PEACHY KEENAN: Everyone is gay, n you blame them? | Human Events |

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?

There are still a few homophob among Millennials and Gen Z-ers, but progrs is beg bottom le is this: beg gay, bi, trans, or what have you is not some “trend” ma up by today’s youth. ” (The first openly LGBTQ+ doll, Gay Bob, was released 1977. “I do rell the male Mattel signer—who was married wh several children and workg on the project—sayg to me: ‘They will turn Ken gay wh this doll!

In Team Ameri, the 2004 puppet edy om the creators of South Park, there’s a scene that satiriz the prevalence of gay-themed stage plays of that era (Angels Ameri, Rent, etc. The gay or lbian populatn has creased by 26% and the percentage of stunts intifyg as bisexual has creased by 232%. I myself am part of the lgbtq+ muny, I'm a transgenr woman and am gay.

Girls that bullied me elementary and middle school now joke about wantg a gay bt iend. I spent years beg bullied, and here are the girls I grew up wh mentg 'omg so gay I love ' on pictur wh me and my boyiend. “You n’t be gay.

‘I AM GAY – BUT I WASN’T BORN THIS WAY’

You so obvly nnot be gay, was her implitn, bee this is good was 2006, a full five years before Lady Gaga would set the Born This Way argument atop s unassailable cultural perch, but even then the popular unrstandg of orientatn was that was somethg you were born wh, somethg you uldn’t change. I me out at a nservative Christian llege the US and was a gay relatnship for around two years wh a basketball player who end up marryg a woman.

Well, you mt have been gay the whole time, some might thk, and bee of some relig shame, you cid to lie to yourself and experiment wh a girl. But what feels most accurate to say is that I’m gay – but I wasn’t born this people may fd their sir changg directn - and n't jt be explaed as experimentatn (Cred: Ignac Lehmann)In 1977, jt over 10% of Amerins thought gayns was somethg you were born wh, acrdg to Gallup. Throughout the same perd, the number of Amerins who believe homosexualy is “due to someone’s upbrgg/environment” fell om jt unr 60% to ias reached cril mass pop culture, first wh Lady Gaga’s 2011 Born This Way and one year later wh Macklemore’s Same Love, the chos of which has a gay person sgg “I n’t change even if I tried, even if I wanted to.

” Vios started circulatg on the ter featurg gay people askg straight people “when they chose to be straight. ” 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.