Why "Gay" Isn't a Bad Word for Children | HuffPost Contributor

Contents:

• KEV SPACEY: I N’T TELL WHETHER MEN ARE GAY JT BY LOOKG AT THEM
• GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S HEALTH ISSU
• WARNG OM A CYBER SECURY EXPERT: 'YOU'RE GONNA HAVE A BAD DAY'FORMER U.S. CYBERSECURY OFFICIAL CHRIS KREBS SAYS ATTACKS LIKE CHA'S BREACH OF ERNMENT EMAIL ARE EVABLE; THE KEY IS TO LIM THE 'BLAST RADI'. SOURCE: CNNLATT VIOS OM CNN'S CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR (15 VIOS)WARNG OM A CYBER SECURY EXPERT: 'YOU'RE GONNA HAVE A BAD DAY'AUTHOR: HERE'S WHY I'M HOPEFUL ABOUT GUN REFORMACTIVIST: TURKISH ERNMENT ISN'T SUPPORTG WOMENFORMER BRAZILIAN PRINT: BIN MT LL G20 SUMM ON COVID-19FORMER BRAZILIAN PRINT ON WHETHER HE'LL N FOR ELECTNMYANMAR UN REPRENTATIVE SPEAKS AFTER ISSUG PLEA TO THE WORLDMYANMAR ENVOY TO UN: IT SEEMS LIKE THEY HAVE A LICENSE TO KILLUS ADMIRAL SOUNDS ALARM ON CHA'S ARY AMBNS ASIACEO MAK STRIKG STATEMENT ON THE NASDAQ FLOOROMAR: UNFORTUNATE UNELECTED OFFICIAL N STOP $15 MIMUM WAGE'MATILDA' STAR REVEALS WHY SHE LEFT HOLLYWOODAUTHOR SCRIB WHAT HAPPENED WHEN ISIS UNRTIMATED WOMEN FIGHTERSCUBA AIMS TO PRODUCE S OWN COVID-19 VACCECHUCK HAGEL: THERE HAVE TO BE NSEQUENC FOR KHASHOGGI'S ASSASATNJODIE FOSTER ON SEXISM HOLLYWOOD: I BELIEVE WE'RE GETTG BETTERUS NATNAL SECURY ADVISER ON MASSIVE HACK: WE'RE LOOKG BEYOND SANCTNSSEE MOREWARNG OM A CYBER SECURY EXPERT: 'YOU'RE GONNA HAVE A BAD DAY'
• WHAT’S GOOD ABOUT BEG GAY?: PERSPECTIV OM YOUTH
• "THAT'S SO GAY" IS JT SO WRONG
• WHY "GAY" ISN'T A BAD WORD FOR CHILDREN

KEV SPACEY: I N’T TELL WHETHER MEN ARE GAY JT BY LOOKG AT THEM

In other words, where Bud Light has buckled unr prsure as bigotry grows agast the LGBTQ+ muny, Gay Water’s creator Spencer Hodson wants his new boozy brand to be the anthis of that.

“The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them,” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer. Hodson built up a strong social media followg on TikTok and Instagram durg Covid-19 and is g some of the money om that (as well as om iends and fay) to help fund Gay Water. “Gay is an umbrella term and the ia behd the brand is to be as clive as possible, which means we want alli, we want straight people to be part of this muny we’re buildg.”.

Gay Water might not have the ep pockets pared to s petors, like Whe Claw, but “even at small sle, pani of many siz are havg succs makg spir-based seltzers and premixed cktails,” Bryan Roth, an analyst for Feel Goods Company and edor of the alhol beverage newsletter, Sightl+, told CNN.

GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S HEALTH ISSU

“There’s lots of space the spir-based seltzer tegory which Gay Water n play, pecially if the brand n offer a cultural or emotnal nnectn that will feel more excg than the prospect of another peapple-flavored vodka seltzer om natnal or ternatnal rporatns,” Roth said. Of urse, other drks e the word “gay,” too, cludg Gay Beer and So Gay Rosé, Hodson noted, which are also tryg to reach the queer muny and offer them an alternative the straight-domated space. Osr-wng actor Kev Spacey has said he is attracted to mascule men but is not able to tell whether someone is gay jt by lookg at cross-examatn durg his trial on sex abe charg, the Hollywood star nied he was a “sexual bully” and told the jury he did not have a “power wand” to make people want to sleep wh about his sexual preferenc, Mr Spacey said he had prevly had romantic enunters wh men who would not scribe themselv as homosexual.

Many health re and mental health anizatns foced on the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muny also offer substance e treatment or may be able to provi rmatn about lol rourc.

Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love. There are more than 60 untri wh laws that crimalise same-sex sexual acts acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, cludg Sdi Arabia.

WARNG OM A CYBER SECURY EXPERT: 'YOU'RE GONNA HAVE A BAD DAY'FORMER U.S. CYBERSECURY OFFICIAL CHRIS KREBS SAYS ATTACKS LIKE CHA'S BREACH OF ERNMENT EMAIL ARE EVABLE; THE KEY IS TO LIM THE 'BLAST RADI'. SOURCE: CNNLATT VIOS OM CNN'S CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR (15 VIOS)WARNG OM A CYBER SECURY EXPERT: 'YOU'RE GONNA HAVE A BAD DAY'AUTHOR: HERE'S WHY I'M HOPEFUL ABOUT GUN REFORMACTIVIST: TURKISH ERNMENT ISN'T SUPPORTG WOMENFORMER BRAZILIAN PRINT: BIN MT LL G20 SUMM ON COVID-19FORMER BRAZILIAN PRINT ON WHETHER HE'LL N FOR ELECTNMYANMAR UN REPRENTATIVE SPEAKS AFTER ISSUG PLEA TO THE WORLDMYANMAR ENVOY TO UN: IT SEEMS LIKE THEY HAVE A LICENSE TO KILLUS ADMIRAL SOUNDS ALARM ON CHA'S ARY AMBNS ASIACEO MAK STRIKG STATEMENT ON THE NASDAQ FLOOROMAR: UNFORTUNATE UNELECTED OFFICIAL N STOP $15 MIMUM WAGE'MATILDA' STAR REVEALS WHY SHE LEFT HOLLYWOODAUTHOR SCRIB WHAT HAPPENED WHEN ISIS UNRTIMATED WOMEN FIGHTERSCUBA AIMS TO PRODUCE S OWN COVID-19 VACCECHUCK HAGEL: THERE HAVE TO BE NSEQUENC FOR KHASHOGGI'S ASSASATNJODIE FOSTER ON SEXISM HOLLYWOOD: I BELIEVE WE'RE GETTG BETTERUS NATNAL SECURY ADVISER ON MASSIVE HACK: WE'RE LOOKG BEYOND SANCTNSSEE MOREWARNG OM A CYBER SECURY EXPERT: 'YOU'RE GONNA HAVE A BAD DAY'

'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough" said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'" Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3, 000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022. Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos" relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife.

WHAT’S GOOD ABOUT BEG GAY?: PERSPECTIV OM YOUTH

The uple, who live London, said a "really betiful memory" was on the way home when one of their sons shouted out of the black b wdow to Trafalgar Square, "My dads jt got married" and cheered "Yay, gay marriage".

"THAT'S SO GAY" IS JT SO WRONG

There are a few optns for gay men and bisexual men same-sex relatnships who aspire to have children, cludg surrogacy, where sperm is ed to fertilize a donated egg, which is then rried to term by a surrogate mother. Published fal eded form as:PMCID: PMC3326393NIHMSID: NIHMS358675AbstractThis article explor gay and bisexual male adolcents’ posive perceptns of their sexual orientatn inty. Addnal primary them and sub-them were intified wh each tegory that further illtrate how gay/bisexual youth were able to velop posive nceptualizatns of their sexual orientatn spe experiencg negative societal msag about beg gay/bisexual.

Keywords: Bisexual, gay, male, riliency, sexual orientatn, youthAdolcence is a velopmental perd where young people are maturg physilly, emotnally and socially as they transn to adulthood (Erikson, 1980; Hill, 1983). When the fluenc are negative, psychologil distrs among adolcents may rult, pecially for those youth who intify as lbian, gay, or bisexual (Almeida, Johnson, Corliss, Molnar & Azrael, 2009; Hershberger & D’Augelli, 1995; Ueno, 2005).

Th, this article tak a rilience-based approach to examg sexual orientatn inty among gay/bisexual male adolcents by sharg their perceptns regardg the posive aspects of beg gay/bisexual. One study that addrsed this topic prented riliency strategi among lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) young people North Wt England and South Wal wh the ntext of hetero-normative environments (Surfield, Roen & McDermott, 2008). The thors assert that even though the young men were livg a hetero-normative Puerto Rin culture wh pervasive homophobia and cultural stigma, they veloped riliency strategi that helped them to overe potential obstacl.

WHY "GAY" ISN'T A BAD WORD FOR CHILDREN

This was one of the few studi found to prent riliency strategi veloped by gay/bisexual adolcents to bat negative social and cultural ntug rearch is need on the velopmental challeng faced by LGB adolcents, pecially those who are also members of other opprsed groups such as youth of lor, a parallel le of scientific quiry is also need to explore the strengths and rilienci monstrated by LGB youth.

Such limatns do not allow for a more nuanced unrstandg of the current lived experienc of LGB youth’s inty exploratn procs, as has been seen more recent qualative studi of sexual orientatn inty (Ja, Harper, Fernanz, & the ATN, 2009)The purpose of the current study is to provi sights to the posive nceptualizatns that gay/bisexual male adolcents posss regardg their sexual orientatn inty utilizg qualative phenomenologil and nstctivist ameworks. Although we did quire about the full range of perceptns and experienc related to sexual orientatn inty the larger study om which the data were extracted, we chose to foc solely on the posive aspects of posssg a gay/bisexual sexual orientatn inty for the current vtigatn given the lack of empiril data foced specifilly on riliency-related factors among gay/bisexual male adolcents.

We unrstand and acknowledge that gay/bisexual youth are also nonted wh challeng related to their sexual orientatn inty and enurage rears to exame prr lerature prented earlier for an exploratn of such factors.