND PRETENDS TO BE GAY FOR A YEAR
Trence Callaga of Atlanta was nvicted of rapg a lbian he had met on a muter tra after pretendg to be gay to ga her tst, prosecutors said. * been pretending to be gay for 4 years *
One time a guy at school told me he was gay, and was the guy I jt so happened to have a csh on and I thought hey I might have a chance. WASHINGTON (CNN) — Timothy Kurek’s motivatn to spend a year pretendg to be gay n be boiled down to a simple nvictn: tak drastic change to alter eply held relig beliefs.
The experiment began on the first day of 2009; Kurek me out to his fay, got a job as a barista at a gay fé and enlisted the help of a iend to act as his boyiend public.
For Kurek, his year as a gay man radilly changed his view of fah and relign, while also teachg him “what meant to be a send-class cizen this untry.
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The Gay Deceivers was homophobic, juvenile, and, somehow, ahead of s time. * been pretending to be gay for 4 years *
Those views began to be challenged 2004, when he first enuntered Soulforce, a lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr civil rights group, on Liberty’s mp. His doubt about Christiany’s nmnatn of homosexualy, Kurek wr, was “perfected” 2008, when a close iend reunted the story of g out to her fay and beg disowned. His regnn of that betrayal, he wr, led him to believe that “I need to e out of the closet as a gay man.
MAN WHO FAKED BEG GAY TO GA LBIAN'S TST IS NVICTED OF RAPG HER
To ensure the pury of his project, Kurek says, he had to lie to his eply relig fay about beg gay, somethg that troubled him throughout the year. In the book, Kurek reunts learng that his mother wrote her journal that she would rather have been diagnosed wh ncer than have a gay son. “I feel for the gay muny of Nashville, and for every person who tsted Kurek enough to flirt wh him, hang out wh him, and nfi him about their liv, ” wrote Amy Lieberman on the blog Femistg.
In a Huffgton Post blog post tled “Pretendg To Be Gay Isn’t The Answer, ” Ey Timbol, a relign blogger, exprsed a siar opn: “What’s sad is that every teractn Timothy had durg his year pretendg was fake. While much of “The Cross the Closet” is about the stggle to unrstand the gay muny, which he tri to addrs by enlistg a iend to act as his boyiend, much of addrs how his former church’s muny — and fay — reacted to his new liftyle.
When Kurek’s mother told a iend her church that her son was gay, the person said Kurek’s sexualy uld jeopardize his mother’s standg the church.
50 YEARS LATER, THE FILM GAY DECEIVERS IS STILL VERY GAY, VERY BAD
Livg as a gay man jad him to relign, he says, though he has not surrenred all of his former beliefs. Both lbians and gay men often have a history of cross-sex-typed behavrs: ltle boys beg fatuated wh their mother's makp k; ltle girls enamored of field hockey or profsnal wrtlg. Prehomosexual boys tend to be more attracted to solary sports such as swimmg, cyclg and tennis than they are to rougher ntact sports such as football and soccer.
Children who show pronounced sex-atypil behavrs may have more of a geic loadg to their homosexualy. The behavral patterns are feared, loathed and often spoken of directly as harbgers of adult homosexualy. It is only relatively recently, however, that velopmental scientists have nducted ntrolled studi to intify the earlit and most reliable signs of adult homosexualy.
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In lookg refully at the childhoods of gay adults, rearchers are fdg an trigug set of behavral ditors that homosexuals seem to have mon. So on the basis of some earlier, shakier rearch, along wh a good dose of mon sense, Bailey and Zucker hypothized that homosexuals would show an verted pattern of sex-typed childhood behavrs—ltle boys preferrg girls as playmat and beg fatuated wh their mother's makp k; ltle girls strangely enamored of field hockey or profsnal wrtlg—that sort of thg.
Given that a small proportn of the populatn is homosexual, prospective studi require a large number of children.