The massacre at an Orlando gay club is a savage remr that lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people still face harsh prejudice Ameri and lack full equal protectns unr the law.
Contents:
- SCIENTISTS MAY HAVE FALLY UNLOCKED PUZZLE OF WHY PEOPLE ARE GAY
- WHAT IF EVERYONE WERE GAY?
- HOW TO KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY
- PEACHY KEENAN: EVERYONE IS GAY, N YOU BLAME THEM?
- AM I GAY?
SCIENTISTS MAY HAVE FALLY UNLOCKED PUZZLE OF WHY PEOPLE ARE GAY
* what if everyone was gay *
When I me out as gay my sophomore year of llege, I absolutely loved gog to Tigerheat – a kschy 18-and-over gay club Los Angel. That’s where I first learned how to openly and unabashedly celebrate beg gay.
WHAT IF EVERYONE WERE GAY?
Theory: Lbians get om their fathers, gay men om their mothers. * what if everyone was gay *
After isolatg myself om other gay people for years, I was sudnly surround by them.
Those nights had special meang to me as someone explorg my newfound inty as an openly gay man.
HOW TO KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY
Such memori make me pecially disgted that a gay club has bee the se of the U. An assailant who apparently hated gay people shot over 100 people at the Orlando gay club Pulse.
PEACHY KEENAN: EVERYONE IS GAY, N YOU BLAME THEM?
As this massacre remds , vlent hatred toward lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) people still remas the Uned Stat. For stance, a large 2013 natnal survey of middle school and high school stunts, 65 percent of LGBT stunts reported hearg homophobic remarks like “fag” or “dyke” equently or often, and 30 percent missed at least one day of school the prev month bee they felt unsafe or unfortable. Though clg over time, homophobic attus are still wh the U.
For stance, acrdg to Gallup poll data, 37 percent of Amerins still view “gay or lbian relatns” as morally wrong, pared to 53 percent of Amerins 2001. And spe this most cle explicly stated homophobia, seeg two men or two women kiss still disgts many people – even well-tentned people – at an implic, tomatic level. The harsh reali remd me how much of a protected bubble I live as a young whe cisgenr male graduate stunt livg Chigo’s largt gay neighborhood.
AM I GAY?
For stance, as photographer and wrer Samra Habib scribed, many queer Mlims not only fear homophobic attacks but also “have to take extra re walkg down the street at night and enterg [their] mosqu for fear of Islamophobic attacks.