Civili: What’s so upsettg about a gay uple kissg public? - The Washgton Post

Contents:

• CIVILI: WHAT’S SO UPSETTG ABOUT A GAY UPLE KISSG PUBLIC?
• GAY KISS
• GAYS VS. STRAIGHTS: ANY DIFFERENC SEXUAL SATISFACTN?
• EQUAL RIGHT TO KISS? WHY YOU MAY BE DISGTED BY GAY BEHAVR WHOUT KNOWG IT
• HOW GAY UPL TV MERCIALS BEME A MASTREAM PHENOMENON
• LGBT REPRENTATN ON TV THROUGH THE AG – OM EASTENRS’ FIRST GAY KISS TO TRANSGENR SUPERHERO

CIVILI: WHAT’S SO UPSETTG ABOUT A GAY UPLE KISSG PUBLIC?

Ser and lleagu noted that whereas straight upl almost always kiss before havg terurse, gay youths ually have their first kiss (at least wh a guy) durg an terurse ssn. Hence, the age when a straight boy ually has his first kiss wh a girl is 14; for a gay boy (wh another boy), is three years later, at age 17. ” About one-third had engaged “staed same-sex kissg, somethg they nsted as non-sexual and non-homosexual.

Perhaps non-kissg dividuals are simply not on a normative schle terms of emotnal timacy and homosocial velopment more generally.

For gay boys, sex first, emotnal nnectn later—whether this is changg is unknown. )The se of the kissg gays might seem like an anomaly or much ado about not very much. In other words, the bar owner was wh her legal right to ask the gay uple to leave for their alleged public-display-of-affectn actn.

GAY KISS

"I thk everythg gay people do is policized, " said Shannon Gilreath, a profsor of law at Wake Fort Universy. Among heterosexuals, only 55 percent approve of gay men kissg on the cheek public, pared wh a whoppg 95 percent who say that 's okay for straight upl. Even among gay and lbian upl there is some disfort wh the ia of same-sex kissg public, whether 's bee of fear of vlence or ternalized homophobia.

” To that I say “ick” — jt as I would if were a gay may be that the furor surroundg kissg means we need to raise the bar, so to speak, on public displays of affectn. Four straight men French kissed four gay men on mera to experiment wh their sexualy and challenge societal notns of masculy.

GAYS VS. STRAIGHTS: ANY DIFFERENC SEXUAL SATISFACTN?

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A long history of censorship and erasure has weighted the gay kiss wh meang and often exclud om view. The growg prence of gay characters on televisn has not necsarily dited growg fort wh displays of same-sex affectn.

Popular 1990s soap Melrose Place (1992-1999) was known for s steamy romanc, but gay character Matt only ever participated an ocsnal manly hug. S- Will and Grace (1998-2006) went several seasons before gay character Will ever kissed a male partner. In cemas, the first gay kiss seen Atralia may well have been the Brish film Sunday, Bloody Sunday (1971), released lolly 1972.

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

But the arrival of that first gay screen kiss didn’t mean that thgs had changed forever.

As late as 1993, the film Philalphia focsed on a gay male uple, one of whom was dyg of AIDS.

HOW GAY UPL TV MERCIALS BEME A MASTREAM PHENOMENON

Rather, my pot is that a long history of excludg same-sex affectn om public view and the refal to see or reveal queer liv has had specific effects on lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer (LGBTQ) people.

A study by the Atralian Human Rights Commissn found that, through the year 2012, verbal abe had been experienced by a quarter of all gay men and lbians, 47% of trans men and 37% of trans women. The pot of homophobic, biphobic and transphobic vlence is to enforce the ntued visibily of LGBTQ people. Whether you love watchg gay men kiss bee 's adorable, or bee 's a way to monstrate one's pri, has everythg you uld want.

Televison shows like How to Get Away wh Murr, Empire, Fakg It, and Morn Fay are workg diligently toward normalizg the display of gay affectn. Some ll gaybag, but isn't jt a ploy for ratgs or tillatn, remas a rebell and celebratory act for many around the globe. In realy a kiss might be meangls, but means a great al when a major work broadsts a gay kiss to lns.

LGBT REPRENTATN ON TV THROUGH THE AG – OM EASTENRS’ FIRST GAY KISS TO TRANSGENR SUPERHERO

(skip to 26:40)RoseanneABC's Roseanne embraced ntroversy, cludg numero gay-clive moments.