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Contents:

• AM I GAY?
• ‘I AM GAY – BUT I WASN’T BORN THIS WAY’
• HOW TO KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY
• HOW DO I KNOW IF I AM GAY? SIGNS YOU ARE GAY
• IF I WAS GAYANDREAS WIJKPRODUCED BYANDREAS WIJK & CARL-PHILIP STRöMNOV. 11, 20221 VIEWER1 CONTRIBUTORIF I WAS GAY LYRICS[VERSE 1]IF I WAS GAY, WOULD I BEWHAT THEY SAY, JT A STEREOTYPE?IF I WAS GAY, HOW DO I GET TO HEAVENWHEN THERE'S "NO CHURCH  THE WILD"?[PRE-CHOS]TRIED TO BE HONTBUT HONTLY I N'TNO, I N'TIF LOVE IS THE SAMEWHY IS THIS NOT THE SAME THG?THE SAME THG[CHOS]I'VE NEVER KISSED A BOYWOULD I LIKE THE WAY FEELS?PICTURG HIS FACE, AND I LOSE A PIECE OF MEPLAY ME ALL THE CLASSIC LOVE SONGS ON REPEATNONE OF THEM TALK ABOUT WHAT I FEELI'VE NEVER KISSED A BOYI'VE BEEN TRYG TO F KEPT A NDLE BURNG, A LAMP UNTO MY FEETPLAY ME ALL THE CLASSIC LOVE SONGS ON REPEATNONE OF THEM TALK ABOUT WHAT I FEELYOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE[VERSE 2]IF I WAS GAY, THERE WOULD BE NO IENDS LEFTAND I DON'T WANT THATIF I WAS GAY, MY MUM AND DAD WOULD TREAT MEAND I N'T HANDLE THAT SH[PRE-CHOS]TRIED TO BE HONTBUT HONTLY I N'TNO, I N'TIF LOVE IS THE SAMEWHY IS THIS NOT THE SAME THG?THE SAME THG[CHOS]I'VE NEVER KISSED A BOYWOULD I LIKE THE WAY FEELS?PICTURG HIS FACE, AND I LOSE A PIECE OF MEPLAY ME ALL THE CLASSIC LOVE SONGS ON REPEATNONE OF THEM TALK ABOUT WHAT I FEELI'VE NEVER KISSED A BOYI'VE BEEN TRYG TO F KEPT A NDLE BURNG, A LAMP UNTO MY FEETPLAY ME ALL THE CLASSIC LOVE SONGS ON REPEATNONE OF THEM TALK ABOUT WHAT I FEEL[BRIDGE]ALL THE TIME I'VE WASTEDTRYG TO REPLACETHE PART OF MYSELF THAT WAS KEEPG ME STRAIGHTIT JT MA ME A PRODUCT OF SO WHERE DO I F ?NOTHG N REPLACETHE SRS ON MY BODYCAN'T TALK TO NOBODY, I'M NUMB[CHOS]I'VE NEVER KISSED A BOYWOULD I LIKE THE WAY FEELS?PICTURG HIS FACE, AND I LOSE A PIECE OF MEPLAY ME ALL THE CLASSIC LOVE SONGS ON REPEATNONE OF THEM TALK ABOUT WHAT I FEELEMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUTHAVE THE SI SOP ON THIS SONG?SIGN UP AND DROP SOME KNOWLEDGESTART THE SONG BASK A QUTN ABOUT THIS SONGASK A QUTN *‌WHO PRODUCED “IF I WAS GAY” BY ANDREAS WIJK?WHEN DID ANDREAS WIJK RELEASE “IF I WAS GAY”?WHO WROTE “IF I WAS GAY” BY ANDREAS WIJK?CREDSPRODUCED BYANDREAS WIJK & CARL-PHILIP STRöMWRTEN BYANDREAS WIJK & CARL-PHILIP STRöMRELEASE DATENOVEMBER 11, 2022TAGSPOPEXPAND COMMENTSADD A MENTSIGN UP AND DROP KNOWLEDGE ?GENI IS THE ULTIMATE SOURCE OF MIC KNOWLEDGE, CREATED BY SCHOLARS LIKE YOU WHO SHARE FACTS AND SIGHT ABOUT THE SONGS AND ARTISTS THEY LOVE.SIGN UPGENI IS THE WORLD’S BIGGT LLECTN OF SONG LYRICS AND MIL KNOWLEDGE
• ANDREAS WIJK OPENS UP ABOUT HIS EMOTNAL SONG “IF I WAS GAY”
• ANDREAS WIJK IS A NEW PERSON AFTER HIS SGLE ‘IF I WAS GAY’
• AM I GAY? HOW DO YOU KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY?
• "WHAT IF I WAS GAY" LYRICS
• ‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS
• QT MARSHALL PCHED ANTHONY BOWENS 'I'M GAY' LE ON AEW RAMPAGE
• AM I GAY? QUIZ – 100% RELIABLE TT
• ALL 4 NY EPISPAL BISHOP NDIDAT WILL ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE IF ELECTED

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. 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. 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.

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

” 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. “Such statements, ” she wr, “fe blogil acunts wh an obligatory and nearly ercive force, suggtg that anyone who scrib homosexual sire as a choice or social nstctn is playg to the hands of the enemy.

” 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.

HOW TO KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY

In a 2012 terview wh New York Tim Magaze, the actrs sually mentned that homosexualy was, for her, a choice. Callg me “idtic” and “patently absurd”, Aravosis wrote, “The gay haters at the relig right uldn’t have wrten any better.

HOW DO I KNOW IF I AM GAY? SIGNS YOU ARE GAY

”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. In 1985, only 24% of Amerin rponnts said they had a gay iend, relative or -worker —  2013, that number was at 75%.

“It don’t seem to matter as much whether or not people believe that gay people are born that way as do that they simply know someone who is currently gay, ” Allen spe of the studi, those who ph agast Born This Way narrativ have been heavily cricised by gay activists. Siarly, Ward has received her own hatemail for phg agast the lg LGB narrativ, wh some gays tellg her she’s “worse than Ann Coulter, ” the ntroversial US thor of books like If Democrats Had Any Bras, They’d Be Republins.

IF I WAS GAYANDREAS WIJKPRODUCED BYANDREAS WIJK & CARL-PHILIP STRöMNOV. 11, 20221 VIEWER1 CONTRIBUTORIF I WAS GAY LYRICS[VERSE 1]IF I WAS GAY, WOULD I BEWHAT THEY SAY, JT A STEREOTYPE?IF I WAS GAY, HOW DO I GET TO HEAVENWHEN THERE'S "NO CHURCH  THE WILD"?[PRE-CHOS]TRIED TO BE HONTBUT HONTLY I N'TNO, I N'TIF LOVE IS THE SAMEWHY IS THIS NOT THE SAME THG?THE SAME THG[CHOS]I'VE NEVER KISSED A BOYWOULD I LIKE THE WAY FEELS?PICTURG HIS FACE, AND I LOSE A PIECE OF MEPLAY ME ALL THE CLASSIC LOVE SONGS ON REPEATNONE OF THEM TALK ABOUT WHAT I FEELI'VE NEVER KISSED A BOYI'VE BEEN TRYG TO F KEPT A NDLE BURNG, A LAMP UNTO MY FEETPLAY ME ALL THE CLASSIC LOVE SONGS ON REPEATNONE OF THEM TALK ABOUT WHAT I FEELYOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE[VERSE 2]IF I WAS GAY, THERE WOULD BE NO IENDS LEFTAND I DON'T WANT THATIF I WAS GAY, MY MUM AND DAD WOULD TREAT MEAND I N'T HANDLE THAT SH[PRE-CHOS]TRIED TO BE HONTBUT HONTLY I N'TNO, I N'TIF LOVE IS THE SAMEWHY IS THIS NOT THE SAME THG?THE SAME THG[CHOS]I'VE NEVER KISSED A BOYWOULD I LIKE THE WAY FEELS?PICTURG HIS FACE, AND I LOSE A PIECE OF MEPLAY ME ALL THE CLASSIC LOVE SONGS ON REPEATNONE OF THEM TALK ABOUT WHAT I FEELI'VE NEVER KISSED A BOYI'VE BEEN TRYG TO F KEPT A NDLE BURNG, A LAMP UNTO MY FEETPLAY ME ALL THE CLASSIC LOVE SONGS ON REPEATNONE OF THEM TALK ABOUT WHAT I FEEL[BRIDGE]ALL THE TIME I'VE WASTEDTRYG TO REPLACETHE PART OF MYSELF THAT WAS KEEPG ME STRAIGHTIT JT MA ME A PRODUCT OF SO WHERE DO I F ?NOTHG N REPLACETHE SRS ON MY BODYCAN'T TALK TO NOBODY, I'M NUMB[CHOS]I'VE NEVER KISSED A BOYWOULD I LIKE THE WAY FEELS?PICTURG HIS FACE, AND I LOSE A PIECE OF MEPLAY ME ALL THE CLASSIC LOVE SONGS ON REPEATNONE OF THEM TALK ABOUT WHAT I FEELEMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUTHAVE THE SI SOP ON THIS SONG?SIGN UP AND DROP SOME KNOWLEDGESTART THE SONG BASK A QUTN ABOUT THIS SONGASK A QUTN *‌WHO PRODUCED “IF I WAS GAY” BY ANDREAS WIJK?WHEN DID ANDREAS WIJK RELEASE “IF I WAS GAY”?WHO WROTE “IF I WAS GAY” BY ANDREAS WIJK?CREDSPRODUCED BYANDREAS WIJK & CARL-PHILIP STRöMWRTEN BYANDREAS WIJK & CARL-PHILIP STRöMRELEASE DATENOVEMBER 11, 2022TAGSPOPEXPAND COMMENTSADD A MENTSIGN UP AND DROP KNOWLEDGE ?GENI IS THE ULTIMATE SOURCE OF MIC KNOWLEDGE, CREATED BY SCHOLARS LIKE YOU WHO SHARE FACTS AND SIGHT ABOUT THE SONGS AND ARTISTS THEY LOVE.SIGN UPGENI IS THE WORLD’S BIGGT LLECTN OF SONG LYRICS AND MIL KNOWLEDGE

And when I published my say on choosg to be gay, an irate Amerin lbian activist wrote me that had “jt been nfirmed” to her that my wrg was “directly rponsible for four gay aths Rsia. There is a unanimo opn that gay “nversn therapy” should be rejectedLet’s first be clear that whatever the origs of our sexual orientatn, there is a unanimo opn that gay “nversn therapy” should be rejected.

ANDREAS WIJK OPENS UP ABOUT HIS EMOTNAL SONG “IF I WAS GAY”

The efforts are potentially harmful, acrdg to the APA, “bee they prent the view that the sexual orientatn of lbian, gay and bisexual youth is a mental illns of disorr, and they often ame the abily to change one’s sexual orientatn as a personal and moral failure. — but bee they’re qutn of what leads to homosexualy the first place, however, is obscure, even to the experts. The APA, for example, while notg that most people experience ltle to no choice over their orientatns, says this of homosexualy’s origs:“Although much rearch has examed the possible geic, hormonal, velopmental, social and cultural fluenc on sexual orientatn, no fdgs have emerged that perm scientists to nclu that sexual orientatn is termed by any particular factor or factors.

ANDREAS WIJK IS A NEW PERSON AFTER HIS SGLE ‘IF I WAS GAY’

”Siarly, the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn wr a 2013 statement that while the of heterosexualy and homosexualy are currently unknown, they are likely “multifactorial cludg blogil and behavral roots which may vary between different dividuals and may even vary over time. ”Te, var eye-grabbg headl over the years have claimed that some scientists have found somethg like The Gay Gene. ” Acrdg to LeVay’s rearch, a specific part of the bra, the third terstial nucls of the anterr hypothalam (INAH-3), is smaller homosexual men than is heterosexual as they might, scientists have stggled to inty any particular gen that nsistently predict the directns of our love and sire (Cred: Ignac Lehmann)Read moreYou n spot the problem wh this study a e away: were the gay bras LeVay studied born that way, or did they bee that way?

AM I GAY? HOW DO YOU KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY?

Another landmark paper on the origs of homosexualy was published 1993 by a geicist named Dean Hamer, who was terted to learn whether homosexualy uld be hered. Begng om his observatn that there are more gay relativ on a mother’s si than a father’s, Hamer turned his attentn to the X chromosome (which is passed on by the mother).

”A 2015 study sought to nfirm Hamer’s fdgs, this time wh a much larger sample: 409 pairs of gay brothers. Bis the dividual criqu leveled agast each new study announcg some gay gene disvery, there are major methodologil cricisms to make about the entire enterprise general, as Grzanka pots out: “If we look at the raveno pursu, particularly among Amerin scientists, to fd a gay gene, what we see is that the ncln has already been arrived at.

"WHAT IF I WAS GAY" LYRICS

”The other problem wh Born This Way science is summed up nicely by Simon Copland: “Scientists are askg whether homosexualy is natural when we n’t even agree exactly what homosexualy is. ” Our sir may exprs themselv many different ways that do not all nform to existg notns of ‘gay’, ‘straight’ or ‘bisexual’ is one of the bt takeaways of Ward’s Not Gay, a peratg analysis of sex between straight whe men. Gay men make up only a actn of the US populatn — yet Ward says that there are many men not clud that number who engage homosexual behavr.

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That’s bee terms like ‘heterosexual’ and ‘straight’ and ‘bisexual’ and ‘gay’ e wh all sorts of cultural baggage attached.

Ccially, she argu, “whether or not this baggage is appealg is a separate matter altogether om the appeal of homosexual or heterosexual sex. ”Gay or not, our sir are oriented and re-oriented throughout our liv (Cred: Ignac Lehmann)In fact, the straight-intified men Ward studied for her book sometim found themselv suatns that sparked the sire for homosexual sex: aterni, ployments, public rtrooms, etc.

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Ward thks this qutn is the next ontier of queer I first said I chose to be gay, a queer Amerin journalist challenged me to name the time and date of my choice. I’m claimg that at some pot durg llege, my sexual and romantic sir beme reoriented toward menThkg back to my llege romanc wh women and men, I n beg to unrstand how my own experienc might have helped me to ‘cultivate’ my sire for homosexualy. I want to be very clear: I’m not claimg I simply began to ‘grow to’ my homosexualy, or that as I beme more fortable wh beg gay, I allowed myself the eedom to exprs what had always been latent wh me.

“Limg our unrstandg of any plex human experience is always gog to be worse than allowg to be plited, ” he gay rights activists pared sexualy to relign - a ccial part of our life that we should be ee to practise however we like (Cred: Ignac Lehamann)So what are we to do wh the Born This Way rhetoric? Sendly, the entire search for a gay gene is predited upon the assumptn that homosexualy is not the natural or ‘flt’ state of a velopg human. “That’s a very narrow unrstandg of what jtice looks like, ” says about the ncern that homophob will want to ‘enurage’ gay people to be straight if there’s no blogil basis for sexualy?

It don’t take too much creativy to image a scenar which homophobic parents, upon beg rmed their fet has ‘the gay gene’, choose what to them may seem the lser of two evils: abortn. ”Acrdg to surveys, ls than half of Generatn Z intify as "100% heterosexual", suggtg more and more people have embraced their sexual fluidy (Cred: Ignac Lehmann)Perhaps is time to look to the begng of the gay rights movement.

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“Then there was a shift, and the lears of the movement chose to jump on board wh a ls nuanced argument that people already unrstood: jt like race, people are born wh their homosexualy.

Some experts have even started g tegori like ‘mostly straight’ and ‘mostly gay’ to try and expand our limed ways of viewg human sexualy.

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” Rponnts were asked to rate themselv on a sle om zero (which signified “pletely straight”) to six (“pletely homosexual”). More than a third chose a number between one and rponse to the poll, one of my Facebook iends quipped about how natural selectn mt be workg overtime, what wh makg all of gay!