Why Are People Gay? Gay By Choice or Is Beg Gay Geic? | HealthyPlace

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• GAY DISCRIMATN AND STIGMA AND HOW TO COPE
• HOMOSEXUALY: THE UNTRI WHERE IS ILLEGAL TO BE GAY
• WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?
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OPPONENTS OF THE RERVE OFFICER TRAG CORPS (ROTC) E THE SAME ARGUMENT NCERNG THE DISCRIMATORY PRACTIC OF THE ARMED FORC. BUT YOU NNOT PARE HOMOSEXUALS TO BLACKS. GAYS ARE NOT A RACE OF PEOPLE. DISCRIMATN AGAST BLACKS IS VERY DIFFERENT OM DISCRIMATN AGAST GAYS.THE BLACK STGGLE AMERI HAS HISTORIL BASIS AND IMPLITN. SLAVERY AND JIM CROW WERE PRACTIC THAT RAPED OUR FAI, OUR INTI AND OUR CULTURE. TODAY, BLACKS REMA POLILLY AND ENOMILLY OPPRSED. POVERTY AND VLENCE HAVE RULTED OM THIS SYSTEMATIC OPPRSN. THE GAS OF OUR ANCTORS SEEM TO HAVE BEEN TEMPORARY.IN NTRAST, HOMOSEXUALS ARE NOT ENOMILLY OPPRSED. AS GAY RIGHTS ADVOT DITE, THEY ARE OUR LAWYERS, OUR DOCTORS, OUR TEACHERS, ETC. GAYS REPRENT MASTREAM AMERI THAT THEY HAVE GAED ENOMIC EEDOM AND AFFLUENCE. POLILLY, MANY ERNMENT OFFICIALS HAVE BEGUN TO ADM THEIR HOMOSEXUALY. THE STGGLE OF GAYS IS NOT PARABLE.THE REASON I WROTE THIS LETTER IS THAT I NNOT STAND TO SEE THE PLIGHT OF BLACKS MISREPRENTED. 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• GAY RIGHTS

GAY DISCRIMATN AND STIGMA AND HOW TO COPE

Homophobia, stigma (negative and ually unfair beliefs), and discrimatn (unfairly treatg a person or group of people) agast gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex wh men still exist the Uned Stat and n negatively affect the health and well-beg of this muny.

HOMOSEXUALY: THE UNTRI WHERE IS ILLEGAL TO BE GAY

The negative beliefs and actns n affect the physil and mental health of gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex wh men, whether they seek and are able to get health servic, and the qualy of the servic they may receive. Such barriers to health mt be addrsed at different levels of society, such as health re settgs, work plac, and schools to improve the health of gay and bisexual men throughout their liv. Enurage stunt-led and stunt-anized school clubs that promote a safe, welg, and acceptg school environment (such as gay-straight allianc, which are school clubs open to youth of all sexual orientatns).

Make easier for stunts to have accs to muny-based provirs who have experience providg health servic, cludg HIV/STD ttg and unselg, and social and psychologil servic to gay and bisexual youth.

WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?

In the same survey, 8 percent of lbian, gay, and bisexual rponnts and 29 percent of transgenr rponnts reported experiencg a refal of re om a medil provir bee of their genr inty or sexual orientatn the past year. In the past, homosexualy was nsired an illns and open hostily towards gay people was the norm; seeg much of this gay stigma disappear may lead some to believe that gay discrimatn is a thg of the past, but unfortunately, this is not the se.

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OPPONENTS OF THE RERVE OFFICER TRAG CORPS (ROTC) E THE SAME ARGUMENT NCERNG THE DISCRIMATORY PRACTIC OF THE ARMED FORC. BUT YOU NNOT PARE HOMOSEXUALS TO BLACKS. GAYS ARE NOT A RACE OF PEOPLE. DISCRIMATN AGAST BLACKS IS VERY DIFFERENT OM DISCRIMATN AGAST GAYS.THE BLACK STGGLE AMERI HAS HISTORIL BASIS AND IMPLITN. SLAVERY AND JIM CROW WERE PRACTIC THAT RAPED OUR FAI, OUR INTI AND OUR CULTURE. TODAY, BLACKS REMA POLILLY AND ENOMILLY OPPRSED. POVERTY AND VLENCE HAVE RULTED OM THIS SYSTEMATIC OPPRSN. THE GAS OF OUR ANCTORS SEEM TO HAVE BEEN TEMPORARY.IN NTRAST, HOMOSEXUALS ARE NOT ENOMILLY OPPRSED. AS GAY RIGHTS ADVOT DITE, THEY ARE OUR LAWYERS, OUR DOCTORS, OUR TEACHERS, ETC. GAYS REPRENT MASTREAM AMERI THAT THEY HAVE GAED ENOMIC EEDOM AND AFFLUENCE. POLILLY, MANY ERNMENT OFFICIALS HAVE BEGUN TO ADM THEIR HOMOSEXUALY. THE STGGLE OF GAYS IS NOT PARABLE.THE REASON I WROTE THIS LETTER IS THAT I NNOT STAND TO SEE THE PLIGHT OF BLACKS MISREPRENTED. ROTC ASSAILANTS ARE RRECT SAYG THAT ROTC'S DISCRIMATN AGAST GAYS TODAY IS SIAR TO THAT APPLIED BY THE ARY TOWARD BLACKS HISTORILLY.THIS IS WHERE THE SIARY BETWEEN BLACKS AND HOMOSEXUALS ENDS. LIBERALS HAVE SUGGTED THAT BLACKS, GAYS, OTHER MORI AND WOMEN SHOULD BAND TOGETHER TO FIGHT DISCRIMATN. FOR BLACKS THIS WOULD DO NO GOOD. WE ALREADY HAVE CIVIL RIGHTS LAWS THAT IRONILLY PROCLAIM OUR LEGAL EQUALY. WE MT NOW FIGHT VERT AS WELL AS SYSTEMATIC PERSECUTN THAT HAVE PREVENTED EQUALY OF OPPORTUNY FOR OUR PEOPLE. BY BANDG TOGETHER, EACH GROUP WOULD LOSE THE DIVIDUAL MSAGE OF THEIR UNIQUE SUATN. BLACKS GA NOTHG STANDG BI GAYS. THIS ONLY CLOUDS THE TE PROBLEMS OF BLACK AMERI.I MEAN NO DISRPECT TO GAYS, BUT I WILL NOT APOLOGIZE FOR MY UNWILLGNS TO PARALLEL HOMOSEXUALY TO BLACKNS. EVERYTIME I HEAR THE ANALOGY--ON DONAHUE, THE CRIMSON, AT DNER--I CRGE. IT IS SIMPLY A FALLACY. DISCRIMATN AGAST HOMOSEXUALS CENTERS AROUND MORALY AND SEXUALY. 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Even though we now unrstand that HIV and AIDS are not a "gay plague" and homosexuals are no way rponsible for the illns, AIDS and HIV stigma, as well as homophobia, ntue to be major barriers to endg the global AIDS epimic as homosexuals still feel too much discrimatn to accs val HIV preventn, treatment, and re servic. The term “homosexualy, ” while sometim nsired anachronistic the current era, is the most applible and easily translatable term to e when askg this qutn across societi and languag and has been ed other cross-natnal studi, cludg the World Valu Survey.

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Dpe major chang laws and norms surroundg the issue of same-sex marriage and the rights of LGBT people around the world, public opn on the acceptance of homosexualy society remas sharply divid by untry, regn and enomic velopment. For example, Swen, the Netherlands and Germany, all of which have a per-pa gross domtic product over $50, 000, acceptance of homosexualy is among the hight measured across the 34 untri surveyed. The study is a follow-up to a 2013 report that found many of the same patterns as seen today, although there has been an crease acceptance of homosexualy across many of the untri surveyed both years.