Out Magaze - Gay & Lbian Travel, Fashn, Culture & Polics

Contents:

• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER MUNY
• WHAT IS GAY CULTURE ANYMORE?
• A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
• GAY CULTURE HAS GROWN TOXIC WH UNCHECKED PRIVILEGE. IT'S TIME FOR TO RET

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER MUNY

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The term “homosexualy, ” while sometim nsired anachronistic the current era, is the most applible and easily translatable term to e when askg this qutn across societi and languag and has been ed other cross-natnal studi, cludg the World Valu Survey. Dpe major chang laws and norms surroundg the issue of same-sex marriage and the rights of LGBT people around the world, public opn on the acceptance of homosexualy society remas sharply divid by untry, regn and enomic velopment. The study is a follow-up to a 2013 report that found many of the same patterns as seen today, although there has been an crease acceptance of homosexualy across many of the untri surveyed both years.

WHAT IS GAY CULTURE ANYMORE?

However, while took nearly 15 years for acceptance to rise 13 pots om 2000 to jt before the feral legalizatn of gay marriage June 2015, there was a near equal rise acceptance jt the four years sce legalizatn. This staggerg 56-pot difference exceeds the next largt difference Japan by 20 pots, where 92% and 56% of those ag 18 to 29 and 50 and olr, rpectively, say homosexualy should be accepted by society. In South Korea, for example, those who classify themselv on the iologil left are more than twice as likely to say homosexualy is acceptable than those on the iologil right (a 39-percentage-pot difference).

In Spa, people wh a favorable opn of the Vox party, which recently has begun to oppose some gay rights, are much ls likely to say that homosexualy is acceptable than those who do not support the party.

And Poland, supporters of the erng PiS (Law and Jtice), which has explicly targeted gay rights as anathema to tradnal Polish valu, are 23 percentage pots ls likely to say that homosexualy should be accepted by society than those who do not support the erng party. But even untri like France and Germany where acceptance of homosexualy is high, there are differenc between supporters and non-supporters of key right-wg populist parti such as Natnal Rally France and Alternative for Germany (AfD).

A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

In 25 of the 34 untri surveyed, those who say relign is “somewhat, ” “not too” or “not at all” important their liv are more likely to say that homosexualy should be accepted than those who say relign is “very” important. Though the opns of religly unaffiliated people n vary wily, virtually every untry surveyed wh a sufficient number of unaffiliated rponnts, “non” are more acceptg of homosexualy than the affiliated. lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer muny (LGBTQ muny), also lled LGBTQ+ muny, any untry, regn, cy, or other loly, a group of persons who intify as lbian, gay ( the narrow sense of beg a male who is sexually or romantilly attracted to other mal), bisexual, transgenr, or queer and who feel some gree of empathy and solidary wh each other based on their shared experience of prejudice, discrimatn, and disrpect or their awarens of the historil and ntemporary opprsn of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) persons.

) and there will always be bigoted/judgmental people, so I tend to thk many aspects of gay culture will survive and get passed down person to person and at cultural stutns like the, I jt wrote 'cultural stutns like the DL' Anonymoreply 4Febary 9, 2022 11:10 AM.

GAY CULTURE HAS GROWN TOXIC WH UNCHECKED PRIVILEGE. IT'S TIME FOR TO RET

However, the long n, helped to ph gay / LGBT acceptance let's not kid ourselv, there is still a long road ahead of sce many stat members of the Gay and LGBT Communy n still get fired whout any other reason than their sexual inty. While would be fantastic if were to reach the pot where beg gay was as "normal" as beg straight and people didn't have to bother wh even g out, that suatn also do mean the end of "gay culture" as a unique I wouldn't necsarily wish on anyone, there is somethg to the shared experience and stggle that the vast majory of gay people, even big ci and gay mecs, experienced while growg of what shap culture is a uniquely shared experience which clus var touchston, mon referenc, and stggl. The arts, fashn, lerature and amics which many gays were part of where jt part of the cy world and they were ls discrimatory than blue llar small towns and ral areas jt eher have to blend or are outsts.

A crisis like AIDS helped the late 80s and early 90s the Gay Communy the sense that angry or trated gay artists exprsed themselv a way that ronated wh Gay people ( the closet or out and proud) and even got the mastream's attentn. For our mental and emotnal health, our prospery as gay people I argue that's a price worth payg, even at the loss of that rich apartns that characterized while we Anonymoreply 31Febary 9, 2022 1:54 PM.

I thk gay culture has taken a path that's siar to other cultur, or movements, or styl of that were once "on the edge" or ge and that are nflict wh the mastream eventually bee part of the mastream. Gay culture is gettg as much attentn as possible the ways: Drsg up Halloween stum daily (fashns by Nasty Pig), beg a clown who dish out advice à la JVN, spendg too much money, makg sexual explic art as one of the many ways to signal that you’re gay. Are now mastream enough to be rporatized and better or worse, drag is now a mody (thanks to RPDR) beg the only place gays and lbians meet has been dismissed by younger "queers" - bee they regnize (perhaps rightly so) that bars aren't the healthit place to be 24/7.