Beg Gay is Disgtg by Edward Falzon · OverDrive: ebooks, dbooks, and more for librari and schools

Contents:

• "WE'RE DISGTED WH QUEERS, NOT FEARFUL OF THEM": THE INTERRELATNSHIPS AMONG DISGT, GAY MEN'S SEXUAL BEHAVR, AND HOMONEGATIVY
• WHAT’S WRONG WH BEG “GAY”? HERE’S WHAT THEY DON’T TELL YOU -- AND ’S REALLY DISTURBG.
• GAY CULTURE HAS GROWN TOXIC WH UNCHECKED PRIVILEGE. IT'S TIME FOR TO RET
• I THK GAYS ARE DISGTG, BUT STILL TREAT THEM AS NORMAL PEOPLE. AM I A BAD PERSON?
• EQUAL RIGHT TO KISS? WHY YOU MAY BE DISGTED BY GAY BEHAVR WHOUT KNOWG IT
• LARGE STUDY DIT DISGT SENSIVY IS LKED TO PREJUDICE TOWARD GAY MEN AND LBIAN WOMEN
• BEG GAY IS DISGTG
• BEG GAY IS DISGTG - SOFTVER

"WE'RE DISGTED WH QUEERS, NOT FEARFUL OF THEM": THE INTERRELATNSHIPS AMONG DISGT, GAY MEN'S SEXUAL BEHAVR, AND HOMONEGATIVY

Usg a batn of personal reflectns, published lerature, and origal empiril rearch, we argue that the disgt triggered by gay men's sexual practic (specifilly, anal terurse) is a cril, though overlooked, ntributor to heterosexual men and women's homonegativy (i. It has bee accepted wisdom most pole circl – as well as schools, ernment, rporate Ameri, and certaly the popular culture – that homosexual behavr is a normal and natural variatn of life.

As Gabriel Rotello—thor of Sexual Elogy: AIDS and the Dty of Gay Men and founr of OutWeek Magaze—wrote, “sexual brotherhood of promiscuy … any abandonment of that promiscuy would amount to a munal betrayal of gargantuan proportns. Rotello also said, “A stranger to gay culture, unaware of the realy of AIDS, might believe om much of the gay prs that HIV fectn was a sort of elixir that produced high self-teem, solved long-standg psychologil and substance abe problems, and enhanced physil appearance … creatg the subnsc imprsn that fectn—the ‘penalty’ of unsafe sex—is really not so bad after all. But even though the nversatns that muted this lumn for six weeks are nowhere close to beg over, I do feel like some thgs that me up durg that time of ntemplatn are worth sayg now — particularly to my fellow whe gay cis out more stori on LGBTQ+ ins and activistsHowever, the ghost of Larry Kramer very much remaed my own head as I ma my way through a Pri month unlike any other.

I spent a few quiet afternoons readg his 1978 but novel Faggots, a satiril (yet clearly tobgraphil) look at the liv of gay men 1970s New York Cy that he wrote jt before AIDS ma him a figurehead of Amerin activism. Followg a man his late 30s (based on Kramer himself) who is seekg out a lovg, long-term relatnship a sea of hedonism, the novel has a clear msage: gay men need to start lovg each other stead of beg so obssed wh gettg fucked up and (lerally and figuratively) fuckg each other.

WHAT’S WRONG WH BEG “GAY”? HERE’S WHAT THEY DON’T TELL YOU -- AND ’S REALLY DISTURBG.

In mastream gay media, the phrase almost always refers to a fairly specific subset of the LGBTQ "muny" largely ma up of whe gay cis men — even though many of the battl won around queer rights were fought by people of lour, trans and genr-nonnformg folks, and queer women, and fact the morn Pri movement self was large part iated by Black trans women.

If an imprsn of a monolhic "gay culture" fed by such a homogeneo mographic exists, is bee whe gay cis men have until very recently domated mastream reprentatn unr the LGBTQ umbrella and have, general, been hand a level of privilege the last that is wildly disproportnate to any other mographic unr said umbrella. When was the last time I actually had a good time at gay bar full of people I have fely spoken to on social media or apps but who act like I'm pletely sane when I se or say hello person?

In analyzg the show's pictn of young gay men livg San Francis, wrer Daniel Wenger diagnos what he terms the "new gay sadns": an entire generatn of urban, privileged gay men who seem to have no clue what they're lookg for or who they are. Largely born the 1980s, they are the earlit wave of a "post-Stonewall, post-plague, post-activist" generatn of gays — "too old to have brought a boy to the prom and too young to have nursed a fantasy of nng away to an urban gay utopia, " Wenger explas.

GAY CULTURE HAS GROWN TOXIC WH UNCHECKED PRIVILEGE. IT'S TIME FOR TO RET

Queeri5 pneerg LGBTQ Canadian films you n watch for ee right nowI've seen many of my fellow whe gay cis men seemgly rise to the ocsn by retweetg Black and Indigeno voic, gog to ralli and vowg to te themselv on how to tly be anti-racist (though how performative that is some s is unclear). Rettg "gay culture" will require fightg back agast entrenched social prsur and expectatns of gay cis men — and llg them out when they perpetuate, even passively, any form of discrimatory dialogue.

I THK GAYS ARE DISGTG, BUT STILL TREAT THEM AS NORMAL PEOPLE. AM I A BAD PERSON?

And was large part bee of that attu that he uld lead AIDS activists through a rpt and homophobic system to ga accs to the dgs that ma possible for our generatn to have the liv that we do.

Assumg you have neher the time nor the tert readg through more than 650 onle ments on the issue of homosexualy and moraly posted jt this week to Change of Subject, let me offer, below, the top 7 arguments om rears who supported the posn of Gen. The thgs have a very, very important social purpose that volv timacy, pannship, secury and other forms of happs that nearly everyone striv everyone were homosexual, the human race would die out.

In the ments area, rears and I discsed at great length what Juo-Christian scripture really says about homosexualy and what else says about other matters --- slavery, the role of women, smetics and so on. This is a topic that the homosexualy advot do not want you to fd out about, bee you may fd some of the sexual acts to be unnatural and/or perverted, even disgtg, and so not support their homosexual agenda.

EQUAL RIGHT TO KISS? WHY YOU MAY BE DISGTED BY GAY BEHAVR WHOUT KNOWG IT

Here is a list of some of the most mon sexual practic associated wh a homosexual liftyle: anal-digal manipulatn, anal pulatn, vagal/oral sex, dildo/vagal sex, rimmg, fistg and goln showers (1, 3, 10, 12). “Both bee of high-risk behavr patterns, such as sexual promiscuy, and bee of the harm to the body om specific sexual acts, homosexuals are at a greater risk than heterosexuals for sexually transmted diseas and other forms of illns and jury. Many other notable diseas and trmas are associated, at elevated levels, wh the gay liftyle, cludg anal ncers, hepatis A and B, syphilis, gonorrhea, and Chlamydia (all of which are STDs), proctis, anal fistula, perirectal abscs, anal fissure, anorectal trma, anorectal ntence, rectal ulcers and lymphogranuloma venerm.

LARGE STUDY DIT DISGT SENSIVY IS LKED TO PREJUDICE TOWARD GAY MEN AND LBIAN WOMEN

The velopment and e of new anti-retroviral dgs sce the early 1990s has signifintly rced the ath rat attributable to HIV/AIDS among gay men the same area and apparently rulted an crease of 3. Gay activists assume that the differentially elevated levels of mental health problems are a rult of social and stctural stigmas aimed at homosexual people by a heterosexual, homophobic society, rather than havg anythg to do wh the homosexual experience per se.

In other words, uld be that the elevated levels of mental health problems experienced by homosexual people are simply an direct rult of beg homosexual a heterosexual world, rather than a rult of social and stctural stigmas created by a homophobic, heterosexual majory? Regardls of why sexual mori have elevated levels of mental health problems, we should always treat homosexual people wh appropriate exprsns of love, kdns and rpect, as the are fed the Bible.

BEG GAY IS DISGTG

And we should always be quick to share the good news of the Gospel of J Christ wh homosexual people when the opportuny prents self, keepg md that we are all ma the image and likens of God and are arly loved by Him. Basilly, there are at least three documented lks between homosexualy and pedophilia: 1) the percentage of male homosexuals among nvicted child molters is 6-20 tim higher than the percentage of male homosexuals the general populatn, ditg a direct rrelatn between homosexualy and pedophilia; 2) the velopment of both homosexualy and pedophilia is strongly fluenced by some factor related to birth orr, ditg that homosexualy and pedophilia have a mon etlogy (i.

While NAMBLA is an embarrassment to many the homosexual “muny”, their prence is, nohels, a real part of the homosexual movement Ameri, as adult-youth sex is viewed as an important aspect of gay culture (10, 14). So should not be surprisg at all that the preponrance of valid evince dit that many male homosexual child molters also exhib a dual sexual orientatn, one beg sex-based, and the other age-based.

BEG GAY IS DISGTG - SOFTVER

Although the AIDS epimic among male homosexuals prompted the creased practice of protected sex among gay men for a time, was not long before many of them threw utn to the wd and returned to their former practice of unprotected sex: “There were so many AIDS aths that survivg homosexuals panicked and voluntarily rced risky sexual practic.

As a rult, HIV fectns and rectal gonorrhea soared among homosexuals…”; “At the same time, rapid progrs the velopment of new antiretroviral therapi rulted an announcement at the 11th World AIDS Conference Vanuver that batn therapy guid by viral load measurements uld potentially prevent HIV disease progrsn fely, if not cure the fectn outright. Sce 1991 and ntug through the middle of the first of the twentyfirst century, there has been a steady crease the rate of unprotected anal terurse among homosexuals who largely scribe themselv as “burned out” on safer sex or rigned to the fact that they will eher bee fected or fect their primary partners.

In a 2000 Brish NATSAL survey, a random and populatn-based sample, men wh a homosexual partner durg the past 5 years reported havg 110 sex partners durg that time, pared wh 8 sexual partners among those men who reported havg no homosexual partnerships (9). Rearch has shown that homosexual relatnships are far ls likely to last a lifetime and that fily is much more mon (and is even nsired acceptable) homosexual relatnships when pared to heterosexual relatnships (5, 6, 12).