Okay, time out! FLAG ON THE PLAY! I'm not judgg bee I love gay people, but please chose one. If you're not straight and you're not gay, what are you?
Contents:
- NOT GAY, NOT STRAIGHT: MEET THE YOUNG PEOPLE WHO REFE TO FE THEIR SEXUALY
- GROWG UP HIP-HOP: I’M NOT STRAIGHT AND I’M NOT GAY
- GAY, NOT GAY, STRAIGHT, NOT STRAIGHT
- HOW DO I KNOW I’M NOT REALLY GAY/STRAIGHT?
NOT GAY, NOT STRAIGHT: MEET THE YOUNG PEOPLE WHO REFE TO FE THEIR SEXUALY
Many young men intify as mostly straight — a sexual orientatn that is not que straight but also, they say, ls gay than bisexualy * not straight not gay but what *
We hear a lot about the Big Three Sexuali — straight, bisexual and gay. If you’re a young man, you might assume that eher you’re straight or you’re not, meang you’re likely gay and maybe bisexual.
Yet the evince suggts that more young men intify or scribe themselv as mostly straight than intify as eher bisexual or gay bed.
GROWG UP HIP-HOP: I’M NOT STRAIGHT AND I’M NOT GAY
For19-year-old psychology stunt Greta Warren, the qutn of whether she f herself as gay or straight is a meangls one. * not straight not gay but what *
Yet when the men were forced to choose between straight, bisexual or gay, about three-quarters marked straight bee for them bisexual, even if is unrstood as “bisexual-leang straight, ” is too gay to accurately scribe their inty. Tradnally, our unrstandg has been that if you’re male and have even a slight attractn to the same sex, then you mt be gay.
He knows he’s not gay, but straight wh a dash of gayns. But how much gayns? He’s not transng toward intifyg as bisexual or gay.
GAY, NOT GAY, STRAIGHT, NOT STRAIGHT
He’s not a closeted gay man who fears beg gay yet wants to keep a slight, perhaps secretive, gay si by danglg his potential for guy sex. He may retreat om a full intifitn wh heterosexualy, but rarely do he gravate toward bisexualy, and almost never do he move toward homosexualy of any sort. It is Mostly Straight: Sexual Fluidy Among Men, not Mostly Straight: Sexual Fluidy Among Gay Men.
For19-year-old psychology stunt Greta Warren, the qutn of whether she f herself as gay or straight is a meangls terms, she believ, are jt labels. "It's somethg I found tratg durg the marriage referendum wh everyone mentg on and celebratg the gay and lbian right to marriage, wh ltle to no reference to everyone else on the sexualy spectm, " she might sound unual, but fact Greta's viewpot is one that more and more of her ntemporari share.
HOW DO I KNOW I’M NOT REALLY GAY/STRAIGHT?
A poll published the UK last week by YouGov showed that jt 46pc of 18 to 24-year-olds nsired themselv to be exclively straight, but only 6pc classed themselv as homosexual. Those who rated a zero were emed exclively heterosexual, while the people who rated a six exclively homosexual. "I'm neher gay nor straight, not a ltle of both.