Who Are the Happit? Straights and Gays, but Not Bisexuals | Psychology Today

Contents:

• GAY (HOMOSEXUAL) AND GAY (HAPPY)
• WHO ARE THE HAPPIT? STRAIGHTS AND GAYS, BUT NOT BISEXUALS
• ARE GAY MEN HAPPIER THAN STRAIGHT MEN?
• LET’S SAY GAY
• HAPPY VS GAY - WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?HAPPY | GAY |AS ADJECTIV THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HAPPY AND GAYIS THAT HAPPY IS EXPERIENCG THE EFFECT OF FAVOURABLE FORTUNE; HAVG THE FEELG ARISG OM THE NSCNS OF WELL-BEG OR OF ENJOYMENT; ENJOYG GOOD OF ANY KD, AS PEACE, TRANQUILLY, FORT; NTENTED; JOYO WHILE GAY IS HAPPY, JOYFUL, AND LIVELY.AS A PROPER NOUN GAY IS{{SURNAME|A=AN|ENGLISH|OM=NICKNAM}}, ORIGALLY A NICKNAME FOR A CHEERFUL OR LIVELY PERSON.AS A NOUN GAY ISA HOMOSEXUAL, PECIALLY A MALE HOMOSEXUAL; SEE ALSO LBIAN.AS A VERB GAY ISTO MAKE HAPPY OR CHEERFUL.HAPPY
• GAY

GAY (HOMOSEXUAL) AND GAY (HAPPY)

Tom Robson a Brish mician and sger, one of the first, if not the very first pop artist who did not disguise or hi his homosexualy om the general public. Until then homosexual actors, micians, athlet or anyone the public eye had two choic life: to keep their homosexualy a secret, pecially om the media, or adopt the mannerisms and a of drs which were very mp but at the same time (ironilly) never admtg their sexual preferenc publicly. Tom Robson released a very succsful song entled (Sg if you're) Glad to be Gay, was the mid-70s, and I was still at a Catholic primary school when I remember que distctly hearg gay beg ed for the first time to unteract the BrEng rogatory terms such as: poofter, poof, queer, not normal, fairy and queen that were rife at the time.

Glad to be Gay. The song was origally wrten by Tom Robson for a London gay pri. An out gay sger, he subsequently formed the.

"Glad to Be Gay" is built around four vers cricizg Brish society's attus towards gay people. In the first verse, criciz the Brish police for raidg gay pubs for no reason at all, once homosexualy had been crimalized sce the 1967 Sexual Offenc Act.

WHO ARE THE HAPPIT? STRAIGHTS AND GAYS, BUT NOT BISEXUALS

In the send verse, pots to the hypocrisy of Gay News beg prosecuted for obsceny stead of porn magaz like magaz Playboy or the tabloid The Sun which publish photographs of topls girls on Page 3.

ARE GAY MEN HAPPIER THAN STRAIGHT MEN?

It also criciz the way homosexual people are portrayed other parts of the prs, pecially nservative newspapers News of the World and Sunday Exprs. On the third verse, pots out the extreme nsequenc of homophobia, such as vlence agast LGBT people. For me, a young child livg London at the time, the term gay (meang homosexual and not "happy") was ed much more equently by the media and the general public after the release of "Glad to be Gay".

LET’S SAY GAY

It also helped that Tom Robson looked straight and was not the least mp, he did not f the stereotypil ia of how homosexuals looked and behaved. ” Optns of gay/lbian; bisexual; heterosexual or straight; or don’t know.

” [only 4 optns, neglect inti such as mostly straight, pansexual, mostly gay, asexual, kk, qutng]. Only 2% intified as gay/lbian and only 2% intified as bisexual. Counter to mon sense, over a third of those wh lifelong same-sex partners and nearly half of those wh lifelong both-sex partners intified not as gay or bisexual but as straight.

HAPPY VS GAY - WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?HAPPY | GAY |AS ADJECTIV THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HAPPY AND GAYIS THAT HAPPY IS EXPERIENCG THE EFFECT OF FAVOURABLE FORTUNE; HAVG THE FEELG ARISG OM THE NSCNS OF WELL-BEG OR OF ENJOYMENT; ENJOYG GOOD OF ANY KD, AS PEACE, TRANQUILLY, FORT; NTENTED; JOYO WHILE GAY IS HAPPY, JOYFUL, AND LIVELY.AS A PROPER NOUN GAY IS{{SURNAME|A=AN|ENGLISH|OM=NICKNAM}}, ORIGALLY A NICKNAME FOR A CHEERFUL OR LIVELY PERSON.AS A NOUN GAY ISA HOMOSEXUAL, PECIALLY A MALE HOMOSEXUAL; SEE ALSO LBIAN.AS A VERB GAY ISTO MAKE HAPPY OR CHEERFUL.HAPPY

If you ed an inty measure, gays, lbians, and bisexuals were ls happy than straights. If, however, you ed same-sex behavr, gays and lbians were as happy as straights, but not so for dividuals wh both-sex partners--they remaed relatively unhappy. Bee the vast majory of dividuals who intify as bisexual are women (equently the 60% to 80% range), any study that b gays/lbians wh bisexuals and fds negative mental or physil health problems likely distorts our unrstandg of sexual mori and th tells ltle about male bisexuals, gay mal, and lbians.

Th, if the goal of rearch is to document the problematic nature of beg gay, lbian, or bisexual, asssg sexual inty is the way to go.

Bottom le: Be reful what you read, hear, and believe about gays, lbians, and bisexuals. A good illtratn of the facts is the recent spate of news stori about how gay men are happier than heterosexual men.

GAY

"A new study has found that gay and bisexual men are ls likely to be prsed and have psychologil problems than heterosexual men.

"Of urse gays are ls strsed. Alas, none of this good news for gays and spankg fetishists is really backed up by the data the origal study, which, while trigug, is hardly evince that is beg out and gay that mak men happier (let alone women).

For one, the study reced participants Montreal, a large and fairly progrsive cy where beg openly gay do not e wh high social or enomic sts. While gay men the study seemed to experience ls strs and prsn than straight men, there are a variety of alternative explanatns that might expla this fact (like whether they worked out or not; whether they had children or not; e level and stabily). In other words, you might be out at work and at home, but if your grandparents don't know you're gay, then you're marked as closeted.