What’s Good about Beg Gay?: Perspectiv om Youth - PMC

Contents:

• HOW TO ACCEPT THAT YOU ARE GAY
• WHY BEG GAY IS THE BT THG THAT EVER HAPPENED TO ME
• WHAT’S GOOD ABOUT BEG GAY?: PERSPECTIV OM YOUTH
• IN DEFENSE OF BEG BORG AND GAY

HOW TO ACCEPT THAT YOU ARE GAY

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WHY BEG GAY IS THE BT THG THAT EVER HAPPENED TO ME

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WHAT’S GOOD ABOUT BEG GAY?: PERSPECTIV OM YOUTH

I’m not sayg that every gay person mak a better wrer than a straight one but everyone who’s experienced both the ups and downs of life certaly a journalist and broadster, my sexualy has also benefted my reer. Now that mastream dienc are open to hearg about queer experienc and media outlets are aware of the need for posive reprentatn, I’ve travelled the world to report on gay-themed stori.

Prentg the terviews mak me feel privileged to be part of a queer keep up to speed wh all the latt opns and ment, sign up to our ee weekly Voic Dispatch newsletter by clickg hereY, there are still eptns of homophobia our society – and some are horrendoly ugly and terrifyg. Published fal eded form as:PMCID: PMC3326393NIHMSID: NIHMS358675AbstractThis article explor gay and bisexual male adolcents’ posive perceptns of their sexual orientatn inty.

Addnal primary them and sub-them were intified wh each tegory that further illtrate how gay/bisexual youth were able to velop posive nceptualizatns of their sexual orientatn spe experiencg negative societal msag about beg gay/bisexual. Keywords: Bisexual, gay, male, riliency, sexual orientatn, youthAdolcence is a velopmental perd where young people are maturg physilly, emotnally and socially as they transn to adulthood (Erikson, 1980; Hill, 1983).

IN DEFENSE OF BEG BORG AND GAY

When the fluenc are negative, psychologil distrs among adolcents may rult, pecially for those youth who intify as lbian, gay, or bisexual (Almeida, Johnson, Corliss, Molnar & Azrael, 2009; Hershberger & D’Augelli, 1995; Ueno, 2005).

Th, this article tak a rilience-based approach to examg sexual orientatn inty among gay/bisexual male adolcents by sharg their perceptns regardg the posive aspects of beg gay/bisexual.

One study that addrsed this topic prented riliency strategi among lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) young people North Wt England and South Wal wh the ntext of hetero-normative environments (Surfield, Roen & McDermott, 2008). The thors assert that even though the young men were livg a hetero-normative Puerto Rin culture wh pervasive homophobia and cultural stigma, they veloped riliency strategi that helped them to overe potential obstacl. This was one of the few studi found to prent riliency strategi veloped by gay/bisexual adolcents to bat negative social and cultural ntug rearch is need on the velopmental challeng faced by LGB adolcents, pecially those who are also members of other opprsed groups such as youth of lor, a parallel le of scientific quiry is also need to explore the strengths and rilienci monstrated by LGB youth.