Gay, Not Gay, Straight, Not Straight | Psychology Today

Contents:

• HOW DO I KNOW I’M NOT REALLY GAY/STRAIGHT?
• IS YOUR MAN GAY, STRAIGHT, OR BISEXUAL?
• GAY, NOT GAY, STRAIGHT, NOT STRAIGHT
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER (LGBTQ) TEENS

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

Yet the evince suggts that more young men intify or scribe themselv as mostly straight than intify as eher bisexual or gay bed. Yet when the men were forced to choose between straight, bisexual or gay, about three-quarters marked straight bee for them bisexual, even if is unrstood as “bisexual-leang straight, ” is too gay to accurately scribe their inty.

He’s not a closeted gay man who fears beg gay yet wants to keep a slight, perhaps secretive, gay si by danglg his potential for guy sex.

He may retreat om a full intifitn wh heterosexualy, but rarely do he gravate toward bisexualy, and almost never do he move toward homosexualy of any sort. Sexual orientatn refers to the endurg physil, romantic and/or emotnal attractn to members of the same and/or other genrs, cludg lbian, gay, bisexual and straight orientatns. Acrdg to the report, "Instead, the rponnts (who for all tents and purpos would be tegorized as beg heterosexual), often dis-intify om a gay inty, posssg what is referred to as a 'not-me' inty (McCall, 2003).

IS YOUR MAN GAY, STRAIGHT, OR BISEXUAL?

" Perhaps reflectg limed nsiratn of sexual orientatn among those the majory, prev gnive terviewg studi found that rponnts n nfe the words "homosexual" and "heterosexual, " believg that "heterosexual" means beg gay and that "homosexual" means beg straight. ” Many people, cludg sex rearchers and scientists, believe that sexual orientatn is like a sle wh entirely gay on one end and entirely straight on the other.

GAY, NOT GAY, STRAIGHT, NOT STRAIGHT

Overall, 9 percent of rponnts intified as lbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, omnisexual or asexual; for Generatn Z, the figure doubl to 18 percent. Rponnts overall intified as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr or queer, while 16 percent of those Generatn Z reported beg LGBTQ.

Exposure to sexual and genr moriWorldwi, 42 percent of survey rponnts said they have a gay or lbian relative, iend or lleague, while 24 percent said they know someone who is bisexual; 10 percent said they known someone who is transgenr, and 9 percent said they know someone who is nonbary, genr-nonnformg or genr-fluid.

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER (LGBTQ) TEENS

In Brazil, for example, 66 percent report havg a gay or lbian relative, iend or lleague, but Japan and South Korea, the number is only 7 to speakg out on behalf of LGBTQ people, nearly one-third of all rponnts around the world said they had done so. Globally, 13 percent of all rponnts said they had attend such an event, cludg 54 percent of lbian and gay rponnts and 10 percent of heterosexuals. Enb, who was not volved the survey, said the low level of participatn Pri events Rsia is due, part, to the untry's so-lled gay propaganda law.

Havg the send-hight growth, followg Argenta, where support grew by 25 Amerin untri monstrated relatively high levels of support for same-sex marriage, wh 82 percent of rponnts Chile and 76 percent Mexi favor of same-sex marriage or some type of legal regnn of gay unns. Visibily and equalyAround the world, a majory support lbians', gays' and bisexuals' beg open about their sexual orientatn (51 percent favor pared to 16 percent opposn).

There is strong support for laws banng discrimatn at 55 percent worldwi, but support is more muted on public affectn, wh 37 percent supportg and 27 percent is also global support for openly lbian, gay and bisexual athlet on sports teams. They are not merely closeted bisexual or gay men and their motiv for not intifyg as such are seldom to mata normative straight male privilege or stat. In one study, men who reported havg a small gree of same-sex attractns were given three sexual inty choic: straight, bisexual, and gay.