15 Reasons Why Your Gay Self is Still Sgle AF

Contents:

• THE SOCIAL EXPERIENC OF SGLE GAY FATHERS ISRAEL: AN INTERSECTNAL PERSPECTIVE
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR PERSONS AND SOCENOMIC STAT
• HOW DO I KNOW IF I AM GAY? SIGNS YOU ARE GAY
• AM I GAY? HOW DO YOU KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY?

THE SOCIAL EXPERIENC OF SGLE GAY FATHERS ISRAEL: AN INTERSECTNAL PERSPECTIVE

Maybe has somethg to do wh the wter season, but as of late, a number of my gay iends have taken to Facebook to lament beg there's absolutely nothg wrong wh beg sgle. There are LGBT meet-up groups and muny service projects where you n meet gay men who have the same terts and valu as you do. A number of gay men spend so much of their childhood hidg who they are, and tryg to be somethg or someone they're not.

Tchounwou, Amic EdorAbstractThrough an tersectnal lens, this study explor the experience of beg a sgle gay father by choice Israeli society, which ntu to view the tradnal heterosexual two-parent fay as the ial. Analysis of 15 -pth, semi-stctured terviews wh sgle gay Israeli fathers suggts that their experienc are characterized by nstant tensn between their self-perceived social acceptance and sense of belongg on the one hand and their enunters wh discrimatn and bias on the other. The fdgs shed light on the ways which the fathers’ plex experienc are shaped by the tersectn between their inty as parents and their two margalized inti: sgle male parents and gay fathers.

As the fathers pe wh their environment, they velop a sense of belongg alongsi a ep sense of otherns, suggtg that the sense of belongg and the sense of otherns are not bary oppos, but rather two social tegori that are ntually nstcted through the tersectn between different inti and their teractn wh macro-level factors, makg sgle gay parenthood a multidimensnal experience. Keywords: sgle parenthood, gay fathers, social experienc, tersectnaly, sense of belongg, perceived discrimatn and social bias1.

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR PERSONS AND SOCENOMIC STAT

The social experienc of sgle gay fathers by choice, fed as gay men who actively choose to parent alone through adoptn or surrogacy and egg donatn [1, 2], have received very ltle rearch attentn.

To date, no prev studi have addrsed the bed effects of the fathers’ margalized social stat as both gay and sgle fathers. Usg tersectnaly as a nceptual amework, we explore the terplay between sgle parenthood and gay parenthood shapg the social experienc of Israeli sgle gay fathers by choice.

HOW DO I KNOW IF I AM GAY? SIGNS YOU ARE GAY

Unrstandg the social realy of the fathers n expand our knowledge of the unique challeng they face and highlight the diversy wh the group of gay fathers. Sgle Gay Fatherhood by ChoiceSgle parents by choice, whether mothers or fathers, fy the culturally domant view unrlyg the tradnal fay mol, whereby parenthood and uplehood are ntgent upon one another [3, 4].

The domance of the heteronormative mol impacts the social posng of sgle gay fathers, placg them simultaneoly wh and outsi the social orr [11, 12, 13, 14].

The teractn between their two margalized social inti as gay fathers and as sgle male parents may enhance their vulnerabily to bias and discrimatn [14, 15].

AM I GAY? HOW DO YOU KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY?

Some of the studi foced on children raised gay sgle-father fai through surrogacy, suggtg that this fay stcture has no trimental effects on children’s adjtment out [16, 17]. A recent study, addrsg both gay and heterosexual sgle-father fai through surrogacy, also reveals that observed nflictual parentg mediat the associatn between parentg qualy sgle fathers’ fai of orig and the attachment secury of their children [18] studi have foced on the motivatns and experienc of sgle gay fathers. One such study, nducted by Carone and his lleagu [19], examed the motivatns of sgle gay Italian men to bee sgle parents via surrogacy.

Another study [14] explored the parentg experienc of sgle gay Israeli fathers as part of a broar rearch project that vtigated the parentg experienc of gay men both sgle and same-sex parent fai who beme fathers through surrogacy.

The study revealed differenc the experienc of sgle and upled gay fathers, suggtg that sgle men perceived the unique challeng they face as promotg their parental petence and rilience. A recent study has vtigated both the motivatns for beg solo parents and the experience of solo mothers and fathers, most of whom were gay men [20]. The current study seeks to expand our knowledge of this populatn by vtigatg the social experienc of sgle gay fathers, focg on the effect on the experienc of their tersectg margalized inti as sole male parents and as gay men.

Sgle Gay Fatherhood IsraelThe prent study was nducted the ntext of Israeli society, where is timated that there are a few dozen sgle fathers by choice, most of whom are gay men [21] a mted relatnship. Wh this ntext, sgle gay fatherhood fli the face of domant social beliefs, cludg the view of parenthood and uplehood as two related enti, the hegemonic stat of the heteronormative fay, and tradnal genr rol [21, 27, 37]. Th, sgle gay fathers occupy a disadvantaged social posn rultg om the tersectn of their sexual orientatn, relatnship stat, and genr.

Most of the studi that do exist have examed Israeli gay fathers the ntext of uplehood, monstratg the domant social view that associat parenthood wh uplehood [27, 28, 38, 39].

One exceptn is Tsfati and Ben-Ari’s study [14], which foced on the parentg experience of sgle gay fathers, but did not exame their social experienc. To unrstand the social experienc of sgle gay Israeli fathers, we mt take to acunt the tersectn between their multiple inti on the micro level (i.