What do Nietzsche mean this quote om The Gay Science? - Philosophy Stack Exchange

Contents:

• THE GAY SCIENCE
• WHAT SCIENCE KNOWS ABOUT WHY PEOPLE ARE GAY
• WHAT IS SCIENCE THE 'GAY SCIENCE'?
• THE 'GAY GENE' IS A MYTH BUT BEG GAY IS 'NATURAL,' SAY SCIENTISTS
• 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
• NIETZSCHE’S THE GAY SCIENCE / AN ANALYSIS OF NIETZSCHE’S THE GAY SCIENCE / DIE öHLICHE WISSENSCHAFT / THE GAY SCIENCE BY FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE / WHAT DO NIETZSCHE MEAN BY “GOD IS AD”? / WHAT DO THIS MEAN?: “WHAT DO NOT KILL ME MAK ME STRONGER” / NIETZSCHE AND SCHOPENHER / WAS NIETZSCHE A PROTO-NAZI? / WAS NIETZSCHE A FASCIST? / WAS NIETZSCHE A MISOGYNIST? / WAS NIETZSCHE A FEMIST? / WAS NIETZSCHE A SEXIST? / WHAT IS THE “ETERNAL RECURRENCE OF THE SAME”? / WHAT IS THE “WILL-TO-POWER”? / NIETZSCHE AND “THE WILL TO POWER” / NIETZSCHE AND “THE ETERNAL RECURRENCE OF THE SAME” / NIETZSCHE AND BUDDHISM / NIETZSCHE AND HDUISM
• WHAT DO NIETZSCHE MEAN THIS QUOTE OM THE GAY SCIENCE?
• THE SCIENCE OF GAY

THE GAY SCIENCE

As our age note on the term stat, “up until 1973, homosexualy was listed The Diagnostic and Statistil Manual of Mental Disorrs (DSM), psychiatry’s standard reference on the classifitn of mental illns.

And many feel that this word plac undue emphasis on sexual activy, or that sounds overly clil.” In fact, the term homosexual was liberately rejected by early gay rights activists bee, acrdg to The New York Tim, “they did not want to be intified as exclively sexual begs.”.

WHAT SCIENCE KNOWS ABOUT WHY PEOPLE ARE GAY

Gay, on the other hand, n be ed to scribe a person of any genr who experienc same-sex attractn, although is most often ed to scribe a man who is attracted to men. On June 28, 1969, the New York Cy police raid the Stonewall Inn, a bar equented by gay and genr-nonnformg people (at a time when terms like LGBTQ didn’t yet exist). Partially rponse to Stonewall, 1970, queer activists New York Cy anized a march to Central Park wh the theme “Gay Pri.” A more prehensive history of the Stonewall Rt or the Stonewall Uprisg n be found our Pri Month explaer.

WHAT IS SCIENCE THE 'GAY SCIENCE'?

Queer lerally means “strange or odd om a nventnal viewpot,” and by at least by the late 1800s, queer was ployed as a rogatory term for an effemate or gay man. Recently, scientists announced that they found some gen that might be associated wh sexual orientatn and a blogil explanatn for the reason gay men tend to have olr the field of sexual orientatn rearch is far broar and more plited than two studi—and Lisa Diamond, a psychologist and sexual orientatn rearcher at the Universy of Utah, knows that better than most.

I n't guarantee you that at age 18, if you child hasn't exprsed same-sex attractns that they won't the future—and ankly ma'am, I n't guarantee you that you are not gog to end up gay eher.

THE 'GAY GENE' IS A MYTH BUT BEG GAY IS 'NATURAL,' SAY SCIENTISTS

32 pag • 1 hour readFriedrich NietzscheNonfictn | Book | Adult | Published 1882A morn alternative to SparkNot and CliffsNot, SuperSummary offers high-qualy Study Guis that feature tailed chapter summari and analysis of major them, characters, quot, and say topics.Summary and Study GuiOverviewThe Gay Science is a book of poems and llectn of 383 aphorisms five sectns that terrogat the origs of the history of knowledge. He wr:When the maxim, ‘The race is all, the dividual is nothg,’ […] has rporated self to humany […] when accs stands open to everyone at all tim to this ultimate emancipatn and rponsibily […] [p]erhaps then lghter will have rned wh wisdom, perhaps then there will be only ‘gay science.’ Meanwhile […] is still the perd of tragedy, the perd of morals and religns (18). The news this week that the largt study of s kd failed to nfirm the existence of a "gay gene" is not so much a disappotment for those lookg to unrstand the LGBTQ muny, as is an acknowledgement that science do not need to tell what should be plaly obv: gays, lbians, bisexuals and pansexuals are who they are.

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

But here's the quote that will light opponents of LGBTQ rights, some of whom sist they n "nvert" gay people to choose to be straight by prayg the gay away:.

NIETZSCHE’S THE GAY SCIENCE / AN ANALYSIS OF NIETZSCHE’S THE GAY SCIENCE / DIE öHLICHE WISSENSCHAFT / THE GAY SCIENCE BY FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE / WHAT DO NIETZSCHE MEAN BY “GOD IS AD”? / WHAT DO THIS MEAN?: “WHAT DO NOT KILL ME MAK ME STRONGER” / NIETZSCHE AND SCHOPENHER / WAS NIETZSCHE A PROTO-NAZI? / WAS NIETZSCHE A FASCIST? / WAS NIETZSCHE A MISOGYNIST? / WAS NIETZSCHE A FEMIST? / WAS NIETZSCHE A SEXIST? / WHAT IS THE “ETERNAL RECURRENCE OF THE SAME”? / WHAT IS THE “WILL-TO-POWER”? / NIETZSCHE AND “THE WILL TO POWER” / NIETZSCHE AND “THE ETERNAL RECURRENCE OF THE SAME” / NIETZSCHE AND BUDDHISM / NIETZSCHE AND HDUISM

"There is no ‘gay gene’ that term whether someone has same-sex partners, ” said Ganna, who is also a geicist at the Broad Instute of MIT and Harvard as well as the Universy of Helski. While the variatns the gen are not enough to raise a rabow flag and label anyone as unqutnably gay, the rearchers say the blogil variants may at the very least partly fluence sexual behavr. This new rearch, he said “provis even more evince that beg gay or lbian is a natural part of human life, a ncln that has been drawn by rearchers and scientists time and aga.

This new rearch also renfirms the long tablished unrstandg that there is no nclive gree to which nature or nurture fluence how a gay or lbian person behav.

WHAT DO NIETZSCHE MEAN THIS QUOTE OM THE GAY SCIENCE?

Geics nnot tell "the whole story, " as Eric Vila, director of the Center for Geic Medice Rearch at Children’s Natnal Health System, told the Post, about what "mak" somebody gay. Sce 1975, APA has lled on psychologists to take the lead removg the stigma of mental illns that has long been associated wh lbian, gay, and bisexual orientatns.

THE SCIENCE OF GAY

The prejudice and discrimatn that people who intify as lbian, gay, or bisexual regularly experience have been shown to have negative psychologil effects. This page provis accurate rmatn for those who want to better unrstand sexual orientatn and the impact of prejudice and discrimatn on those who intify as lbian, gay, or bisexual. In the Uned Stat the most equent labels are lbians (women attracted to women), gay men (men attracted to men), and bisexual people (men or women attracted to both sex).

Prejudice and discrimatn make difficult for many people to e to terms wh their sexual orientatn inti, so claimg a lbian, gay, or bisexual inty may be a slow procs.