Normal gays
What Is A &#;Normal&#; Gay?
Ok, ok, before you start into me this picture does not illustrate my personal viewpoints in any way!
We have all heard people say this before and I cannot tell you how much using &#;normal&#; really irritates me. Its a term that has become thrown around a lot more recently. I have seen it as a way to describe people that aren&#;t LGBTQ, heterosexual marriages, and a cavalcade of other derogatory means of segregating people. Granted the phrase has always been a somewhat divisive term. So why would we want to use that term at all to portray any LGBTQ person/group?
Where are the normal gays?
So let&#;s take a step back and look at why this term is even used. Coming to terms with being LGBTQ is hard, I fully understand why it&#;s complicated. Growing up, we are usually given LGBTQ characters on television that are stereotypes of how straight culture perceives what we were like. We see growing up that men who execute feminine are automatically called homosexual and if they are homosexual they become targets. Since we already know we are diverse we don&#;t want to d
Across cultures, 2% to 10% of people report having lgbtq+ relations. In the U.S., 1% to % of women and men, respectively, identify as male lover. Despite these numbers, many people still consider homosexual action to be an anomalous choice. However, biologists have documented homosexual behavior in more than species, arguing that homosexual behavior is not an unnatural preference, and may in fact play a vital role within populations.
In a issue of Science magazine, geneticist Andrea Ganna at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and colleagues, described the largest survey to date for genes associated with lgbtq+ behavior. By interpreting the DNA of nearly half a million people from the U.S. and the U.K., they concluded that genes account for between 8% and 25% of same-sex habit.
Numerous studies own established that sex is not just male or female. Rather, it is a continuum that emerges from a person’s genetic makeup. Nonetheless, misconceptions persist that same-sex attraction is a preference that warrants condemnation or conversion, and leads to discrimination and persecution.
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As municipalities began to concede civil rights protections demanded by LGBTQ activists, the backlash was predictable: Heterosexual conservatives mobilized to seize back normality. “Once legislation is turned around to support and to flaunt the abnormal,” Christian singer Anita Bryant told reporters on the eve of a successful referendum to retract gay civil rights in Miami, “rather than to protect the normal, then our nation is gone.” John Briggs, a Republican state senator from Orange County, California, agreed. In , Proposition 6, which would have made it illegal for any gay or lesbian person to teach in common schools, told “homosexuals” that California would not “accept you are normal people, because you are not normal people.”
Gay rights leaders convinced Californians to reject the Briggs Initiative, but less than five years later, the HIV/AIDS crisis ripped through gay male communities, reviving long-held prejudices about homosexuals as degenerate, undisciplined, and diseased. If radical LGBTQ activists set queer stigma at the center of transformative organizations like ACT-
Is same-sex attraction normal?
Many people who identify as LGBTQI+ (the acronym stands for Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transsexual Queer / Questioning) can often go through an internal process of finding before revealing this to others.
There are a range of reasons why LGBTQI+ people feel they cannot be their true selves. Usually, it’s because they fear they will be unfairly judged by their family, friends and peers. Common concerns include a fear (real and perceived) that:
- They will be told that being gay is ‘unnatural’ or not normal.
- They will be accused of going through a ‘phase’.
- It goes against family expectations that that they will carry on the family line.
- It is ‘against’ religious or cultural beliefs.
Some queer attracted people may undergo they risk being discriminated against or bullied if they reveal their accurate identity, and that they will be excluded, harassed or even have to fear for their safety.
If you are in this situation, remember that it gets better with hour. You will find your sexual place in the world and find people around you who sustain and accept you fo