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Contents:
- TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE 'THE CROWD ROOM' DEFEND BY FANS
- ARE MORY MEN MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY? WHY?
- CNCHG THE NUMBERS ON BLACKS' VIEWS ON GAYS
- GAY HISTORY IS BLACK HISTORY: THE 10 INS PROVE IT
- BLACKS, GAYS AND THE CHURCH: A COMPLEX RELATNSHIP
TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE 'THE CROWD ROOM' DEFEND BY FANS
* black people are gay *
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” The edian Bill Maher said on his show that by 2054, if we follow what he se as the current trajectory, “we will all be gay, ” addg that the rise the number of younger people intifyg as transgenr seemed spic. Bee of the fluence of Schorr put siarly Natnal Review: “To suggt that social suggtibily uld be playg a role the skyrocketg numbers of young girls’ exprsg their sire to bee mal, for example, is not of urse to say that gay and transgenr people would not exist whout the topics’ beg discsed the public square. ”This fear is based on an unrstandg of genr and sexualy as alarmgly agile, easily undone by a gay teacher or a trans TikTok fluencer.
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ARE MORY MEN MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY? WHY?
When the veteran NBA player Jason Colls me out, an old narrative about black antigay sentiment was rurrected. But is te? * black people are gay *
So rults of new rearch on orientatn self-intifitn — “the largt sgle study of the distributn of the lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) populatn the U. On rerd, ” which Gallup asked more than 120, 000 Amerins if they personally intified as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr — reviewed the New York Tim by opn lumnist Charl Blow, are bafflg.
CNCHG THE NUMBERS ON BLACKS' VIEWS ON GAYS
Gay history is Black history. * black people are gay *
It shows that the gay and lbian muny is more diverse than many believe, and shows that many young men of lor feel empowered to intify as they feel most fortable.
Blow asks, "Could be that some men of lor have ls at stake fancially that uld be jeopardized by intifyg as gay than their whe unterparts?
When Jason Colls, a journeyman NBA center, announced that he was gay, many mentators who appld his disclosure still nodd to the ia of heightened opposn to gay rights among black people.
GAY HISTORY IS BLACK HISTORY: THE 10 INS PROVE IT
Disver all facts and statistics on Homosexualy (gays and lbians) the U.S. on ! * black people are gay *
"The hyper-mascule ials forced upon young black boys be wh the homophobia of the black church to create a perfect storm of shame and secrecy, " Rob Smh wrote at Salon, as he tailed his trmatic attempt to e out to his mother.
"What mak the NBA unique is that almost 80 percent of the players are black, and black men are notor homophob when to one of their own. " "Homophobia the black muny — ed, even among the lears of the civil rights movement of the 1960s — was some of the most vilent and stubborn of all, and there are still some who rent the equatn of the gay rights movement wh their stggle, " wrote Charl P. " med Greg Lewis, a polil scientist at Geia State Universy who has published several studi on the views of blacks and wh on homosexualy.
BLACKS, GAYS AND THE CHURCH: A COMPLEX RELATNSHIP
And as he cnched some numbers, he found that black opn on gays — to the extent that there's a "black opn" on anythg — isn't really easy to fe. You've got to hold a bunch of disparate ias your head at once; Lewis found that black folks are ls likely than whe people to believe that homosexualy is "not wrong at all" (25 percent to 40 percent).
The "black church, " long held up as the vector for black opposn to homosexualy, clus many outspoken clergy members who have been stmental to same-sex marriage iativ.
And spe the ntentn that the NBA is a haven of notorly antigay black men, the profsnal hoops universe has been nearly uniformly supportive of Colls' cisn to e out. ) Last year, NPR's Corey Da spoke to All Thgs Consired's Audie Cornish jt after Print Obama's announcement to put the shiftg black support on gay marriage to ntext.