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Contents:

• WHY MY WIFE AND I DECID TO ABORT OUR UNBORN GAY SON
• AM I GAY?
• EVEN THOUGH I’M A GAY RELATNSHIP, I WANT A BABY WH A WOMAN
• ‘I AM GAY – BUT I WASN’T BORN THIS WAY’
• WE WANT A WHAT? OPTNS FOR GAY MEN
• FOR GAY MEN, HAVG A BLOGIL CHILD N BE PLITED
• I WAS MARRIED WH 2 KIDS WHEN I REALIZED I’M GAY

WHY MY WIFE AND I DECID TO ABORT OUR UNBORN GAY SON

I'm gay, so all my straight male iends don't unrstand why I would want a baby or children at all.

AM I GAY?

They found the gen that e homosexualy and they tt for them now. I know thgs are gettg better for gay people, but seems to me that beg gay is really hard the South, where we live. Gay people aren’t really accepted here like other parts of the untry yet.

Suici attempts are signifintly higher among gay teens—five tim more likely. Gay kids are five tim more likely than a heterosexual youth to end up hospalized as a rult.

Studi progrsive stat like Vermont and Massachetts found that for gay and bisexual boys, rat of victimizatn were nearly five tim that of straight kids. Gay kids are way more likely to do all of the thgs than siarly persecuted straight kids. On top of that, every studied risk factor but cigarette e, gay and bisexual boys are at a much greater risk than girls.

EVEN THOUGH I’M A GAY RELATNSHIP, I WANT A BABY WH A WOMAN

So my wife and I talked, and we’ve cid we aren’t ready to raise a gay child.

My wife told one of her iends that we are gog to have an abortn bee we don’t feel equipped to al wh raisg a gay child. I’ve been gettg emails, texts, and IMs all day om them askg me why I’m a homophobe, and why I hate gay people.

“You are termatg this pregnancy bee you don’t want a gay child. Cens numbers put the number of homosexuals Ameri at around 3 percent.

‘I AM GAY – BUT I WASN’T BORN THIS WAY’

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While some see themselv as fively straight or gay or bisexual, many see themselv as somewhere between. You so obvly nnot be gay, was her implitn, bee this is good 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.

WE WANT A WHAT? OPTNS FOR GAY MEN

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 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 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.

FOR GAY MEN, HAVG A BLOGIL CHILD N BE PLITED

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I WAS MARRIED WH 2 KIDS WHEN I REALIZED I’M GAY

” People who challenge the Born This Way narrative are often st as homophobic, and their thkg is nsired backward – even if they are themselv, for example, Cynthia Nixon of Sex and The Cy fame. In a 2012 terview wh New York Tim Magaze, the actrs sually mentned that homosexualy was, for her, a choice. “I unrstand that for many people ’s not, but for me ’s a choice, and you don’t get to fe my gayns for me.

Callg me “idtic” and “patently absurd”, Aravosis wrote, “The gay haters at the relig right uldn’t have wrten any better. ”Gay rights do not have to hge on a geic explanatn for sexualy (Cred: Ignac Lehmann)For Aravosis, and many gay activists like him, the public will only accept and affirm gay people if they thk they were born gay. Patrick Grzanka, Assistant Profsor of Psychology at Universy of Tennsee, for stance, has shown that some people who believe that homosexualy is nate still hold negative views of gays.

In fact, the homophobic and non-homophobic rponnts he studied shared siar levels of belief a Born This Way Samantha Allen not at The Daily Beast, the growg public support for gays and lbians has grown out of proportn wh the rise the number of people who believe homosexualy is fixed at birth; would be unlikely that this small change opn uld expla the spike support for gay marriage, for stance. Instead, she suggts hg on the fact that far more people are now personally acquated wh someone who is gay.