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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.

GAY KISS

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.

GAYS VS. STRAIGHTS: ANY DIFFERENC SEXUAL SATISFACTN?

)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. "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.

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

Four straight men French kissed four gay men on mera to experiment wh their sexualy and challenge societal notns of masculy. ”Check out the vio above to see the rults, and head here for more om Bria and You GoFavore Gay TV CouplPopular the CommunyYou May Like. 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.

HOW GAY UPL TV MERCIALS BEME A MASTREAM PHENOMENON

S- Will and Grace (1998-2006) went several seasons before gay character Will ever kissed a male partner.

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

In cemas, the first gay kiss seen Atralia may well have been the Brish film Sunday, Bloody Sunday (1971), released lolly 1972.

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.