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IS YOUR DAD GAY—OR ARE YOU A GAY DAD?
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Do Your Father Hunger Make You Gay?
From the ffee shop to the rearch lab, people have been tryg to figure out why men are gay for years.
Are people born gay or do the feelgs velop over time? It's still a mystery, but that don't stop rearchers and laymen alike om askg if our environments are to blame, as if beg gay is an afflictn that needs to be solved like a cycle of psychologists and ex-gay therapy groups often throw the claim that gay men long for other men out of a subnsc need to nnect wh an absent or lackg father.
I’M A GAY MAN WH DADDY ISSU
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Acrdg to theori, this "father hunger" is so strong that gay men ny their "natural" attractns and head toward the boy's room.
Let me answer before I'm misquoted (aga) by anti-gay groups: Not a chance! Real's work foc maly on male-female relatnships, but his study of straight men and father issu is key to knockg back claims that fatherls environments -- both leral and figurative -- breed gay men.
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"It illtrat that straight men have problems wh their fathers siar to those that gay men face. In other words, the father issu gay men face have ltle to do wh beg gay, but everythg to do wh growg up mal whout appropriate father figur. Unlike some gay men, I me out to him as retaliatn.
I saw hetero men through the ey of my father and other gay men through the ey of myself: perpetrator vers sence, my emotnally and often physilly missg and homophobic daddy ma me not want to be gay more than to fd a boy's hand to hold. Dpe longgs for closer relatnships wh their fathers, sex role theorist Michael Kimmel pots out that men (y, that's you, too, gay!
Straight men and some closeted gay men will try to prove that they are mascule and th not gay by overpensatg and attemptg to sleep wh women -- society's ultimate proof of manhood. What Kimmel is sentially sayg is that ias of masculy drive men to be homophobic.