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• GAY SUPPORT: WHERE TO FD LGBT HELP AND SUPPORT GROUPS
• LGBTQ+ SUPPORT, SUPPORT GROUPS, GAY SUPPORT ORGANIZATNS

GAY SUPPORT: WHERE TO FD LGBT HELP AND SUPPORT GROUPS

(LGBTQIA+) support n be extremely helpful for people but only if gay people feel fortable enough to get . One of the challeng reachg out for support if you're gay is that you may feel that others who are not gay will not unrstand your particular suatn.

The gay support groups n help people through the challeng associated wh gay discrimatn and stigma. Gay support n help someone alg wh issu anywhere along a ntuum - om the pot where they are qutng their sexualy through alg wh the challeng of possibly g out at work or stgglg wh gay relatnship issu. Beg gay, of urse, is not a mental illns, but support groups n often benef om profsnal learship.

LGBT fay and iend support groups n be found through this Gay Parent magaze directory or through PFLAG – Parents, Fay and Friends of Lbians and Gays. "Normalizg pronoun e for all genr inti⁠—not jt trans or nonbary folx—helps take away some of the burn and strs associated wh beg misgenred, " says Chs Needham, -owner of statnery pany Ash + Chs and -thor of The Gay Agenda.

LGBTQ+ SUPPORT, SUPPORT GROUPS, GAY SUPPORT ORGANIZATNS

"While havg a basic unrstandg of inti like 'gay, ' 'pansexual, ' and 'nonbary' is important, the stock fns are like a ZIP ; they give you only a general ia of someone's experience, " they expla. "Every person has their own experience of 'gay, ' 'pansexual, ' 'nonbary, ' or any other inty. LGBTQ+ support groups and gay support anizatns are cril, pecially for people who, ially, fd difficult to e out as gay and n benef om the support of others.

Gay support groups and anizatns work to support people of mory sexualy such as gay, lbian, queer, transgenr, and bisexual. Some gay support anizatns are specifilly dited to supportg dividuals while others foc on rights issu and gay polics as well.

Some people feel very alone when they e to the realizatn that they are gay, but the fact is, they are not alone.

In addn to puttg a person touch wh others like them, gay support groups also make people feel fortable knowg that when they share rmatn about themselv, they are tellg others who have lived the same experience.

In gay support groups, no one is judged for their sexualy and is only supported. For example, they are available any lotn, at any time of day and they n be the first step for those not prepared to talk face-to-face wh other gay dividuals yet. One place onle gay support groups n be found is through Thoands of people are members of the onle support groups which ver everythg om g out to parentg to beg transgenr.

Another onle gay muny is at Here, there are gay support groups, as well as plac to socialize.

The GLBT Natnal Help Center is a gay support anizatn that ns gay support helpl, gay youth support as well as peer-support chat and ntas a database of gay rourc. “A majory of all my iends that I was out wh as a gay man, then as transgenr, are all ceased.

“I was always straddlg the two very different worlds, ” Taylor said, “one where I had LGBTQ iends who were g out the theater partment and beg treated wh digny and rpect, and the other where I had teammat g homophobic and sexist language. If you want to be an LGBTQIA+ ally and you notice that a pany or bs is makg homophobic ments or donatg to anti-gay anizatns, you have the choice to stop supportg that bs. "Alli should stay rmed on the issu that are attackg our muny and stand wh , " says Joseph Oddo, board print of the Gay & Lbian Communy Center of Southern Nevada.

Brandon Ambroso argu that simplistic explanatns have ignored the fluid, shape-shiftg nature of our sir.“You n’t be gay.”She was on top of me.It wasn’t a mand —  was a challenge.

You so obvly nnot be gay, was her implitn, bee this is good sex.It was 2006, a full five years before Lady Gaga would set the Born This Way argument atop s unassailable cultural perch, but even then the popular unrstandg of orientatn was that was somethg you were born wh, somethg you uldn’t change. I me out at a nservative Christian llege the US and was a gay relatnship for around two years wh a basketball player who end up marryg a woman. Well, you mt have been gay the whole time, some might thk, and bee of some relig shame, you cid to lie to yourself and experiment wh a girl.

But what feels most accurate to say is that I’m gay – but I wasn’t born this way.Many people may fd their sir changg directn - and n't jt be explaed as experimentatn (Cred: Ignac Lehmann)In 1977, jt over 10% of Amerins thought gayns was somethg you were born wh, acrdg to Gallup.

Throughout the same perd, the number of Amerins who believe homosexualy is “due to someone’s upbrgg/environment” fell om jt unr 60% to 37%.The ias reached cril mass pop culture, first wh Lady Gaga’s 2011 Born This Way and one year later wh Macklemore’s Same Love, the chos of which has a gay person sgg “I n’t change even if I tried, even if I wanted to.” Vios started circulatg on the ter featurg gay people askg straight people “when they chose to be straight.” Around the same time, the Human Rights Campaign clared unequivolly that “Beg gay is not a choice,” and to claim that is “giv unwarranted crence to roundly disproven practic such as nversn or reparative therapy.”People who challenge the Born This Way narrative are often st as homophobic, and their thkg is nsired backwardAs Jane Ward not Not Gay: Sex Between Straight Whe Men, what’s tertg about many of the claims is how transparent their speakers are wh their polil motivatns. “Such statements,” she wr, “fe blogil acunts wh an obligatory and nearly ercive force, suggtg that anyone who scrib homosexual sire as a choice or social nstctn is playg to the hands of the enemy.” People who challenge the Born This Way narrative are often st as homophobic, and their thkg is nsired backward – even if they are themselv gay.Take, for example, Cynthia Nixon of Sex and The Cy fame.