When I realized I was gay, all of that hatred that I showed to others turned on myself. I hate gay people, I am gay — th, I need to not be gay.
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GAY RIGHTS
The gay rights movement the Uned Stat began the 1920s and saw huge progrs the 2000s, wh laws prohibg homosexual activy stck down and a Supreme Court lg legalizg same-sex marriage. * gay struggle *
Sendly, ele learship enuraged members of their -groups to be more acceptg of gay and lbian Amerins, providg the example need to change attus. Although there are exampl of socially accepted homosexualy distant history, for most of morn history, gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr people faced tense prejudice.
They found that “heterosexuals who had experienced terpersonal ntact wh gay men or lbians exprsed signifintly more favorable general attus toward gay people than did heterosexuals whout ntact.
SELF-HATRED AND THE STGGL OF BEG GAY
Their rearch validated the strategy proposed by lears like the late Harvey Milk, an openly gay San Francis polician who urged gays and lbians to “e out” to their parents, neighbors, iends, and workers. In subsequent s, more and more heterosexual people me to disver how many of their loved and rpected iends, fay, and lleagu were gay or lbian.
HOW TO ACCEPT THAT YOU ARE GAY
“We pos that this is bee the Inter facilat workg and people-to-people munitn, which turn n brg about shifts societal views as people learn that people who are close to them may be gay, ” says Jenifer Whten Woodrg, a polil scientist at the Universy of Massachetts, Lowell, who helped nduct the study.