A new poll says 5.6 percent of Amerins intify as gay, bisexual, or transgenr.
Contents:
- “WHY ARE THERE SO MANY GAY PEOPLE THE DAYS?”
- PEACHY KEENAN: EVERYONE IS GAY, N YOU BLAME THEM?
- ‘I AM GAY – BUT I WASN’T BORN THIS WAY’
“WHY ARE THERE SO MANY GAY PEOPLE THE DAYS?”
More Amerins than ever are scribg themselv as gay, bisexual, or transgenr, Gallup reported today a newly released poll. The poll rults show an creased willgns to self-intify across all four tegori: More people are willg to ll themselv gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr.
And that relative g the term “queer” as the slur was origally might wonr why seems like there are a lot more trans and gay folks the days than there ed to be. Comg out this day and age is much easier than g out the 30s or the 70s or, hell, even the morn tim, homosexualy was seen as a mental disorr, and still is var parts of the world.
If you live the Amerin South, as I do, you would know that there are people who wholeheartedly believe the world should still be this example, I remember beg eleven years old and my uber-Catholic grandfather tellg me that AIDS was God’s way of punishg the gays.
PEACHY KEENAN: EVERYONE IS GAY, N YOU BLAME THEM?
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‘I AM GAY – BUT I WASN’T BORN THIS WAY’
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