Contents:
- 3 WAYS WHE CIS GAY MEN CAN DO BETTER FOR THE LGBTQIA+ MOVEMENT
- HOW THE GAY COMMUNY PERPETUAT RACISM AND HOMONORMATIVY: A SERI EXAMG ISSU WH CIS GAY MEN
- HIGH SCHOOL MIL ORIGAL STAR TO HAVE GAY ROMANCE TV SP-OFF
- TRANS PEOPLE AND CISGENR GAY MEN THE UK ARE MOST LIKELY TO EXPERIENCE VLENCE
3 WAYS WHE CIS GAY MEN CAN DO BETTER FOR THE LGBTQIA+ MOVEMENT
This is long but thoughtful piece by Ben Appel that hs home on several pots about gay people and what’s happeng now. For years, I feared homophobic right-wg evangelils. But the days, I’m equally wary of the progrsive activists who ph a distctly homophobic agenda that ni the blogil realy of sex—and who claim that what we are attracted to isn’t male or female bodi per se, but rather male or female genr inti.
This outlook effectively imag away the existence of homosexualy, which, the real world, is of urse rooted physil attractn based on blogil ias also serve to stct genr-nonnformg children (as I once was) that their uniquens dit they may have been born si the “wrong body, ” and so will likely have to m to a lifetime of medilizatn if they want to be happy. But ’s also an implic slur, often directed at gay men wh tradnally mascule—th, “assiatnist, ” toxic, and regrsive—tras.
… Sce that time, I’ve noticed that enmy toward “cis” gay men (which often seems a lot like straight up homophobia) has begun to permeate LGBT publitns and social media, whout any sort of nsequenc. …This attu … offers one explanatn for the sharp uptick the number of gay men and women who now intify unr the umbrella of “trans/nonbary.
HOW THE GAY COMMUNY PERPETUAT RACISM AND HOMONORMATIVY: A SERI EXAMG ISSU WH CIS GAY MEN
” As I’ve told iends over the last few years, were I to dye my hair purple, start patg my nails and wearg eyeler, and change my pronouns, I would experience ls anti-gay hostily the “queer” muny, sce I would have visibly rejected “cis-heteronormativy.
HIGH SCHOOL MIL ORIGAL STAR TO HAVE GAY ROMANCE TV SP-OFF
You hear this a lot the days om “cis gay men. In the Quillette ments, “Beowulf_Obsidian” shared: Ls than a year after homosexual marriage was legalized, gay iends of me openly lamented how they fell om their super hero stat to beg part of the nmned ‘normative’ crowd. They weren’t celebrated for beg gay, they were blasted for not wantg to have sex or date heterobodied trans.
The most-followed Black gay porn star on Twter is up to number two om the number three slot last year. Muas psoas associam cisgêneros heterossexualida e transgêneros homossexualida. Um divíduo transgênero po ser heterossexual, assim o um cisgênero po ser homossexual, e vice-versa.
Let’s get this out of the way right now: I am a whe cisgenr gay woman, and I love gay men.
TRANS PEOPLE AND CISGENR GAY MEN THE UK ARE MOST LIKELY TO EXPERIENCE VLENCE
I don’t claim to know what ’s like to be a gay man, nor do I tend to speak for all queer people.
My experience as a gay woman was largely shaped by gay men, and I want to pay forward.