Gay Rights - Movement, Marriage & Flag | HISTORY

Contents:

• #715 IS IT ALL RIGHT TO BE GAY?
• AM I GAY?
• THE ALT-RIGHT'S ONGOG OBSSN WH DEMONIZG GAY PEOPLE AS PREDATORS
• GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
• GAY RIGHTS

#715 IS IT ALL RIGHT TO BE GAY?

If you read books like ‘The Velvet Rage’ by Alan Downs, you’ll e to the realisatn that this stereotypil homosexual ‘liftyle’ is to fill a void om a lifetime of hurt and societal opprsn (of which, the Church has a huge part to answer for). I agree that God n e gay people to show me how to be a better Christian, not the sense of promisg biblil moral teachg, but the sense of beg a humble listener, a sympathetic brother, and a lovg person who accepts others wh whom I disagree ethilly. The ma purpose of my article “A Christian Perspective on Homosexualy” is to articulate and fend the view that while one’s sexual orientatn may be beyond one’s ntrol, neverthels our behavr is not and that God has proscribed homosexual behavr.

AM I GAY?

Gay - While this adjective has historilly scribed men who are attracted to other men, the term now is ed to refer to anyone who experienc romantic, emotnal, or physil attractn to people of the same genr. My last post scribed a populatn of mal who nsir themselv heterosexual, do not label themselv gay or bisexual, chew volvement wh the LGBT muny, are often married or romantilly volved wh an oppose-sex partner, and who engage sex wh mal or exprs the sire to do so.

Due large part to the popularizatn of the topic the btsellg 2005 book On the Down Low: A Journey to the Liv of 'Straight' Black Men Who Sleep wh Men, [i] Lato and Ain-Amerin men are the primary subjects rearch wh non-gay intified MSM. One of the earlit studi, "The Bisexual and Non-Gay Attached Rearch Project" om the early 1990s, found that participants engagg same-sex sexual behavr but not intifyg as gay or bisexual scribed themselv as “kky, ” “normal, ” or “jt a guy. [iii] Daryl Hood, Garrett Prtage, June Crawford, Tania Sorrell, and Chris O’Reilly, "Report on the BANGAR Project: Bisexual Activy/non Gay Attachment Rearch Targetg Strategi Intifitn Project.

Ramamurthi, Cleo Manago, Serg Ava, and Marv Jon, “Sexual Behavr, Sexual Inty, and Substance Abe Among Low-Ine Bisexual and Non-Gay-Intifyg Ain Amerin Men Who Have Sex wh Men, ” Archiv of Sexual Behavr 37, no. It’s been 10 years sce “The Kids Are All Right, ” a queer fay dramedy that was the darlg of that year’s Sundance Film Ftival, charted an unlikely ri to the Osrs and helped shift popular opn about gay marriage.

THE ALT-RIGHT'S ONGOG OBSSN WH DEMONIZG GAY PEOPLE AS PREDATORS

While pictns of gay life films and TV seri typilly portray LGBT+ people as polilly-active progrsiv, there is a growg swath of LGBT+ nservativ real-life, some of whom hold far right iologi — a juxtaposn that often shocks those enunterg for the first time.

GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

This recent report highlights a signifint divi that has existed and persists wh the LGBT+ muny — whether we have moved beyond the shared experience of margalizatn that gave rise to the movement, or if we have entered to a "post-gay" era. Among those promotg the ias are Jordan Peterson; gay polil mentator Dave Rub, who if has not directly promoted Great Replacement theory has promoted transphobic and anti-lbian rhetoric; venture palist Peter Thiel; and Sam Harris — all "members" of the Intellectual Dark Web. This is more than jt njecture and a body of empiril rearch explor the threads of discrimatn wh LGBT+ spac based on genr, race, age, and abily which alce and form hierarchi of bety wh gay culture.

When Rend Cam penned the "Great Replacement" theory, he may have merely been exprsg opns which whe gay men were g as jtifitns for holdg racist iologi long before he published his book. Ined, numero social media acunts exist that are voted to exposg racism on gay datg apps — for stance, GrdrWhileBlack, which posts screenshots on both Twter and Instagram page.

While the gay and LGBT+ muny may seem like an odd place for the seeds of right-wg extremism to take root and sprout, the culture that has been built post-Stonewall is one that has been creasgly modified and, as such, creasgly exclive. On the ground, this has played out a variety of surprisg ways — om promotn of QAnon by LGBT+ persons, gay men openly g racial slurs on datg apps, and the general adoptn of thorarian posns which margalize those at the bottom of the LGBT+ world.

GAY RIGHTS

Here the Uned Stat, we've had parallel velopments wh gay men promotg ias that naturalize hierarchi of bety—claimg that their bety standards are not socially nstcted but natural, and even a product of human evolutn. Feelg rejected, the men found a warm embrace om nservative iologu — such as when gay fluencer Christian Walker, son of former football player and polician Herschel Walker, took to Twter nouncg Gay Pri ftivals; or, former Brebart employee Milo Yiannopoulos' sensatnalized behavr, some of which was directed at the larger LGBT+ muny.

Moreover, the early epimic phase of a new vis, monkeypox, that is affectg MSM muni, gay men seem to be clgg onto the hyper-dividualism which has proved so harmful to limg the spread of other diseas like HIV/AIDS and COVID-19.