Myths about gay men abound. Many of the myths are based on stereotyp. Here are the top 5 myths about gay men and the tth about them.
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5 MYTHS ABOUT GAY PEOPLE DEBUNKED
Myth: Lbian, gay and bisexual people n be intified by certa mannerisms or physil characteristics. People who are lbian, gay or bisexual e as many different shap, lors and siz as do people who are heterosexual. * gay misconceptions *
In a Febary poll, Gallup found that more people self-intified as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr – or “somethg other than heterosexual” – on an anonymo survey nducted 2021 than any other pot the last , a change largely driven by young people. Many lbian, gay and bisexual people have early heterosexual experienc, but are still lbian, gay or bisexual; many avowed heterosexuals have had sexual ntact wh members of their own sex, but are still heterosexual.
This victim-blamg posns LGBTQ2 youth as a problem that needs to be fixed, rather than focg on the environment of homophobia, transphobia, and heteronormativy that creat a climate where is OK to discrimate agast and target those who are perceived to be different. Siar tactics, for example, were ed to oppose the legalizatn of same-sex marriage Canada wh outlandish statements suggtg that legalizg gay marriage would lead to btialy and the llapse of the fay un – none of which, naturally, have e te. It is clear that the more supportive practic a school has place, such as prehensive LGBTQ2 polici, safe ntacts, and GSAs, the ls homophobic bullyg stunts experience and the more nnected and supported LGBTQ2 stunts feel.
Unrstandably, there were a lot of ridiculo misnceptns about the homosexual muny back then, but today there shouldn't be any exce -- we have openly gay celebri, policians, and plenty of well-wrten fictnal exampl pop culture to pick om. We live a world that ns on tailed mographic breakdowns -- we know roughly how many people have a fear of heights, or how many "people" like th cst pizza -- surely we uldn't be the dark about somethg as simple as how many of are gay, right? The problem is obv -- we're relyg on surveys an era when 's still not OK to be gay huge swaths of Ameri, let alone the rt of the world (for example, if we went purely by self-reportg, there has been only one gay player the 94 years the NFL has existed).
10 ANTI-GAY MYTHS DEBUNKED
Gay people have been acced of many stereotyp that are not te. Here are 5 myths about beg homosexual. * gay misconceptions *
In realy, studi show gay upl tend to tackle thgs like hoehold chor by jt dividg them up equally, rather than segregate them by genr, which actually leads to ls rentment between the partners (sce nobody is failg to fulfill an obligatn to some tradn). And, while all of that sounds obv when spelled out (pecially now, when 's actually OK to be a workg mom or stay-at-home dad) people still see a gay uple and try to figure out which one "wears the pants. It would therefore be easy to assume your average homosexual isn't a big fan of the Bible, or any holy text for that matter -- all three of the world's major religns, after all, basilly have "gays suck" wrten their rpective lebooks.
So add that to the number of relig groups blamg gay people for everythg om 9/11 to the g stctn of society, and 's only natural to assume that if relign hat gays so much, the feelg is fely mutual. And they're not as rare as you'd thk: 2009, the Christian anizatn Barna Group did a survey and nclud that 60 percent of gays and lbians nsir relign a huge part of their liv, spe the whole "havg pretty much everythg gog agast them" thg.
Obvly, beg a du who prais J and dat someone of the same name isn't always easy, but much like people who eat pork or shellfish, or who shave, lots of gays make work spe beg technilly nmned by the official lerature. Meanwhile, anizatns like the Evangelil Lutheran Church, the Prbyterian Church, and the Uned Church of Christ are apparently tryg to out-fab each other by acceptg as many as 46 gay misters at the same time. Two of the three thgs st money, so the msage here appears to be that beg gay is only for those who n afford -- which do make sense, bee aren't San Francis and New York, two of the world's gay headquarters, also two of the most expensive plac to live?
TOP 5 MYTHS ABOUT GAY MEN
Jt to show you how wispread the ia of gay people beg rich is: 1996, after failg to nvce the rt of the Supreme Court that Colorado's gay populace don't need to be protected om discrimatn, Jtice Anton Slia wrote his official dissent that "those who engage homosexual nduct tend to... As for how this particular myth got started, well, we've already tablished that the mographics of homosexualy are a plete unknown, due to the flaws of askg people to self-report on somethg that uld get the sh beaten out of them. Science officially says that you n totally turn gay or turn straight -- but no, don't mean you n ntrol , or that gay kids n be "cured" if you show them enough GIFs of Srlett Johansson nng or somethg.
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But the term has been reclaimed by many LGBT people, particularly those of a younger age, who feel empowered by many, 'queer' provis a particular eedom of exprsn that 'gay', 'lbian' bisexual' or 'trans' might not, and provis an inty that they feel relat to their LGBT people of dual inti might not feel that terms like 'gay' reprent them, bee of the historic prejudice that those people have faced wh 'gay' circl' is the se for many POC, which is why we often see the acronym QTPOC (Queer or Trans People Of Colour) ed njunctn wh or stead of LGBT Stonewall, we recently ma the cisn to expand our 'Some People Are...