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Contents:
- ‘I AM GAY – BUT I WASN’T BORN THIS WAY’
- WHY AM I GAY?
- AM I GAY?
- AM I GAY, STRAIGHT, LBIAN, BISEXUAL OR LGBTQ+?
- I LIKE GUYS BUT I DON’T WANT TO BE GAY. HOW DO I STOP BEG GAY?
‘I AM GAY – BUT I WASN’T BORN THIS WAY’
Are you qutng your sexualy? Fd out if you’re gay, straight, bisexual, or asexual. Learn what the terms mean and if they apply to you. * why am j gay *
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Some people may thk they n gus if a person is lbian, gay, or bisexual based on superficial factors like how they look, drs, or behave.
WHY AM I GAY?
The are stereotyp, or very simplified judgments, about how lbian, gay, and bisexual people act.
But jt like heterosexuals, there are many different ways that homosexual and bisexual people look, drs, and behave.
AM I GAY?
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AM I GAY, STRAIGHT, LBIAN, BISEXUAL OR LGBTQ+?
” 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.
I LIKE GUYS BUT I DON’T WANT TO BE GAY. HOW DO I STOP BEG GAY?
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