Gay marriage and gay characters have bee stapl of work televisn. This season they are not only normal, they seem rigur.
Contents:
- GAY — THE NEW STRAIGHT
- WHAT I LEARNED FROM ‘LOVE, SIMON’: GAY IS THE NEW STRAIGHT
- WHAT DO THE NEW ‘GAY GEN’ TELL ABOUT SEXUAL ORIENTATN?
- ATRALIAN COMEDIAN STEVE HUGH ON WHY "GAY IS THE NEW STRAIGHT"
- GAY — THE NEW STRAIGHT — I DONT THK SO!
- ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER
- WHAT THE WORLD CAN LEARN FROM GAY-STRAIGHT FRIENDSHIPS
- PEOPLE N INTIFY WHETHER A MAN IS GAY OR STRAIGHT BY THEIR VOICE. BISEXUALS? NOT SO MUCH
- SOME GAYS CAN GO STRAIGHT, STUDY SAYS
GAY — THE NEW STRAIGHT
Many young men intify as mostly straight — a sexual orientatn that is not que straight but also, they say, ls gay than bisexualy * gay is the new straight *
If you’re a young man, you might assume that eher you’re straight or you’re not, meang you’re likely gay and maybe bisexual.
WHAT I LEARNED FROM ‘LOVE, SIMON’: GAY IS THE NEW STRAIGHT
As more homosexuals e out and jo the mastream, the gay inty be ls distctive. * gay is the new 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.
WHAT DO THE NEW ‘GAY GEN’ TELL ABOUT SEXUAL ORIENTATN?
Two gene variants have been found to be more mon gay men. New Scientist looks at what this tells about the way blogy shap our sexualy * gay is the new straight *
Tradnally, our unrstandg has been that if you’re male and have even a slight attractn to the same sex, then you mt be gay.
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.
ATRALIAN COMEDIAN STEVE HUGH ON WHY "GAY IS THE NEW STRAIGHT"
Steve Hugh, an Atralian edian, talks about how England if you wear an earrg your left ear mak you gay whereas Atralia, 's havg another man... * gay is the new straight *
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. The Williams Instute at UCLA Law School will release a report today by mographer Gary Gat that all but pos the qutn: Is gay the new straight?
GAY — THE NEW STRAIGHT — I DONT THK SO!
A veteran gay activist gets enspired to tear to a recent Gregory Rodriguez lumn. * gay is the new straight *
Cens data driv home a pot that the gay vanguard has been wrtlg wh for a while: The hedonistic, transgrsive, radil ethos (and stereotype) that once characterized gay culture don’t reprent realy anymore.
ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER
LGBTQIA+ is an abbreviatn for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer or qutng, tersex, asexual, and more. The terms are ed to scribe a person’s sexual orientatn or genr inty. * gay is the new straight *
Has Gat fotten about the 45 stat that have laws or nstutnal amendments barrg same-sex marriage, or the anti-gay discrimatn bill that is stalled Congrs and fac opposn om the Whe Hoe? There is, he says, a vol, vilent -- and sometim vlent -- anti-gay movement, but don’t negate s of opn surveys that show a marked crease tolerance most Amerins’ attus toward gays and lbians.
In 1998, for example, a Gallup poll found that only 33% of Amerins thought that homosexual relatns between nsentg adults should be legal. Growg acceptance of homosexualy means a cle social stigma associated wh same-sex relatnships, and a nsequent shift the polics of g out.
WHAT THE WORLD CAN LEARN FROM GAY-STRAIGHT FRIENDSHIPS
Even more untertuive, om 2000 to 2006, stat that banned same-sex marriage had above-average creas the number of gay upl. And plac where voter referendums went agast same-sex marriag saw even larger of the growth the number of openly gay upl nservative areas uld be bee of migratn.
PEOPLE N INTIFY WHETHER A MAN IS GAY OR STRAIGHT BY THEIR VOICE. BISEXUALS? NOT SO MUCH
And y, some on-the-barris members of the gay rights movement have gotten olr and mellower and moved out to the heartland. But the larger trend is simply that as more gays e out, they don’t need to change or assiate to f to the mastream bee they are already very much a part of . If you’re om a state like Utah or Nebraska, chanc are you’re gog to share a lot wh your neighbors whether you’re straight or gay: “They’re ral, ” Gat says, “they’re relig, and they’re Republin.
SOME GAYS CAN GO STRAIGHT, STUDY SAYS
It means that the culture once associated wh gay inty be ls distctive om the don’t believe that the trends spell an end of gay “associatnal” life. As gays meld to the broar populatn, plac like Wt Hollywood and the Castro district San Francis will evably lose some of their appeal.
As more gays e out more plac, the diversy of homosexual polics and liftyl will e out wh them, and the tolerant will some of the pneers om the edgy, embattled, ecstatic “good old days, ” this may be btersweet.