Gayle Kg and Oprah Wey did an terview a while back and addrsed the longstandg gay mors about them.
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GAYLE KG ON ROMANCE RUMORS WH OPRAH: ‘IF WE WERE GAY, WE WOULD TELL YOU’
* if we were gay error *
The se posts photographs of gay-intified adults as children.
Submters argue that the photographs are proof that they were born gay.
Pesg the photographs tells an tertg story: beg gay — that is, beg sexually sexually or romantilly attracted to members of the same sex — is nflated wh beg genr non-nformist — adoptg the mannerisms and terts of the other sex. This is the argument ma the vast majory of posts: ’s obv I was gay bee I broke l of masculy/femy by dog thgs like sniffg flowers, posg jntily, likg Snow Whe, and playg wh Barbie. It is a specifilly Amerin belief that gay men act feme and lbians act mascule.
IF WE WERE GAY
But, fact, gay men and lbians have a wi range of genr performanc, as do straight and bisexual people. Meanwhile, most gay men and lbians uld probably fd pictur of themselv nformg. Neverthels, the se perpetuat this nflatn an effort to support the notn that beg gay is blogil.
In ntrast to this assertn, however, excellent rearch has shown that there is no trans-cultural, trans-historil gay inty and terpretatns of same-sex sexual behavr vary wildly (see, for example, Herdt’s Same Sex, Different Cultur, DeE’s Capalism and Gay Inty, and Katz’s The Inventn of Heterosexualy).