10 Anti-Gay Myths Debunked | Southern Poverty Law Center

Contents:

• K-POP'S FIRST OPENLY GAY ARTIST IS FDG FAM AND FANS IN CONSERVATIVE SOUTH KOREA
• STEP-BY-STEP INSTCTNS FOR SHOOTG YOUR SHOT WH GAY GUYS
• WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?
• PSY LGBT OU PSY GAY à PARIS
• HOW TO KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY
• APA’S GUIL FOR PSYCHOTHERAPY WH LBIAN, GAY AND BISEXUAL CLIENTS: THE FUNDAMENTALS FOR PRACTICE
• 10 ANTI-GAY MYTHS DEBUNKED
• DON CLARK ON PSYCHOTHERAPY WH GAY CLIENTS
• PSY WIKI, HEIGHT, NET WORTH, GIRLIEND, HEIGHT, REAL NAME, IS HE GAY?
• BANNED OM FACEBOOK, THE NEW STORI OF EX-GAY HERO ARE AVAILABLE HERE:
• STOP SAYG “THAT’S SO GAY!”: 6 TYP OF MICROAGGRSNS THAT HARM LGBTQ PEOPLE
• CLDIA CAPIZZI-GAY PSY D
• THE WOKE GAY MEN’S CHOS PSY-OP WON’T CONVERT YOUR CHILDREN
• 'I WAS SHOCKED WAS SO EASY': ​MEET THE PROFSOR WHO SAYS FACIAL REGNN ​​N TELL IF YOU'RE GAY
• ISSU PSYCHOTHERAPY WH LBIAN AND GAY MEN: A SURVEY OF PSYCHOLOGISTS

K-POP'S FIRST OPENLY GAY ARTIST IS FDG FAM AND FANS IN CONSERVATIVE SOUTH KOREA

LGBTQ-affirmative therapists will be versed the negative effects of homophobia, biphobia, transphobia, and heteronormativy (the assumptn that heterosexualy is “normal” and superr) and help clients navigate the challeng they prent—as well as relatnship problems, fay tensn, or other day-to-day ncerns for which a client might seek are the advantag of seeg an LGBTQ-iendly therapist?

Selmys flatly asserts that she “won’t e the word normal” reference to “heterosexual functng” as Latkovic did when amg his assertn that “[t]oday, of urse, the majory of psychologists and mental health re profsnals ny that there is anythg abnormal about homosexualy.

By ptg the “ncept of homosexualy” as arisg om “morn psychology” agast her claim that Church teachg prr to this was all about “ss” and “acts” rather than persons, she seems to acce Latkovic of embracg the morn-psych view of “homosexual” and “heterosexual” as “discreet sexual speci of person.

STEP-BY-STEP INSTCTNS FOR SHOOTG YOUR SHOT WH GAY GUYS

Today, the Church provis a badly need ntext for the re of the human person when she ref to nsir the person as a “heterosexual” or a “homosexual” and sists that every person has a fundamental Inty: the creature of God, and by grace, his child and heir to eternal life. C’t un thérapte qui nna la culture LGBT, l styl vie et l pratiqu somm to s être humas uniqu et s personn différent, et s’il n’y a pas « une » vie gay, il y a je pense, s styl vie qui rassemblent s personn homo ou bi tour préférenc, loisirs et pratiqu. Chacun pt à un moment ou un tre renntrer s difficultés et aller voir un psy pour surmonter un passage à y a tant suatns différent qui vent à manr l’ai qu’on so homo, bi, trans: un mal-être persistant, l’angoisse, la tristse, la fatigue, s troubl sexuels, un sentiment solu ou d’isolement… l’time soi affaiblie par s sentiments honte ou culpabilé ou enre la vlence ntre soi ou ntre l tr, s portements à risque, s addictns qui enferment votre vie (drogu, alol, sexe …)Un psy vo aira à faire le pot sur ce que vo vivez, à clarifier et explorer vos sentiments, vos bos pour vo prendre profondément et vo accepter tel que vo êt psy gay, un thérapte LGBT qui s’engage à vos côtés dans votre développement personnel pt faciler vos réflexn sur vo même et sur tout l problématiqu lié à l’orientatn sexuelle, à l’homophobie, à la séroposivé…J’évoque le sujet la séroposivé parce que l personn séroposiv sont pl nombrs en France dans la populatn qui a une orientatn sexuelle homo.

WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?

Parfois c sont l fal, l parents, l enfants ou l njots qui ont bo d’être éutés et un psy avec une sensibilé gay ou LGBT pt faciler cette prise entretien j’accueille to c thèm que vo apportez ou souhaez travailler:l’inté sexuelle, le g out, l’homoparentalé, la discrimatn s homos, l troubl sexuels, cx du désirs et cx du rps me l troubl l’érectn, l addictns…Comment trouver un psy LGBT ou un psy gay iendly? Vo pouvez vo renseigner près la fédératn et s centr LGBT ou vo pouvez terrogez vos amis… et n’oubliez pas que choisir un psy t toujours une affaire ce thème psy gay, déuvrez également un article sur mon blog:L ados et l’inté sexuelle.

PSY LGBT OU PSY GAY à PARIS

The LGB Guil at a Glance The “Guil for psychotherapy wh lbian, gay and bisexual clients” (APA, 2000) were created to help psychologists intify the fundamental issu unique to the asssment and treatment of LGB dividuals, upl, and fai. Ever sce born-aga sger and orange juice pchwoman Ana Bryant helped kick off the ntemporary anti-gay movement some 40 years ago, hard-le elements of the relig right have been searchg for ways to monize gay people — or, at a mimum, to fd arguments that will prevent their normalizatn society. But addn to hawkg that myth, the legns of anti-gay activists who followed have add a panoply of others, rangg om the extremely doubtful claim that sexual orientatn is a choice, to unalloyed li like the claims that gay men molt children far more than heterosexuals or that hate crime laws will lead to the legalizatn of btialy and necrophilia.

Depictg gay men as a threat to children may be the sgle most potent weapon for stokg public fears about homosexualy — and for wng electns and referenda, as Ana Bryant found out durg her succsful 1977 mpaign to overturn a Da County, Fla., ordance barrg discrimatn agast gay people. Gregory Herek, a profsor at the Universy of California, Davis, who is one of the natn's leadg rearchers on prejudice agast sexual mori, reviewed a seri of studi and found no evince that gay men molt children at higher rat than heterosexual men. The Amerin Amy of Child & Adolcent Psychiatry affirmed 2013 that “[c]urrent rearch shows that children wh gay and lbian parents do not differ om children wh heterosexual parents their emotnal velopment or their relatnships wh peers and adults” and they are “not more likely than children of heterosexual parents to velop emotnal or behavral problems.

The Amerin Amy of Pediatrics (AAP) a 2002 policy statement clared: "A growg body of scientific lerature monstrat that children who grow up wh one or two gay and/or lbian parents fare as well emotnal, gnive, social, and sexual functng as do children whose parents are heterosexual.

HOW TO KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY

The Amerin Psychiatric Associatn noted a 2000 fact sheet available on the Associatn of Gay and Lbian Psychiatrists, that alg wh gay, lbian and bisexual issu, that sexual abe do not appear to be any more prevalent among children who grow up and intify as gay, lbian or bisexual than children who grow up and intify as heterosexual.

Siarly, the Natnal Organizatn on Male Sexual Victimizatn not on s webse that "experts the human sexualy field do not believe that premature sexual experienc play a signifint role late adolcent or adult sexual orientatn" and add that 's unlikely that anyone n make another person gay or heterosexual.

Anti-LGBT anizatns, seekg to promote heterosexualy as the healthier "choice, " often offer up the purportedly shorter life spans and poorer physil and mental health of gays and lbians as reasons why they shouldn't be allowed to adopt or foster children.

APA’S GUIL FOR PSYCHOTHERAPY WH LBIAN, GAY AND BISEXUAL CLIENTS: THE FUNDAMENTALS FOR PRACTICE

On the basis of the same obuari, Cameron also claimed that gay men are 18 tim more likely to die r accints than heterosexuals, 22 tim more likely to die of heart attacks than wh, and 11 tim more likely than blacks to die of the same e. Anti-LGBT anizatns have also tried to support this claim by distortg the work of legimate scholars, like a 1997 study nducted by a Canadian team of rearchers that alt wh gay and bisexual men livg Vanuver the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Anti-gay activists, who have long opposed addg LGBT people to those protected by hate crime legislatn, have repeatedly claimed that such laws would lead to the jailg of relig figur who preach agast homosexualy — part of a bid to ga the backg of the broar relig muny for their posn.

10 ANTI-GAY MYTHS DEBUNKED

Anti-gay groups have been adamantly opposed to allowg gay men and lbians to serve openly the armed forc, not only bee of their purported fear that bat reads will be unrmed, but bee the ary has long been nsired the purt merocracy Ameri (the armed forc were succsfully racially tegrated long before Amerin civil society, for example). At the same time, gays and lbians have served openly for years the armed forc of 25 untri (as of 2010), cludg Bra, Israel, South Ai, Canada and Atralia, acrdg to a report released by the Palm Center, a policy thk tank at the Universy of California at Santa Barbara. Dpe the fact that gay men and lbians have been servg openly the ary sce September 2011, anti-LGBT groups ntue to claim that openly gay personnel are g problems the ary, cludg claims of sexual abe by gay and lbian soldiers of straight soldiers.

DON CLARK ON PSYCHOTHERAPY WH GAY CLIENTS

Though is te that LGBT people tend to suffer higher rat of anxiety, prsn, and prsn-related illns and behavrs like alhol and dg abe than the general populatn, that is due to the historil social stigmatizatn of homosexualy and vlence directed at LGBT people, not bee of homosexualy self.

PSY WIKI, HEIGHT, NET WORTH, GIRLIEND, HEIGHT, REAL NAME, IS HE GAY?

A report prented by the Council on Scientific Affairs to the AMA Hoe of Delegat Interim Meetg wh regard to reparative (“ex-gay”) therapy noted that most of the emotnal disturbance gay men and lbians experience around their sexual inty is not based on physlogil , but rather on “a sense of alienatn an unacceptg environment.

Mark Hatzenbuehler, a socmedil scienc profsor at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia Universy, said that the data gathered the study suggts that “sexual mori livg muni wh high levels of anti-gay prejudice have creased risk of mortaly, pared to low-prejudice muni. Qazi Rahman, study -thor and a leadg scientist on human sexual orientatn, said: "This study puts ld water on any ncerns that we are lookg for a sgle 'gay gene' or a sgle environmental variable which uld be ed to 'select out' homosexualy — the factors which fluence sexual orientatn are plex. The Amerin Amy of Pediatrics stated 1993 (updated 2004) that “homosexualy has existed most societi for as long as rerd scriptns of sexual beliefs and practic have been available” and that even at that time, “most scholars the field state that one’s sexual orientatn is not a choice … dividuals do not choose to be homosexual or heterosexual.

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A number of "ex-gay" relig mistri have spng up recent years wh the aim of teachg gay people to bee heterosexuals, and the have bee prime purveyors of the claim that gays and lbians, wh the aid of mental therapy and Christian teachgs, n "e out of homosexualy. Dpe the persistence of stereotyp that portray lbian, gay, and bisexual people as disturbed, several s of rearch and clil experience have led all mastream medil and mental health anizatns this untry to nclu that the orientatns reprent normal forms of human experience.

Helpful rpons of a therapist treatg an dividual who is troubled about her or his same sex attractns clu helpg that person actively pe wh social prejudic agast homosexualy, succsfully rolve issu associated wh and rultg om ternal nflicts, and actively lead a happy and satisfyg life. The phrase “g out” is ed to refer to several aspects of lbian, gay, and bisexual persons’ experienc: self-awarens of same-sex attractns; the tellg of one or a few people about the attractns; wispread disclosure of same-sex attractns; and intifitn wh the lbian, gay, and bisexual muny. Lbian, gay, and bisexual youth who do well spe strs—like all adolcents who do well spe strs—tend to be those who are socially petent, who have good problem-solvg skills, who have a sense of tonomy and purpose, and who look forward to the future.

STOP SAYG “THAT’S SO GAY!”: 6 TYP OF MICROAGGRSNS THAT HARM LGBTQ PEOPLE

If they are a heterosexual relatnship, their experienc may be que siar to those of people who intify as heterosexual unls they choose to e out as bisexual; that se, they will likely face some of the same prejudice and discrimatn that lbian and gay dividuals enunter. "RW: If you were Guaranteed, if you're homosexual, bee the law scrib homosexualy as crimal, the church scrib as sful, and psychology scrib as a mental illns, you're gog to be tossed out bee 's moral Well, when I was takg abnormal psychology graduate school 1971, was still the DSM-II as a mental illns, right between alholism and personaly disorr.

CLDIA CAPIZZI-GAY PSY D

DC: I thk the first public appearance about , per se, was here San Francis at a Wtern Stat Psychology nference, and I was the new kid town, but the word got around fast, I had e out, and I had left the universy and e to San Francis specifilly bee I had cid to start a full-time private practice voted to gay Were you the first San Francis? I didn't know I was gog to say actually, until I got up, and as I stood ont of the microphone, before I had said anythg, I looked at the dience, and what I saw was a big room, packed wh about 250 people who were very terted what homosexual people might be Wow, big Well attend. Durg that time, I joed a mtee that was workg wh the San Francis mental health associatn, or the unty mental health associatn I thk, workg on this problem, tryg to figure out if homosexualy might possibly be nsired not a mental illns.

THE WOKE GAY MEN’S CHOS PSY-OP WON’T CONVERT YOUR CHILDREN

It is as if the gay child is the rult of havg an egg om outer space planted the utes of the mother, and then appears lookg jt like the people who live on this pla, and grows up, velops, but all that time somethg different is happeng si this person; and he or she unrstands early not to let show, or not to let show enough that he or she will get to trouble bee of . Eight: A gay person who is rpected and loved, but who is hidg his or her te gay inty and facg what she or he believ would be a ed life, if the tth were to be disvered, is at a high risk for a fatal accint, or a seemgly explible suici. And you n't have genue empathy if you don't know anythg about the world this person me Well, you know there is such a big range, om low to high, of empathy or experience wh gay people, wh a distributn of therapists, as well as a range of how much a therapist has examed his/her own homophobia, so, is nfg to me for you to say that you feel like gay people should only see gay therapists.

'I WAS SHOCKED WAS SO EASY': ​MEET THE PROFSOR WHO SAYS FACIAL REGNN ​​N TELL IF YOU'RE GAY

One of the reasons why was important for me to study microaggrsns agast lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer and qutng (LGBTQ) people was bee I knew that this type of discrimatn existed and bee I hypothized that they had a signifint impact on the liv of LGBTQ people, particularly on their mental health and inty velopment. Whatever is sh**y and crgy and reprsive and weak about liberal polics, fds s lowt pot gay stutnal polics… cultural left the Uned Stat has a longer list of l of how you n date, how you n f**k, how you n do this and that than the Pope do wh his encyclils. Although a person’s sexual or romantic orientatn or genr inty may not be a source of distrs, people who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, qutng, asexual, or any other orientatn or genr inty may fd that the social stigma of livg as a mory is a source of strs or anxiety.

ISSU PSYCHOTHERAPY WH LBIAN AND GAY MEN: A SURVEY OF PSYCHOLOGISTS

Acrdg to a 2007 survey, stunts who intified as lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr were almost ten tim as likely to have experienced bullyg and victimizatn at school and more than twice as likely to have nsired suici as their heterosexual, non-transgenr classmat wh the prev year.

Early edns of the Diagnostic and Statistil Manual (DSM) intified homosexualy as a mental disorr, until clil rearch monstrated sexual or romantic attractn to someone of the same genr is a normal, healthy, posive form of human sexualy.

Go Premium and unlock all 4 pagPSY 260 Project Two Miltone Rearch Qutn One: Are there differenc the average agreement wh homosexual dividuals havg the right to marry one another among people who were terviewed different geographic regns of the Uned Stat? In 1975, the Amerin Psychologil Associatn (APA) took a strong stance regardg bias toward lbians and gay men, rolvg that "homosexualy per se impli no impairment judgment, reliabily or general social and votnal abili" (see Appendix A for the full text of the rolutn).