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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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• MAN WHO FAKED BEG GAY TO GA LBIAN'S TST IS NVICTED OF RAPG HER
• 50 YEARS LATER, THE FILM GAY DECEIVERS IS STILL VERY GAY, VERY BAD
• THREE'S COMPANY MA ME THE GAY MAN I AM TODAY

CHRISTIAN MAN PRETENDS TO BE GAY FOR A YEAR, WR A BOOK ABOUT EXPERIENCE

Your iends, who might already spect that you’re gay, will get to know you on a eper level and likely feel much closer to you. 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.

MAN PRETENDS TO BE GAY FOR A YEAR

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.

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.

IS YOUR CHILD GAY?

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. 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.

TIMOTHY KUREK, STRAIGHT CHRISTIAN MAN, 'COM OUT' AND PRETENDS TO BE GAY FOR A YEAR

His regnn of that betrayal, he wr, led him to believe that “I need to e out of the closet as a gay man.

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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.

MAN WHO FAKED BEG GAY TO GA LBIAN'S TST IS NVICTED OF RAPG HER

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.

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.

50 YEARS LATER, THE FILM GAY DECEIVERS IS STILL VERY GAY, VERY BAD

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. In lookg refully at the childhoods of gay adults, rearchers are fdg an trigug set of behavral ditors that homosexuals seem to have mon.

THREE'S COMPANY MA ME THE GAY MAN I AM TODAY

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.

Although only 12 percent of the women grew up to be genr dysphoric (the unfortable sense that your blogil sex do not match your genr), the odds of the women reportg a bisexual or homosexual orientatn were up to 23 tim higher than would occur a general sample of young women.

Bailey and Zucker, who nducted a retrospective study which adults answered qutns about their past, revealed that 89 percent of randomly sampled gay men relled cross-sex-typed childhood behavrs exceedg the heterosexual median.