Sara Cunngham created the group "Free Mom Hugs," which promot gay pri through hugs.
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"I KNOW THAT ONE HUG MEANS EVERYTHG": ONE MOTHER'S JOURNEY TO ENURAGE GAY PRI WH HUGS
So he orred a shirt onle – wh the words “Free Dad Hugs” large prt – and head om his home Karns Cy, Pennsylvania, to Ptsburgh for the annual gay pri para on June 9. "My parents are not supportive of me beg gay so jt felt good to have somebody say that, " Angel Gomez told CBS News.
Soclogists like Ibson intify the pathologizg of sexualy durg the begng of the twentieth century—the suggtn that huggg and kissg other men didn’t jt note a specific sexual inty, but that homosexualy was some sort of dysfunctn—as the spark that drove tradnal Amerin bro-dom to an artificial Mark Greene dubbed the cle of male ntact photographs and media throughout the twentieth century “touch isolatn, ” a homophobic reactn to du-on-du timacy that evolved alongsi the straight-laced culture of the 1950s that has robbed men of healthy physil teractn wh other men. Women are enuraged to hug and olic like they're a Taylor Swift vio, but accintally snag your bt bud’s hand while reachg for the check and bam: You might be gay, buddy boy—or, worse, a mie. John IbsonIt was the social nservatism of the 1950s that helped nflate healthy male timacy wh homosexualy durg the postwar anti-munist fervor.
“It’s don’t jt show up photographs, but letters and whatnot—there’s a great al more fort and ls of a ncern over the implitns of male physil affectn until historil thgs like McCarthy’s nflatn of munism wh queerns forced Amerins to live unr a shadow of homosexual panic. ”Even wh the rise of the ee-love hippie unterculture of the 1960s and ’70s and rultg liberalizatn of Amerin sexual attus over the past few generatns, that same gay paranoia still persists ep the heart of the male psyche. Bros high-five, hug, and slap butts after a touchdown or other more emotnally charged moments all the time (rearch suggts that all-du boozefts are prime grounds for “exploratn”), but prolonged physil ntact holds the risk of steppg over that visible le between straight and gay—or jt pla male touch isn’t jt sential for childhood velopment, ntribut to our overall emotnal well-beg as morn men.