Not gay, not straight: Meet the young people who refe to fe their sexualy |

Contents:

• I'M NOT GAY, STRAIGHT OR BI
• AM I GAY? HOW DO YOU KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY?
• NOT GAY, NOT STRAIGHT: MEET THE YOUNG PEOPLE WHO REFE TO FE THEIR SEXUALY
• AM I GAY?
• ARE YOU GAY OR STRAIGHT?
• HOW DO I KNOW I’M NOT REALLY GAY/STRAIGHT?

I'M NOT GAY, STRAIGHT OR BI

For example, gay men tend to make iends wh women more easily than heterosexual men do, while straight men might be more fortable hangg out wh other men. You may be straight, gay, or somewhere the middle (bisexual or bicur). Some people thk of themselv as straight even if they ocsnally feel attracted to (or have even had relatnships wh) people of the same genr, and some people nsir themselv gay even if they have felt some attractn to/had relatnships wh people of another genr.

If you know your iend is fortable talkg about their sexualy, try askg somethg like, “When did you first figure out that you are straight/gay/bisexual? How n I know if I'm gay? We hear a lot about the Big Three Sexuali — straight, bisexual and gay.

AM I GAY? HOW DO YOU KNOW IF YOU ARE 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. 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.

NOT GAY, NOT STRAIGHT: MEET THE YOUNG PEOPLE WHO REFE TO FE THEIR SEXUALY

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. 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.

AM I GAY?

Then me the gay civil rights movement, domated by gay men and their reports of a powerful blogil drive aimed entirely at men. "I'm gay, I don't have choice! There are tim when nflictg feelgs e a person to ask, "Am I gay?

Ined, some people do not e to the ncln that they are or are not gay until well to adulthood.

But how do you know if you're gay? Is experiencg sexual attractn to the same sex all there is to beg gay?

ARE YOU GAY OR STRAIGHT?

Is there a tt that n tell you whether you're gay?

Am I Gay – Is There a Homosexualy Tt? In the 1950s and 1960s, was believed, some circl, that was possible to tt for homosexualy and such a tt was veloped Canada. However, this tt was based on many flty assumptns and has long sce been shown that no tt n tell you whether you are gay or not.

HOW DO I KNOW I’M NOT REALLY GAY/STRAIGHT?

"Gay tts" that are seen onle are not valid any way and nnot dite whether or not you are gay. Gay ratg sl, like the Heterosexual-Homosexual Ratg Sle (sometim known as the Ksey Sle), do exist, however.

The ratg sl aim to classify people not as "gay" or "straight" but rather dite that most people do not experience exclively gay or straight experienc. Most people, regardls as to their sexual inty, do experience both homosexual and heterosexual feelgs and/or behavrs at different tim their liv. Gay ratg sl allow dividuals to rate themselv rather than assigng a ratg.

How Do You Know if You Are Gay?