3 Ways to Know if You Are Gay - wikiHow

Contents:

• AM I GAY?
• IF I AM NOT STRAIGHT OR GAY, WHO AM I?
• HOW TO KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY
• LONGEST GAY TEST!
• AM I GAY/LBIAN, BI, ACE/DEMI, STRAIGHT OR PAN? THE LGBTQ QUIZ ?️‍?
• ARE YOU GAY OR STRAIGHT?
• HOW DO I KNOW I’M NOT REALLY GAY/STRAIGHT?

AM I GAY?

Gay - While this adjective has historilly scribed men who are attracted to other men, the term now is ed to refer to anyone who experienc romantic, emotnal, or physil attractn to people of the same genr. Sce genr inty and sexual orientatn are separate, transgenr people n intify as straight, gay, lbian, bisexual, etc.

Wh this tt, you n fd out where you lie on the spectm of heterosexual, homosexual, allosexual, and asexual.

IF I AM NOT STRAIGHT OR GAY, WHO AM I?

Jt for funI'm spic that I may be gayI've never had a csh on anyone, and am unsure where I lie on the spectm of sexualyWhat would your ial partner be if you two are gog to spend a week on an island? But mak me unfortable to see gay upl 's a gay uple, 's fe.

Havg sex wh the person I love mostCuddlg wh the person I love mostJt beg next to the person I love mostHangg out wh iends / beg aloneHow would you feel if your bt iend me out as gay?

My practice, together wh those of a handful of lleagu, began 1983 as an alternative to the treatment provid to homosexual clients by the public health servic Norway. Usg empiril material drawn om therapy ssns and follow up terviews, this article reflects upon differg nceptualizatns of homosexual inty found queer theory and elsewhere.

HOW TO KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY

Experienc of ambiguy are a rource and a personal strategy that allows movements between inty tegori, is given special regnn as an important pg strategy employed by the women Norwegian Discursive Context on HomosexualyDpe many chang Norwegian attus, a recent extensive survey of livg ndns for lbians and gays dited that is still not easy for young homosexuals to e out, the sense of disclosg their sexual orientatn, ntemporary Norwegian society (Hegna et al. The fdgs dite that heterosexual norms and expectatns of women and men ntue to domate Norway, spe the improved social climate for homosexuals of the recent past. For many women and men may still be extremely difficult to intify themselv as homosexuals spe chang attus and greater posive attentn given to homosexualy Norwegian recent s, there has been a marked improvement gay and lbian legal rights Norway.

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Today a number of longstandg practic which socially and legally opprsed homosexuals, cludg psychiatric diagnos and crimalizatn, no longer exist. The Norwegian state church is currently eply volved rethkg s views on homosexualy.

In 2009, a legal marriage act providg homosexuals wh the same rights as those long enjoyed by heterosexuals has been enacted (Mistry of Children and Equaly 2007–2008). In the public sphere, the past has wnsed a growg bate the Norwegian media about sexualy issu and this has had a posive fluence on attus towards gay and lbian people. Policians have been required to brg the words homosexual, gay and lbian to the official bate and this and related chang have helped to give greater and more posive regnns to gays and lbians Norwegian society than earlier ‘Comg Out’—Theoretil PerspectivThe origal g out mol, which has been wily employed cultural and theraptic disurse, intified distct phas or stag to be passed through before a woman uld nfintly intify herself as a lbian (Cass 1979; Coleman 1987; Troin 1989).

Owg to the and other cricisms of g out theori, a number of new ways of unrstandg the velopment of homosexual inty and related issu have been proposed.

AM I GAY/LBIAN, BI, ACE/DEMI, STRAIGHT OR PAN? THE LGBTQ QUIZ ?️‍?

Proment among the new ways of thkg has been queer theory—a theoretil ame much ncerned wh strategi for avoidg beg tegorized simply as a gay man or a lbian woman.

Gay men and lbian women). Yet, when a domant factor this knowledge is a set of heterosexual norms, the liv of homosexuals bee highly problematic. Through my posn as a psychotherapist and scholar the field of lbian and gay studi for over 20 years I have gaed an awarens of the chang what today is problematic for my clients as pared to earlier tim.

It is much fluenced by movements stgglg agast the opprsn of gay and lbian people as well as by theraptic lerature addrsg gay and lbian people specifilly (Brown 1996; Fal 1991). The s of Frida and Jenny reprent, I feel, the most clear cut exampl of movement between heterosexualy and homosexualy that I have observed all the s.

ARE YOU GAY OR STRAIGHT?

Jenny`s se is prented to exemplify how the analytic procs was addn, the two selected s reprent two rather different movements wh the range of navigatnal strategi between homosexualy and heterosexualy found the rearch sample. In tellg their troubl, the women all prented stori on a variety of them about heterosexualy and homosexualy.

As shown by other rearch, visibily and silence work to hr homosexuals om fully extendg and tegratg aspects of their inti (Saari 2001).

Acrdg to Davison (2001), a major ethil issue therapy is related to seeg the problems of lbians and gays as a direct nsequence of opprsn society due to a lack of regnn for their love. Analytic Issu Frida’s StoryFrida appears to be manverg her way between heterosexual and homosexual expectatns.

HOW DO I KNOW I’M NOT REALLY GAY/STRAIGHT?

The norms clu var forms of subtle and not so subtle ntempt for gays and lbians society. The dilemmas entail procs of nstant navigatg between dichotomi of homosexual/heterosexual, feme/mascule, normaly/viance and personal rponsibily/thgs that happen by chance. Navigatg Between the Dichotomy Homosexual/HeterosexualHeterosexualy and homosexualy are nstcted relatn to each other, and as such they provi meang and boundari to each other.

This has been characterized by one rearcher as ternalized homophobia (Weberger 1973) the time g out theori veloped, they seemed to reprent a form of ristance to this and other negative aspects of heterosexual hegemony. In the tal the women tell of their liv, there is ltle evince of the stag of lbian inty formatn predicted wh great certaty by the g out narrativ rm om different posns about how heterosexualy and homosexualy provi norms and prcriptns about what may be possible.

Applied to the social field ntemporary Norwegian society which is stctured by the dichotomy of homosexual and heterosexual orientatn, this set of nceptualizatns offers one way of explag how the journeys reunted by Jenny and Frida did not volve makg choic between the two pol of this dichotomy. Their stori tell stead of alternative manvergs creatg space and possibili for ways of shapg inty which transcend the boundari of the fixed tegori of homosexual and heterosexual. Jt as homosexualy is subordated to heterosexualy and femy to masculy, viance is subordated to normaly.