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Contents:
- I’M 43 – BUT I’M MA TO FEEL LIKE A DOSR BY YOUNGER GAY MEN
- JT ONE GAY ACQUATANCE N CHANGE HEARTS AND MDS ON LGBTQ RIGHTS, STUDY FDS
- GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME
- AS MORE AMERINS HAVE NTACTS WH GAYS AND LBIANS, SOCIAL ACCEPTANCE RIS
- KNOWG JT ONE GAY PERSON SHIFTS ATTUS
I’M 43 – BUT I’M MA TO FEEL LIKE A DOSR BY YOUNGER GAY MEN
Is a Thomism iendly to the gay liftyle the wave of the future? Is the next phase a scholarly, sophistited kd of theology? Such is the imprsn given by the medieval scholar Adriano Oliva his new book Amours, published French and Italian. * the gay of acquaintance *
Among other thgs, the Italian Domin lls for a revolutn the Church’s pastoral practice among the divorced and civilly remarried as well as sexually active homosexual persons.
JT ONE GAY ACQUATANCE N CHANGE HEARTS AND MDS ON LGBTQ RIGHTS, STUDY FDS
‘In gay years, you’re rather past your sell-by date, aren’t you?’ the person ont of me said, raisg an eyebrow. * the gay of acquaintance *
So for some people, nnibalism, btialy, or homosexual terurse n bee pleasurable as quasi-natural, bee past sful acts distort their nature. Oliva nclus that we n distguish between gay sex sought simply for physil pleasure, and the tenr gay sex that om the homosexual person’s most timate self. Ined, homosexual persons are lled to live out the clatn which is natural for them, namely, fily to another person of the same sex, and enjoyg sexual acts not primarily for pleasure but as exprsns of love.
Now if, as Oliva propos, Thomas means that the homosexual clatn om the most timate part of the person’s soul, then the same readg mt apply to Aquas’s mentn of nnibalism and btialy. A new study nfirms what many have already known anecdotally: Havg at least one gay or lbian acquatance not only mak straight people more likely to support gay rights, but also mak them more acceptg of gay people phenomenon is known as "ntact theory, " acrdg to Daniel DellaPosta, the study's thor and an assistant soclogy profsor at Pennsylvania State Universy. DellaPosta, who is gay, said he has both a "personal and amic tert" the topic and was spired to rearch after fdg data that showed acceptance of homosexualy grew five-fold between 1973 and 2016.
DellaPosta said his study, tled “Gay Acquatanchip and Attus Toward Homosexualy: A Conservative Tt, " is the first to provi an empiril examatn of how straight people are affected by tangential relatnships wh gay and lbian people. In orr to do this, he pared data om the 2006, 2008 and 2010 General Social Survey (GSS), which sce 1972 has been gatherg thoands of Amerins' opns on a range of social analysis, which has sce been published the peer-reviewed journal Soci, found that “rponnts who were acquated wh at least one gay or lbian person 2006 exhibed greater shifts toward creased acceptance of homosexualy and gay marriage 2008 and 2010.
GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME
The Nazi regime rried out a mpaign agast male homosexualy and persecuted gay men between 1933 and 1945. * the gay of acquaintance *
”In 2006, about 45 percent of people wh a gay or lbian acquatance supported same-sex marriage, but by 2010 the figure had creased to 61 percent. He said his analysis showed that straight people wh no gay iends who enunter a gay or lbian dividual superficially, like a grocery store or on the subway, uld have their prejudic "rerced. "DellaPosta also found that while “olr, polilly nservative” straight people were the on most likely to be agast same-sex marriage 2006, they were also the on most likely to change their views on homosexualy and gay rights upon gag a gay or lbian acquatance subsequent Owen, a spokperson for PFLAG, the first and largt anizatn for LGBTQ people, their fay and alli, said “the data bears out what we’ve known anecdotally.
” This philosophy dat back to at least the begng of the gay rights movement of the '60s and '70s and one of s pneerg lears, Harvey Milk, whom DellaPosta said spired his, who was assassated San Francis 40 years ago, famoly enuraged gay people to e out a letter that was only ma public after his ath.
“I would like to see every gay doctor e out, every gay lawyer, every gay archect e out, stand up and let that world know, " Milk wrote.
AS MORE AMERINS HAVE NTACTS WH GAYS AND LBIANS, SOCIAL ACCEPTANCE RIS
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It is unclear how many of the men publicly or privately intified as gay or were part of gay muni and works that had been tablished Germany before the Nazi rise to power. However, the Nazi mpaign agast homosexualy and the regime’s zealo enforcement of Paragraph 175 ma life Nazi Germany dangero for gay men.
KNOWG JT ONE GAY PERSON SHIFTS ATTUS
The latter term dated to 1869, when a pamphlet advotg for crimalizatn of sexual relatns between men ed the term “Homosexualät” (“homosexualy”). In ntrast, the work of gay men that veloped around thor Adolf Brand and his anizatn Gemeschaft r Eigenen (The Communy of Kdred Spirs) took a different approach.
Gay newspapers and journals, such as Die Frndschaft (Friendship) and Der Eigene (translated varly, but this ntext implyg “his own man”), ntributed to the growth of gay works. In a further latn, the Nazis ed new laws and police practic to arrt and ta whout trial a limed number of gay men begng late 1933 and early 1934. Fally, 1936 SS lear and Chief of the German Police Herich Himmler tablished the Reich Central Office for the Combatg of Homosexualy and Abortn (Reichszentrale zur Bekämpfung r Homosexualät und r Abtreibung).
The notorly homophobic Himmler saw both homosexualy and abortn as threats to the German birth rate and th to the fate of the German people.