Why So Few Lbians and Gays Mastream Poly Communy? | Psychology Today

Contents:

• WHY SO FEW LBIANS AND GAYS MASTREAM POLY COMMUNY?
• ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, & INTERSEX LIFE
• GENEVA COLLEGE ALLEGEDLY FIR GAY SOCCER ACH AFTER INSTAGRAM POSTS ABOUT CLIVENS

WHY SO FEW LBIANS AND GAYS MASTREAM POLY COMMUNY?

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This blog explor five reasons why lbians and gay men might not appear the mastream US poly scene as much as their bisexual and heterosexual unterparts. Homophobia. Although my rearch dit that poly muni tend to have lower levels of homophobia than nventnal society, do not mean that they are whout homophobia.

Gay men ually do not enjoy alg wh homophobia their social environments, so is no surprise that they are rare mastream poly circl. The flip si of homophobia is objectifyg sex among women for male nsumptn. Gay men vented Consensual Non-Monogamy (CNM).

ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER

” OK, so maybe they didn’t actually vent , but rearch dit that CNM is a regular feature of gay male society the US.

[ii] Wh muny norms already place and a social pool of potential dat already open to CNM, gay men don’t have to approach a different muny to fd partners or seek advice. Remag gay settgs also means they don’t have to al wh homophobia (or at least not as much).

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, & INTERSEX LIFE

Like gays and lbians, queers same-sex relatnships already have accs to a circle where CNM is part of the social fabric, so they don’t need to seek out the poly muny. Although there are plenty of lbian and gay poly folks, the agile state of sex and genr mory rights the US mak unfortable polilly to align wh any form of nsensual non-monogamy bee remds nventnal folks of polygamy -- the end of the slippery slope. Some the mastream gay and lbian power stctur are actively hostile to polyamory/CNM as posg a potential threat to recent gas civil rights.

GENEVA COLLEGE ALLEGEDLY FIR GAY SOCCER ACH AFTER INSTAGRAM POSTS ABOUT CLIVENS

Even though they may prciple be open or even supportive of poly, to secure their civil rights as a practil matter the lbian and gay power brokers mt rema strategilly hostile to any attempts to brg up poly U. Even if they do not appear the mastream polyamoro muny, there are fely lbians and gay men havg nsensually non-monogamo relatnships. When I asked Alexandra Tyler, an LCSW who specializ servg LGBT+, poly, and kky folks Atlanta, about the lbian and gay poly scen, she rpond:.

I beme aware of CNM the gay muni back the early 1980's and I'm sure was popular long before my personal awarens of . Now that poly is beg more mastream and more popular among heterosexual people, I see the sexism and homophobia that separat the muni begng to fa. The spectre of promiscuy: Gay male and bisexual non-monogami and polyamori.

The ph for legal regnn of polyamory has sometim been acced of -optg the language of gay liberatn. Gay. The story of Acác do Nascimento, a man who was subjected to several treatments lookg for a supposed cure for his homosexualy.