How One Mother’s Love for Her Gay Son Started a Revolutn | The New Yorker

Contents:

• KG LIL JAY SLAMS GAY MORS AFTER VIO OF MAT KISSG PROMPTS TROLLS’ RPONSE
• IS BARBIE GAY AND WHY IS THE NEW MOVIE RATED PG-13?
• ITALY BEGS REMOVG GAY MOTHERS OM CHILDREN’S BIRTH CERTIFIT
• CHARLIE KIRK CLAIMS DISNEY IS TRYG TO MAKE YOUR CHILDREN GAY
• THE STORY BEHD THE INIC PHOTO OF GAY DADS KISSG
• CHILDREN OF LBIAN AND GAY PARENTS
• YOUNG GAY MEN KISSG STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG
• ANTICIPATG PARENTHOOD AMONG LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND HETEROSEXUAL YOUNG ADULTS WHOUT CHILDREN PORTUGAL: PREDICTORS AND PROFIL
• TULUM POLICE ARRT GAY UPLE FOR KISSG PUBLIC ‘WH CHILDREN PRENT’
• SAME-SEX KISS RTORED PIXAR’S ‘LIGHTYEAR’ FOLLOWG STAFF UPROAR OVER ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL (EXCLUSIVE)
• 'LIGHTYEAR' STAR CHRIS EVANS LLS CRICS OF DISNEY PIXAR'S GAY KISSG SCENE ‘IDTS’
• MY HBAND IS GAY BUT WE’RE MARRIED WH TWO KIDS AND HAVE GREAT SEX
• DAD AND DAD: A JOURNEY TO GAY FATHERHOOD – PICTUR
• FLORIDA IS VTIGATG A TEACHER WHO SHOWED A DISNEY MOVIE WH A GAY CHARACTER
• HOW ONE MOTHER’S LOVE FOR HER GAY SON STARTED A REVOLUTN

KG LIL JAY SLAMS GAY MORS AFTER VIO OF MAT KISSG PROMPTS TROLLS’ RPONSE

The basels claim that chemils – particularly tap water – uld turn people gay has gaed populary wh nspiracy theorists over the years, most memorably wh nservative rad host Alex Jon, who said chemils the water were “turng the igg’ ogs gay. For ee real time breakg news alerts sent straight to your box sign up to our breakg news emailsSign up to our ee breakg news emailsItaly has begun removg the nam of gay mothers om their children’s birth certifit, as part of the right-wg ernment’s crackdown on same-sex move after populist prime mister Grgia Meloni’s aln announced March that state agenci should no longer register the children of same-sex upl, a move that sparked protts Milan.

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IS BARBIE GAY AND WHY IS THE NEW MOVIE RATED PG-13?

Havg begun to rpond to heterosexist and homophobic qutns posed by psychologil theory, judicial opn, and popular prejudice, child velopment rearchers are now a posn also to explore a broar range of issu raised by the emergence of different kds of gay and lbian fai. (Photo by Tabatha Fireman/Getty Imag)JACK GUEZ via Getty ImagAn Israeli girl ss on a relative's shoulrs wavg the rabow flag, the ternatnal symbol of gay pri, durg the annual Gay Pri para along the streets of Tel Aviv on June 6, 2008.

This study aimed (i) to explore differenc parenthood tentns as a functn of sexual orientatn, (ii) to vtigate to what extent socmographic and psychologil characteristics predict parenthood tentns of lbian, gay, bisexual (LGB), and heterosexual dividuals, (iii) to tt the mediatg effect of stigma between sexual orientatn and parenthood tentns, and (iv) to intify and characterize profil of prospective parenthood (through clter analysis).

ITALY BEGS REMOVG GAY MOTHERS OM CHILDREN’S BIRTH CERTIFIT

(2019) nceptualized the “homonormative fay mol” which clus a same-sex monogamo uple wh Portugal, bills favor of LGB dividuals’ parental rights are very recent: adoptn by same-sex upl and public fund accs to ART for all women, irrpective of their sexual orientatn, relatnal stat, and fertily stat were only approved 2016.

CHARLIE KIRK CLAIMS DISNEY IS TRYG TO MAKE YOUR CHILDREN GAY

Invtigatg attus toward same-sex adoptive fai among Portugue stunts om the helpg profsns, Gato and Fontae (2016, 2017) found an associatn between heterosexism and negative attus toward adoptn by lbian women and gay men. Not surprisgly, the appreciatn of children as an enrichg factor one’s life is an important parental motivatn factor intified both among heterosexual persons (Dn, 1995; Langridge et al., 2005; Cassidy and Strovani, 2008) and lbian women and gay men (Siegenthaler and Bigner, 2000; Bos et al., 2003; Goldberg et al., 2012). To our knowledge, published studi have not yet examed leage nsiratn as a factor for gay men or bisexual SupportThe availabily of people wh personal social works who n offer fort, love, and enuragement is of the utmost important for the well-beg of all dividuals (Sarason et al., 1983).

Other studi suggt that after beg parents, lbian women and gay men report, on the one hand, enhancement of the relatnal bonds wh their parents (DeMo et al., 2007; Bergman et al., 2010; Goldberg and Smh, 2011) and, on the other hand, an creased distance toward the LGBT muny (Gabb, 2004; Mallon, 2004; Giano, 2008; Simon et al., 2019). Acrdg to the thors, the rults seemed to reflect the social and legal climate Italy, where negative attus toward lbian and gay parenthood prevailed, and where seemed unlikely the near future for same-sex upl to accs rights to civil partnerships and legal marriage, foster re, or adoptn.

Some studi have shown that lbian women and gay men differ their parenthood tentns: lbian women reported both greater sire for parenthood and more tent than did their male peers (Riskd and Patterson, 2010; Bac and Laghi, 2013). Furthermore, gay men who sired to bee a parent were ls likely than heterosexual men to tend to have children, whereas this discrepancy was not observed among lbian women (Riskd and Patterson, 2010; Bac and Laghi, 2013).

THE STORY BEHD THE INIC PHOTO OF GAY DADS KISSG

Furthermore, gay men are perceived as not only challengg the stereotype of men wh mastream culture but also wh the norms surroundg gay culture, which until recently has been ee of parenthood ncerns (Mallon, 2004; Schacher et al., 2005; Stacey, 2006; Salvati et al., 2019). Patterson and Riskd (2010) further have suggted that a lack of faiary wh alternate paths to parenthood uld be volved the reticence of gay men pared to lbian the Uned Stat, younger dividuals are more likely to report that they tend to bee parents (Williams et al., 1999). Sexual orientatn was asssed wh a tegoril measure that asked participants to intify as heterosexual, bisexual, lbian, or gay: 44 fed themselv as lbian women, 78 as gay men, 59 as bisexual women, 7 as bisexual men, 113 as heterosexual women, and 73 as heterosexual men.

ProcreData were llected on-le om April to June 2015, as part of a larger study, “Lbian, gay, and bisexual parenthood: Psychologil termants and experienc the social ntext, ” and given ethil approval by the stutnal review board of the host stutn. Hypothis 1 was th further spect differenc parenthood tentns as functn of all groups nsired (lbian women, bisexual women, gay men, bisexual men, heterosexual women, and heterosexual men), and given imbalanc the number of participants each group, we employed the Kskal-Wallis non-parametric tt to evaluate differenc among the six groups on median change parenthood tentns.

CHILDREN OF LBIAN AND GAY PARENTS

Pairwise parisons revealed differenc between (i) lbian women and gay men, (ii) gay men and heterosexual men, and (iii) gay men and heterosexual women (a Bonferroni rrectn was applied ntrollg for Type I error across tts). In turn, gay men showed lower levels of parenthood tentn when pared to heterosexual dividuals (Figure 1) plot of the distributn of parenthood tentns among heterosexual women, lbian women, bisexual women, heterosexual men, gay men, and bisexual men. However, the hypothis that sexual mory dividuals may not feel as socially prsured to have children should also not be disrd as a potential explanatn of the mon wh studi Italy and the Uned Stat, Portugue lbian women the current study reported higher levels of parenthood tent than did gay men (Riskd and Patterson, 2010; Bac and Laghi, 2013).

The fact that lbian women reported higher levels of parenthood tent than did gay men may be attributed to the blogil possibily of pregnancy and perhaps genred views of parentg as a feme doma (Dalton and Bielby, 2000; Epste, 2002; Benson et al., 2005; Wall, 2007; Pelka, 2009; Hicks, 2013), prejudice agast gay men as ndidat for parenthood (Mallon, 2004; Schacher et al., 2005; Stacey, 2006; Berkowz and Marsigl, 2007; Gross, 2012), and a lack of faiary wh alternate rout to parenthood the se of gay men (Patterson and Riskd, 2010). This way, genred views of parentg as a feme doma (Dalton and Bielby, 2000; Epste, 2002; Benson et al., 2005; Wall, 2007; Pelka, 2009; Hicks, 2013) as well as prejudice agast gay male (prospective) parents (Mallon, 2004; Schacher et al., 2005; Stacey, 2006; Berkowz and Marsigl, 2007; Gross, 2012) might acunt for genr differenc the parenthood tent of sexual mory dividuals. There are still a lot of nservativ who fight back agast the characters, storyl, and scen – which is upsettg, but very an effort to celebrate the moments, we’ve put together a list featurg some of our favore gay kissg scen om film and televisn.

YOUNG GAY MEN KISSG STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG

1987’s Mrice featured a very subtle and tentative – but still inic – gay kiss between Clive (Hugh Grant) and Mrice (Jam Wilby) durg a time when queer romance wasn’t at all somethg we expected to see on the big screen. Chucky is changg the horror game once the latt, fifth episo of the Chucky TV seri, Jake, the 14-year-old gay protagonist got his first kiss, and uldn't have happened a better and his iend Devon have been gettg closer all season, dancg around their feelgs.

We've e a long way recent years when to real, thentic pictns of gay love on-screen, and while same-sex kiss are still fairly new when you nsir the overall history of Hollywood and media, there's still a whole lot of gay love, specifilly gay kiss, to watch and choose om.

Man took all the guswork out of tryg to e up wh the bt gay kiss of all time and piled a handy list of the top 100 that clus the lik of the Osr-wng 2016 Barry Jenks film Moonlight, Timothee Chalamet and Armie Hammer's Call Me by Your Name, Showtime's long-nng Shamels, Netflix's cult-favore Sense8, and so many more beloved movie and televisn tl.

ANTICIPATG PARENTHOOD AMONG LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND HETEROSEXUAL YOUNG ADULTS WHOUT CHILDREN PORTUGAL: PREDICTORS AND PROFIL

But was later rtored light of Disney's "Don't Say Gay" ntroversy, when was revealed the pany had donated roughly $200, 000 to Republin policians who supported the bill, which forbids discsns of sexual orient elementary school classrooms.

"Other live-actn Disney films have relegated queer characters to the background, like a blk-and-you'll-miss- kiss between two women "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, " or the "exclively gay moment" of Josh Gad's LeFou dancg wh another man "Bety and the Beast. Ma characters they are not, but we love to see LGBTQ+ fai and, hontly, we didn’t realize how much we were missg gay zebras until Chip and Potato, rated TV-Y, on Ltle Pony: Friendship Is MagicSotaloo is raised by a lbian uple, Aunt Holiday and Auntie KenneyMy Ltle Pony: Friendship Is Magic follows the adventur of unirns, pegasi, and poni throughout Equtria, where they solve problems and, ocsnally, battle the forc of darkns, cludg the Cutie Mark Csars, Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, and Sotaloo. While there are some mor gay characters on the show, ma character Jeff is beg raised by two moms, EJ (voiced by Lea DeLaria) and Sue (voiced by Tig Notaro) one pot the seri had unnamed gay characters kissg (the b is funny, though the edy isn't their kiss).

TULUM POLICE ARRT GAY UPLE FOR KISSG PUBLIC ‘WH CHILDREN PRENT’

”Stream Twelve Forever, rated TV-PG, on FayMchell and Cam were among the first proment gay parents a KenneyWhen Morn Fay premiered 2009, Cam and Mchell were among the few gay ma characters on a work s (and, let’s be hont: ’s still not mon).

But all is well and, throughout the seri, while their gay inty is sometim a plot pot, more often they’re jt another fay on the the most part, the plotl wrten for Cam and Mchell uld easily be wrten for a straight uple.

The stunng allegatn — ma as part of a larger prott over the pany’s lack of public rponse to Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill — did not clu which Pixar films had weathered the censorship, nor which specific creative cisns were cut or altered. : It was ially cut om the film, then rtored after ternal uproar when was revealed Disney had donated $200, 000 to Republin policians who supported Florida's “Don’t Say Gay” bill, which forbids discsns of sexual orientatn elementary school Evans' Buzz is more fantastic than plastic Pixar's spiffy 'Lightyear'“What this film do is handle love and those stori the way that they should be, that they are not the totaly of a person, ” Aduba tells USA TODAY. ':Chris Evans on 'Lightyear, ' playg bad guys and beg 'a romantic person'In March, the kiss was rtored after Pixar animators spoke out agast Disney  an open letter obtaed by Variety, sayg executiv had mand cuts "om nearly every moment of overtly gay affectn.

SAME-SEX KISS RTORED PIXAR’S ‘LIGHTYEAR’ FOLLOWG STAFF UPROAR OVER ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL (EXCLUSIVE)

(Getty Imag)"Every time there’s been social advancement as we wake up, the Amerin story, the human story is one of nstant social awakeng and growth and that’s what mak good, " Evans 'S SHORT FILM ‘OUT’ FEATURES FIRST GAY MAIN CHARACTERThe ment as some crics of the film have argued the cisn to clu LGBTQ reprentatn and a scene wh a gay married uple kissg a film marketed to children was on-screen kiss tak place between Hawthorne, a female lead voiced by Uzo Aduba, and another female, PIXAR'S 'LIGHTYEAR' SEES SAME-SEX KISS RESTORED AMID CONTROVERSY WITH QUEER CHARACTER: REPORTIt was reportedly removed om the film earlier this year, amid ntroversy over Disney’s quietns over Florida’s "Don’t Say Gay" bill that barred nversatns about LGBTQ inty K-12 classrooms, Variety reported March of this year, cg "a source close to the productn. While TV shows have featured more and more diverse characters recent years, remas particularly difficult to fd fay-iendly LGBTQ+ movi, often bee the stori (problematilly) often foc on the paful, vlent, R-rated stggl of gay and lbian folks. Here's an overview of what's g up want to say a big thank you to everyone (se members, thors, tweeters) who has remend books that have changed or add to their perspective on anythg LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr) for this blog so far.

A fantastic, md-alterg Newberry, thor of The Shell HoeI'd like to add three books which were out there well before the repeal of Sectn 28: Dance on My Grave and Postrds om No Mans Land, by Aidan Chambers, and The Other Si of the Fence by Jean Smh, thor of Grasshopper JungleI love Benjam Alire Saenz's betifully wrten novel Aristotle and Dante Disver the Secrets of the Universe bee of the straightforward, fortable, and passnate way Saenz prents his characters that, I thk, tly opens rears' ey and mds to the wholens and humanns of gay Levhan, thor of Two Boys Kissg Franc Lia Block's Weetzie Bat opened my md to the notn that life and circumstance are as much about mic they are about plot, by bg the fantastil wh the paful.

'LIGHTYEAR' STAR CHRIS EVANS LLS CRICS OF DISNEY PIXAR'S GAY KISSG SCENE ‘IDTS’

It's the tale of transgirl Luna seen through her sister's ey, and the endg is hopeful and Boys Kissg by David Leviathan has this chos of men who died of Aids narratg which provis perspective on past, current and future generatns of gay teens, and really ma me thk about how lucky I, as a queer teen, am to be growg up a world where attus towards queer people are slowly changg for the better. It's important bee not only do provi relevant rmatn and a character to intify wh for trans teens, also helps cisgenr teens to unrstand somewhat what is like to be trans, and hopefully will help them to be more acceptg of people different om Gibbons, thor of HateRubyu Jungle by Ra Mae Brown was one of the first novels I me across that featured a gay or lbian character who me across as a real person. Wrten 1913 but published posthumoly 1971, this classic novel is filled wh Forster's longg and hope for society's eventual acceptance and regnn of gay Twter @mark_suenA boy's Own Story by Edmund Twter @JamMackayCypAnd Tango Mak Three and 10, 000 email, JonathanFor younger children I like the two picture books.

Her characters – the separable Thgummy and Bob wh their stolen by and secret , the highly petent and utterly lm Too Ticky – are some of the most enarg gay characters all email, ElizabethMagic's Pawn, Merces Lackey and the email, SannahJt wanted to add to your list a great YA book that I read recently on the subject of tersex people. Both novels pict the emergence of gay inty as related to a broar queer sensibily, wh all sorts of Bell, Somethg Like SummerOn email, SaidI remember havg to hi Rabow Boys (by Alex Sanchez) when I was the midst of realisg I was gay as an early teen.

It is a heart-warmg story about iendship, fandom, fay valu, self-acceptance and love, and my opn should be clud every school email, AmyThe Summer I Wasn't Me, by Jsi Verdi, is about two girls who fall love at an ex-gay mp. My wife and I have tried to build a library of multi-cultural, LGBT-themed picture books which has loads more great email, DianeChulo by Charl Rice-Gonzalez is a g of age novel about a gay lato teenager livg the macho culture of the South Bronx. On email, OrvilleI would remend Unr My Sk to teenagers; I remember when I was a teen many years ago, there were no LGBT books specifilly about black gay LGBT people and the poetry Unr My Sk challeng black email, Vee om My favor are Brooklyn, Burng by Steve Brezenoff and Love the Time of Global Warmg by Franc Lia Block.

MY HBAND IS GAY BUT WE’RE MARRIED WH TWO KIDS AND HAVE GREAT SEX

They asked if they uld kiss her; they asked if she would talk to their parents; they told her that they uldn’t image their own mothers and fathers supportg them so publicly, or supportg them at woman’s name was Jeanne Manford, and she was marchg alongsi her twenty-one-year-old gay son, Morty.

The anizatn they dreamed up that day, which started as a sgle support group Manhattan, was ially lled Parents of Gays; later, was renamed Parents FLAG, for Parents and Friends of Lbians and Gays; nowadays, is known only as PFLAG. The same year Avril was born, Morty’s psychiatrist summoned Jeanne and Jul to his office and rmed them that their beloved goln boy and sole survivg son was the bt of her knowledge, Jeanne Manford had never known anyone who was gay.

Polil anizg was virtually impossible—one early gay-rights group that attempted to officially rporate New York was told that s mere existence would vlate state sodomy laws—and posive cultural reprentatn was all but nonexistent; there were no openly gay or lbian policians, punds, relig lears, actors, athlet, or micians the mastream. The next time Morty wound up jail, Jeanne was woken up by an early-morng phone ll—not om him but om the arrtg officer, who, apparently expectg to Morty’s life, ma a show of askg Jeanne if she knew that her son was “a homosexual.

DAD AND DAD: A JOURNEY TO GAY FATHERHOOD – PICTUR

In the sprg of 1972, the New York Daily News ran an edorial, headled “Any Old Jobs for Homos?, ” that referred to “fairi, nanc, swish, fags, lezz” and mend the Supreme Court for cidg that a public universy uld rcd a job offer to a man who applied for a marriage license wh his male partner. To reach parents directly, the Manfords placed an ad the Village Voice; to reach them directly, through their children, Morty and the lbian activist Barbara Love scend on New York Cy’s gay hangouts wh fifteen hundred signs and leaflets, handma and posssg somethg of the timate, supplint look of lost-pet posters. In addn to Jeanne and Jul, Morty and Love were prent to answer qutns that the parents attendance might not be fortable askg their own dghters and the time, most parents of gay or lbian children were a supremely difficult posn.

When the prcipal of the elementary school where she worked told her that people were startg to talk and asked her to be more discreet, Jeanne rmed the woman that her profsnal life was one thg and her private life was another and that she would do as she, though, the people who reached out to the Manfords and to Parents of Gays were lookg for help or muny or a balm for heartbreakg pa. That was not bee she craved the attentn—“There was nothg pretent about her, nothg fortune-seekg, no love of the spotlight, ” her granddghter Avril told me—but bee she was one of the few people willg to speak out public on behalf of their gay this time, Jul was one of those people, too.

Many early members beme evangelists for the anizatn, spirg siar groups around the untry, and 1979, durg the first Natnal March on Washgton for Lbian and Gay Rights, reprentativ om twenty-five of those groups met to talk about formg a natnal body. And then, once aga, tragedy found the Manford the sprg and summer of 1981, gay men started showg up tensive-re uns New York and San Francis wh a strange form of pnmonia and a rare type of ncer known as Kaposi’s sara. “I’ve been to AIDS funerals where they got up and nmned the body that was the ff, ” Perry many parents, though, AIDS tght them a ccial lson the harst possible way: the time to love your gay children, like all your children, is immediately and always.

FLORIDA IS VTIGATG A TEACHER WHO SHOWED A DISNEY MOVIE WH A GAY CHARACTER

Crics say the provisns about LGBTQ lsons — patterned on ntroversial “Don’t Say Gay” law om Florida — nta vague language that uld stifle even rmal discsn about LGBTQ people, such as teachers discsg their same-sex spo. The Republin Party of Texas, which oppos any efforts to validate transgenr inti and claims that homosexualy is “an abnormal liftyle choice, ” also nsirs banng the “teachg, exposure, and/or discsn of sexual matters (mechanics, feelgs, orientatn, or ‘genr inty’ issu)” to be a legislative prry.

HOW ONE MOTHER’S LOVE FOR HER GAY SON STARTED A REVOLUTN