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14 Dec 2024

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OPN A NEW STUDY REVEALS HOW GAY MEN SEE THEMSELV AND THEIR MUNI
THE POWER 'CHOOSG TO BE GAY'
FDG THE ‘ANTIDOTE’ TO MY UNSTABLE SENSE OF SELF AS A GAY, CHRISTIAN ‘BORRLE’

OPN A NEW STUDY REVEALS HOW GAY MEN SEE THEMSELV AND THEIR MUNI

Only recent years have pollsters asked LGBT people how they see themselv and Ameri. A new survey of gay men om Logo provis a sometim surprisg look at the muny challeng. * sense of self gay *

It seemed like a turng pot for gay rights when, earlier this month, 74 percent of rponnts a natnal poll said that legal rights should tmp private relig beliefs, and 63 percent said that Kim Davis, a Kentucky unty clerk who went to jail for refg to issue marriage licens to gay and lbian upl, should have to fulfill the obligatns of her job.

But for all the changg sentiments reflected s fdgs, the poll self was part of a long tradn of askg the populatn at large how they feel about gay people and the rights and protectns available to an illumatg and strikgly different survey, Logo — the Via Media work aimed at gay dienc — polled 1, 061 gay men between ag 18 and 49, askg them how they saw themselv and their muni and followg up wh smaller groups a number of ci.

And provis a fascatg look at how a risg generatn of gay men feels about gay history, the role of the Inter and some of the biggt ternal challeng facg gay muni.

THE POWER 'CHOOSG TO BE GAY'

What I know om my own life and om the work I do wh gay men is that gay shame is jt as pervasive and damagg as any outward, blatant, or homophobic attack. What I also know to be te is that by rporatg the followg five steps, we, as gay men, n heal any left over ridue of gay shame: * sense of self gay *

Gay publitns such as Harry Hay’s One Magaze surveyed their rears at early as 1961, askg them how often they had sex, whether they had arrt rerds and if they might enjoy rrpondg wh other gay men.

FDG THE ‘ANTIDOTE’ TO MY UNSTABLE SENSE OF SELF AS A GAY, CHRISTIAN ‘BORRLE’

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