What Life Was Like for Gay Amerins Before Stonewall

Contents:

• MIKE "THE SUATN" SORRENTO SOUNDS OFF ON HIS BROTHER COMG OUT AS GAY: "I CELEBRATED!"
• MIKE 'THE SUATN' SORRENTO SLAMS 'JERSEY SHORE' HOEMAT OVER GAY IMPLITNS
• GAY OR NOT GAY?: THE SUATN
• 'THEY BEAT YOU WH THEIR BATON': A VETERAN OF THE STONEWALL RTS AND THE FIRST PRI MARCH SHAR WHAT LIFE WAS LIKE FOR GAY AMERINS BEFORE THE UPRISG
• GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

MIKE "THE SUATN" SORRENTO SOUNDS OFF ON HIS BROTHER COMG OUT AS GAY: "I CELEBRATED!"

The term “homosexualy, ” while sometim nsired anachronistic the current era, is the most applible and easily translatable term to e when askg this qutn across societi and languag and has been ed other cross-natnal studi, cludg the World Valu Survey. Dpe major chang laws and norms surroundg the issue of same-sex marriage and the rights of LGBT people around the world, public opn on the acceptance of homosexualy society remas sharply divid by untry, regn and enomic velopment. For example, some untri, those who are affiliated wh a relig group tend to be ls acceptg of homosexualy than those who are unaffiliated (a group sometim referred to as relig “non”).

For example, Swen, the Netherlands and Germany, all of which have a per-pa gross domtic product over $50, 000, acceptance of homosexualy is among the hight measured across the 34 untri surveyed. The study is a follow-up to a 2013 report that found many of the same patterns as seen today, although there has been an crease acceptance of homosexualy across many of the untri surveyed both years. However, while took nearly 15 years for acceptance to rise 13 pots om 2000 to jt before the feral legalizatn of gay marriage June 2015, there was a near equal rise acceptance jt the four years sce legalizatn.

This staggerg 56-pot difference exceeds the next largt difference Japan by 20 pots, where 92% and 56% of those ag 18 to 29 and 50 and olr, rpectively, say homosexualy should be accepted by society.

MIKE 'THE SUATN' SORRENTO SLAMS 'JERSEY SHORE' HOEMAT OVER GAY IMPLITNS

In South Korea, for example, those who classify themselv on the iologil left are more than twice as likely to say homosexualy is acceptable than those on the iologil right (a 39-percentage-pot difference). In Spa, people wh a favorable opn of the Vox party, which recently has begun to oppose some gay rights, are much ls likely to say that homosexualy is acceptable than those who do not support the party. And Poland, supporters of the erng PiS (Law and Jtice), which has explicly targeted gay rights as anathema to tradnal Polish valu, are 23 percentage pots ls likely to say that homosexualy should be accepted by society than those who do not support the erng party.

GAY OR NOT GAY?: THE SUATN

But even untri like France and Germany where acceptance of homosexualy is high, there are differenc between supporters and non-supporters of key right-wg populist parti such as Natnal Rally France and Alternative for Germany (AfD). Relign, both as relat to relative importance people’s liv and actual relig affiliatn, also plays a large role perceptns of the acceptabily of homosexualy many societi across the globe. In 25 of the 34 untri surveyed, those who say relign is “somewhat, ” “not too” or “not at all” important their liv are more likely to say that homosexualy should be accepted than those who say relign is “very” important.

Among Israelis, those who say relign is not very important their liv are almost three tim more likely than those who say relign is very important to say that society should accept homosexualy.

For example, those who are religly unaffiliated, sometim lled relig “non, ” (that is, those who intify as atheist, agnostic or “nothg particular”) tend to be more acceptg of homosexualy.

'THEY BEAT YOU WH THEIR BATON': A VETERAN OF THE STONEWALL RTS AND THE FIRST PRI MARCH SHAR WHAT LIFE WAS LIKE FOR GAY AMERINS BEFORE THE UPRISG

Though the opns of religly unaffiliated people n vary wily, virtually every untry surveyed wh a sufficient number of unaffiliated rponnts, “non” are more acceptg of homosexualy than the affiliated. The "Jersey Shore" star has reportedly h back at hoemat Nile "Snooki" Polizzi and Jenni "JWoww" Farley after they speculated about his sexualy and hted he might be gay an terview wh HuffPost Gay Voic. The term was origally ed durg the late 1940s and early 1950s to distguish between homosexual behavr performed by heterosexuals social settgs and stutns that were predomately same-sex (such as prisons, barracks, naval vsels and boardg school) and those who were actually nsired to be homosexual.

Sexual orientatn is now unrstood to be fluid and non-bary (non-bary means not rtricted to two fixed and rigid tegori such as homosexual or heterosexual); the e of outdated terms to shield heterosexuals om the label of homosexualy may have been eful a prevly homophobic society, but currently only acts to rerce the heteronormative attus of the past. This is bee mak the assumptn that participants same-sex sexual activy would not have done so were not for their particular suatn and are, therefore, not really homosexual, an assumptn that should not be termed such a sual manner. Some sgle-sex environments that equently bee venu for suatnal homosexualy clu prisons, ary settgs, ships at sea, nvents and monasteri, athletic teams on tour, pornography and prostutn, and lleg.

GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

The “lbian until graduatn” label is based on a mon myth that llege mp are a hotspot for a nsirable number of femal to sexually experiment wh members of the same-sex, and then intify as homosexuals upon graduatg.

Addnally, although 13% of the female rponnts overall reported participatg a same-sex experience, only 1% intified as “gay” and 4% as “bisexual, ” suggtg a greater existence of sexual fluidy outsi of the llege atmosphere. One should never assume or imply that a llege female’s homosexual inty is temporary or due to a sire to avoid pregnancy, ward off male attentn, or eva “te” relatnships so that she n foc on her studi.

Suatnal homosexualy is most monly unrstood to be a rult of dividuals engagg homosexual behavr to experience sexual fulfillment an environment which they are prived of heterosexual partners.

1 The prison system is monly believed to be an environment where suatnal homosexualy is practiced as a means of sexual fulfillment, or as an assertn of power or stat over another dividual. Many mat believe that their cisn to participate homosexual behavr do not reflect their orientatn bee they n nvce themselv and others that they are still heterosexual, and only engagg such behavr bee they are prived of any oppose-sex partners.

3 This study nclud that those who ultimately refe same-sex partners, even suatns of extreme isolatn, are likely suated on one of the far ends of the ntuum pared to those self-intified heterosexual mat who choose to engage homosexual behavr. 1 Therefore, the social nstctnist approach explas why viewg suatnal homosexualy through this lens allows mat to feel more fortable explorg same-sex behavrs and ntribut to the exprsn and/or adoptn of a homosexual inty.