Are you qutng your sexualy? Fd out if you’re gay, straight, bisexual, or asexual. Learn what the terms mean and if they apply to you.
Contents:
- WHAT DO IT MEAN TO BE A GAY MAN?
- HOW TO KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY
- WHAT DO IT MEAN TO BE GAY? DEFN AND MEANG OF GAY
- AM I GAY?
WHAT DO IT MEAN TO BE A GAY MAN?
What is gay? is not an unmon qutn. The fn of gay is not simple eher. Learn more about the fn and meang of gay. * be a gay *
Homosexualy refers to attractn between people who are the same sex.
It om the Greek word homos, meang “the same. People who are homosexual uld refer to themselv as gay, lbian, LGBTQ, queer, or a number of other terms.
HOW TO KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY
Many people who are gay velop feelgs for people of the same sex their teenage years.
There are many different synonyms for “homosexualy, ” as the term self is most mon synonym is “gay” or “lbian. ” Gay ually means a man beg attracted to another man, while lbian means a woman is attracted to another woman. “LGBTQ” is an acronym that stands for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, and qutng.
Unfortunately, there is a lot of homophobia the Uned Stat and around the world. In many untri, ’s illegal to be gay. People who are anti-gay have spread several harmful myths monizg homosexualy.
WHAT DO IT MEAN TO BE GAY? DEFN AND MEANG OF GAY
Among them clu:Myth 1: LGBTQ Members Make Bad ParentsMany people who are gay have lovg fai and raise happy, succsful children.
Myth 2: Beg Gay Is a Choice and Can Be FixedBeg gay is not a choice, or somethg that n be changed. The Amerin Medil Associatn is agast therapy that is “based on the assumptn that homosexualy is a mental disorr or that the person should change their ’s important to know that there is nothg wrong wh lovg people of the same genr as you. So many gay men grow up believg there is somethg “wrong” wh bee we are different om other supposedly “normal” mal.
It’s not surprisg that a term like “straight-actg” shows up so often gay men’s onle personal ads. It prumably means the advertiser nsirs himself a “real” man—real, that is, acrdg to a standard of masculy he don’t attribute to other gay men.
AM I GAY?
So many gay men learn we are different om other boys by havg the fact poted out and ridiculed by bulli durg our young, most imprsnable, years.
As every gay man knows who has been sulted or asslted for his actual or perceived sexual orientatn, there are steep penalti for vlatg the Boy Co as there are for anyone who is “different” om the prumed (typilly whe, heterosexual, middle-class) standard. How do a gay kid survive the trma he suffers for beg different a culture that still nmns his difference as somethg bad or “ls-than” and wants to mold him to the same shape tri to mold every boy?
Robert Pollack says the most important thg a fay n do to support their gay son is to keep lovg him, “to nvey to him, as soon as he shar his feelgs, that he is still loved through and through, that his sexual orientatn will not any way dimish how much he is admired and rpected.