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Contents:
- WHAT DO IT MEAN TO BE A GAY MAN?
- WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?
- I SOMETIM FEEL: WHAT'S THE POT OF BEG GAY IF I'M NOT BETIFUL
- WHAT DO IT MEAN TO BE GAY? DEFN AND MEANG OF GAY
- WHAT’S GOOD ABOUT BEG GAY?: PERSPECTIV OM YOUTH
WHAT DO IT MEAN TO BE A GAY MAN?
Why are people gay? Are they gay by choice or is beg gay geic? Are they born gay? Learn about the and reasons for beg gay. * the point of being gay *
As every gay man knows who has been sulted or asslted for his actual or perceived sexual orientatn, there are steep penalti for vlatg the Boy Co as there are for anyone who is “different” om the prumed (typilly whe, heterosexual, middle-class) standard. How do a gay kid survive the trma he suffers for beg different a culture that still nmns his difference as somethg bad or “ls-than” and wants to mold him to the same shape tri to mold every boy?
Robert Pollack says the most important thg a fay n do to support their gay son is to keep lovg him, “to nvey to him, as soon as he shar his feelgs, that he is still loved through and through, that his sexual orientatn will not any way dimish how much he is admired and rpected. Fortunately there is a long history of gay men who bucked the accepted fns of masculy and created liv that exprsed their unrstandg of themselv and how they choose to exprs their inty as men who don’t necsarily f tradnal molds. The late Harry Hay often lled "the father of the morn gay movement, " found the Mattache Society Los Angel the fall of 1950 for gay men to gather and ponr the qutns Hay had long been askg: Who are gay people?
WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?
AN NBA veteran and one-time 20-pot-per-game srer is now officially a ee Gay is available for any team to sign after beg waived by t * the point of being gay *
Hay didn’t tend the Mattach to be a polil anizatn per se, but a group that would e together to enhance their self-unrstandg and explore the ntributns gay people had ma to the human race through the ag.
I SOMETIM FEEL: WHAT'S THE POT OF BEG GAY IF I'M NOT BETIFUL
* the point of being gay *
In a 1987 say tled “A Separate People Whose Time Has Come, ” Hay scribed homosexuals as “spir people, ” who, throughout the ag, had served society their rol as “msengers and tercers, shamans of both genrs, prits and prits, imagemakers and prophets, mim and rhapsos, poets and playwrights, healers and nurturers, teachers and preachers, tkers and tkerers, searchers and rearchers.
He said gay men look at the world differently, are uniquely nonaggrsive, nonpetive, oriented toward sharg and cled to velop what Hay lled “subject-subject” love relatnships of equals.
It very much appears that same-sex sexual attractn is not a choice but actg on is; so if you fe gay as the mere prence of same-sex attractn, then om everythg we unrstand, beg gay is not a choice.
WHAT DO IT MEAN TO BE GAY? DEFN AND MEANG OF GAY
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Straight people you meet have gay iends and jt might troduce you, which is a lot ls strsful than standg around a club wonrg why no one wants Anonymoreply 29Augt 26, 2016 11:05 AM. Do thgs you enjoy and that make you feel good about yourself - the rt will fall whole bety standard/fancial stat thg our gay male culture (I'm lookg at you, LOGO and your new "Prce Charmg" show) is fuckg Anonymoreply 34Augt 26, 2016 11:30 AM. Existential angst om people wh limed mental acuy is a sad thg to 's even sadr is someone whose entire inty revolv around beg gay or, even worse, havg even sadr yet, the lack of self-awarens to regnize that one participat the exact behavr one ris as the source of his Anonymoreply 47Augt 26, 2016 4:26 PM.
WHAT’S GOOD ABOUT BEG GAY?: PERSPECTIV OM YOUTH
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