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Contents:

• GAY STEREOTYP: ARE THEY TE?
• WT HOLLYWOOD GAY MEN ARE SLUTTIT IN NATN
• THE PLACE OF PROMISCUY GAY CULTURE
• UNTTHS AND FACTS ABOUT PEOPLE WHO ARE GAY, LBIAN, OR BISEXUAL
• WHEN GAY MEN (MIS)MARRY STRAIGHT WOMEN: BONNIE KAYE'S STORY
• GAY CULTURE HAS GROWN TOXIC WH UNCHECKED PRIVILEGE. IT'S TIME FOR TO RET
• THE EFFECT OF THE PROMISCUY STEREOTYPE ON OPPOSN TO GAY RIGHTS
• PROMISCUO GAY PEOPLE
• ALL GAYS ARE PROMISCUO
• KEV SPACEY: I N’T TELL WHETHER MEN ARE GAY JT BY LOOKG AT THEM
• THE REAL LIV OF GAY MEN
• IN DENIAL OVER GAY-DRIVEN MONKEYPOX
• THE FACT NO ONE LIK TO ADM: MANY GAY MEN ULD JT HAVE EASILY BEEN STRAIGHT
• THE BIG GAY LIE
• WHY ARE THERE GAY MEN?
• KEV SPACEY DEFENDS COMG OUT AS GAY AFTER BEG ACCED OF SEXUAL MISNDUCT: ‘I WAS UNR A LOT OF PRSURE’
• AM I GAY AND PROMISCUO? (MEN 18 AND OLR ONLY!)

GAY STEREOTYP: ARE THEY TE?

Although neher of our fantasi was fulfilled by the enunter, we end up havg an tertg nversatn about homosexualy, a topic the fellow was studyg graduate school, wh an obv personal vtment, and the topic of a paper I’d wrten my unrgraduate psychology class. Homosexual men are famoly promiscuo, a fact that beme well-known wh the onset of AIDS, when studi of gay men who were HIV-posive revealed average numbers of partners the hundreds (and even though gay men who were HIV negative had much lower numbers, the average for them was still dramatilly higher than the average numbers for heterosexual men).

Homosexual men are cled toward promiscuy, attracted to youth and good looks, and unrg about stat—hence many of the sexual swch homosexual men are set the same posn as they are heterosexual men—if gay guys were straight, their preferenc would lead them to pick fertile femal. 1 percent of homosexual mal Shoreland — known as Chigo’s “gay center” — have at least one sexually transmted disease, rearchers three-year study on the sexual habs of Chigo’s cizens will appear the upg book, “The Sexual Organizatn of The Cy” (Universy of Chigo Prs), due out this rearchers terviewed 2, 114 people om throughout the cy and s suburbs, askg them tailed qutns about their sexual behavr and the rearch alt wh the behavr of all people — heterosexuals clud — s fdgs on homosexual men are sure to raise eyebrows.

WT HOLLYWOOD GAY MEN ARE SLUTTIT IN NATN

They also say that such unhealthy behavr should play a larger role the natnal bate over same-sex “marriage, ” bee s legalizatn would radilly unrme the tradnal belief New York Tim ran a story Augt showg that homosexuals Canada, where same-sex “marriage” is legal two provc, are not shg to tie the knot. The addn of the word “tradnal” may have had an the latt poll, 41 percent of Amerins said they were opposed to the legalizatn of civil unns while 34 percent supported them and 25 percent had no the poll ntued to show a backlash agast recent urt lgs favorable to homosexualy. " On the other are those like Thomas and Michael Warner, an English profsor at Rutgers Universy and a founr of Sex Panic, who argue that promiscuo sex is the sence of gay liberatn, and that any attempt to fight AIDS by changg the culture is doomed.

Fact: Children raised by parents who are Gay, Lbian, or Bisexual and children raised by parents who are Straight show no differenc between the two groups of children their telligence, psychologil adjtment, populary wh iends, velopment of sex role inty, or velopment of sexual orientatn.

But even though the nversatns that muted this lumn for six weeks are nowhere close to beg over, I do feel like some thgs that me up durg that time of ntemplatn are worth sayg now — particularly to my fellow whe gay cis out more stori on LGBTQ+ ins and activistsHowever, the ghost of Larry Kramer very much remaed my own head as I ma my way through a Pri month unlike any other.

THE PLACE OF PROMISCUY GAY CULTURE

Followg a man his late 30s (based on Kramer himself) who is seekg out a lovg, long-term relatnship a sea of hedonism, the novel has a clear msage: gay men need to start lovg each other stead of beg so obssed wh gettg fucked up and (lerally and figuratively) fuckg each other. In mastream gay media, the phrase almost always refers to a fairly specific subset of the LGBTQ "muny" largely ma up of whe gay cis men — even though many of the battl won around queer rights were fought by people of lour, trans and genr-nonnformg folks, and queer women, and fact the morn Pri movement self was large part iated by Black trans women. If an imprsn of a monolhic "gay culture" fed by such a homogeneo mographic exists, is bee whe gay cis men have until very recently domated mastream reprentatn unr the LGBTQ umbrella and have, general, been hand a level of privilege the last that is wildly disproportnate to any other mographic unr said umbrella.

UNTTHS AND FACTS ABOUT PEOPLE WHO ARE GAY, LBIAN, OR BISEXUAL

Largely born the 1980s, they are the earlit wave of a "post-Stonewall, post-plague, post-activist" generatn of gays — "too old to have brought a boy to the prom and too young to have nursed a fantasy of nng away to an urban gay utopia, " Wenger explas. Queeri5 pneerg LGBTQ Canadian films you n watch for ee right nowI've seen many of my fellow whe gay cis men seemgly rise to the ocsn by retweetg Black and Indigeno voic, gog to ralli and vowg to te themselv on how to tly be anti-racist (though how performative that is some s is unclear).

Here, we experimentally manipulated reprentatns of gay men by randomly assigng participants to read one of two versns of a fict newspaper article, one of which ntaed fx scientific evince nfirmg the stereotype that gay men are promiscuo, and the other ntag fx scientific evince refutg the stereotype. Moreover, the 2% figure may be an overtimate: evince dit that homosexual behavr is signifintly ls prevalent hunter gatherer societi pared to agricultural societi, suggtg that homosexual orientatn may have emerged as a rult of more recent selectn prsur associated wh the advent of agriculture [23]. Consistent wh the ias, Psof and Haselton [21] found that reprentatns of gay people as promiscuo play a powerful role predictg opposn to gay marriage the Uned Stat, particularly among dividuals pursug a sexually nservative matg strategy (measured by STMO).

WHEN GAY MEN (MIS)MARRY STRAIGHT WOMEN: BONNIE KAYE'S STORY

Intertgly, both implic reprentatns (measured g an implic associatn tt between imag of gay upl and words related to promiscuy) and explic reprentatns (measured g qutnnaire ems) penntly predicted opposn to gay marriage through their teractn wh STMO, implyg a distct role for both nsc and unnsc procs.

Moreover, the rearch is limed to attus toward gay marriage, and therefore nnot addrs whether reprentatns of gay people play a broar role opposn to gay rights and general disapproval of, we expand on this rearch by experimentally manipulatg reprentatns of gay men orr to vtigate the possible al relatnship of the reprentatns wh opposn to gay rights (e. Participants were stcted to tegorize five words related to eher promiscuy (“sual sex, ” “hookup, ” “horny, ” “one-night stand, ” and “ltful”) or monogamy (“married, ” “voted, ” “fahful, ” “lovg, ” “matrimony”) and five imag of eher gay male upl or oppose sex upl. Opposn to gay rights Participants rated their agreement wh four statements relatg to gay marriage [“Marriage is between a man and a woman, ’ “Same-sex marriage unrm the meang of the tradnal fay, ” “I oppose the legalizatn of same-sex marriage, ” and “Same-sex upl should have the same legal rights to get married as heterosexual upl” (reverse d)], one statement relatg to gay adoptn [“Same-sex upl should be prevented om adoptg children”], one statement relatg to gays the ary [“Gay men and women should be allowed to serve openly the ary” (reverse d)], and two statements relatg to general disapproval of homosexualy [“Homosexualy is immoral” and “There is nothg wrong wh beg gay” (reverse d)].

Then, we prent multiple regrsn analys that provi key tts of our predictn that the experimental manipulatn (dummy d as 1 for the stereotype-nfirmg ndn and 0 for the stereotype-refutg ndn) would teract wh short-term matg orientatn to predict opposn to gay rights. Specifilly, low-STMO participants exhibed more support for gay rights the stereotype-refutg ndn than the stereotype-nfirmg ndn, whereas high-STMO participants exhibed no difference between the two ndns (though we found a relatively small effect among high-STMO dividuals unr strict excln creria).

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

If this is the se, one might expect the relatnship between homosexual ntact and antigay prejudice to be particularly pronounced among low-STMO dividuals, and to be mediated by reprentatns of gay people as fdgs are nsistent wh an emergg body of rearch on the role of “value nflicts” generatg tergroup prejudice [6, 33].

Elogil ntexts favorg long-term matg strategi), potentially sheddg light on variatn valu across cultur and over stance, the Uned Stat, acceptance of homosexualy uld have emerged as a rult of short-term matg strategi beg more prevalent, and as new cultural valu evolved to facilate the matg strategi. For stance, early state legalizatns of gay marriage uld have led to creas media pictns of mted, fay-oriented gay upl, and this uld have iated a posive feedback loop leadg to greater acceptance of homosexualy and further creas state legalizatns of gay marriage.

THE EFFECT OF THE PROMISCUY STEREOTYPE ON OPPOSN TO GAY RIGHTS

To what extent media pictns of mted gay upl are pable of alterg reprentatns of gay men and lbians—and thereby creasg support for gay rights—is an addnal qutn for future implitn of the ias guidg this rearch is that antigay attus are far om evable.

PROMISCUO GAY PEOPLE

If antigay attus are ntgent on specific matg strategi teractg wh specific mental reprentatns, both of which may be pable of unrgog rapid change, then antigay attus may be more of a product of cultural and elogil circumstanc than an immutable feature of human nature. There are plenty of gay and queer romantic edi and LGBTQ+ movi that are romantic, light-hearted, pellg, and edic, like Love, Simon, Bros, and Happit SeasonLove, Simon gaed a lot of attentn and buzz durg s 2018 release, maly bee was one of the first mastream gay romantic edi. When to bisexual characters, this n be the rult of wrers wantg to avoid But Not Too Bi; by mtg to a monogamo relatnship, the bisexual character might be emed 'choosg a si', leadg eher to the appearance they were merely gay--nial, or were merely exprsg token same-sex affectns for the sake of fanservice/diversy.

ALL GAYS ARE PROMISCUO

While the story is prented, and ually marketed, as a more or ls "realistic" story about gay issu, pretty much all the gay characters are prented as feverishly sex-obssed, havg polyamoro relatnships wh each other and jt generally bangg each other at every nceivable opportuny. The promiscuy of many of the gay characters is prented as a reactn to the chokg reprsn of their society as well as a rult of pragmatism - when your latt lover may be hled off to a ncentratn mp whout you ever even fdg out, there's not much room for stable monogamy. In the Alternate Universe episo "Epilogue", where the crew was strand on a pla, elimatg any chance that they might ever be rned wh their loved on, Wray mentns that while she had gone on a uple of dat wh another woman sce beg strand, her love for Sharon was gettg the way, providg a rare se of a homosexual character choosg to rema celibate spe havg the optn for a relatnship.

His logic was while women are ndned om a young age not to put out, guys are ndned/enuraged to be more promiscuo and th have ls reluctance to sex general, ergo 's easier to have sex if you're a gay man than a straight man bee the target is more willg.

KEV SPACEY: I N’T TELL WHETHER MEN ARE GAY JT BY LOOKG AT THEM

Moxxie's father Crimson seems to be unr the imprsn that not only is his son not actually Happily Married to Millie and is stead g her as a ver for his gayns, but also that "The Gays" like ratg every flat surface of their hoe wh dildos, as he reveals to a clearly horrified Moxxie. The Feralist Society’s webse ntas a discsn agast same-sex marriage that acc same-sex upl of beg more promiscuo, lls gay adoptn a “social experiment, ” and worri that legalized same-sex marriage will harm relig people by “margalizg those who believe homosexualy is immoral. Osr-wng actor Kev Spacey has said he is attracted to mascule men but is not able to tell whether someone is gay jt by lookg at cross-examatn durg his trial on sex abe charg, the Hollywood star nied he was a “sexual bully” and told the jury he did not have a “power wand” to make people want to sleep wh about his sexual preferenc, Mr Spacey said he had prevly had romantic enunters wh men who would not scribe themselv as homosexual.

THE REAL LIV OF GAY MEN

"He challenged the Crown's claim that there was a "pattern of siary" between the accers bee three claim Mr Spacey "grabbed" them by the crotch, a term Mr Spacey prevly told the urt he "objected" told the jury was "easy" to lie nvcgly, pecially when is about someone such as Kev Spacey who he scribed as a man "who is promiscuo, not publicly out, although everyone the bs knows he's gay who wants to be jt a normal guy to drk beer and lgh and smoke weed and s the ont and spend time wh younger people who he's attracted to" said perhaps Mr Spacey had led "a b of an odd life", but that was "a life that mak you an easy target when the ter turns agast you and you're tried by social media". He told the jury was “easy” to lie nvcgly, pecially when is about someone such as Spacey, who he scribed as: “A man who is promiscuo, not publicly out, although everyone the bs knows he’s gay, who wants to be jt a normal guy, or at least some of the time he do – to drk beer and lgh and smoke weed and s the ont and spend time wh younger people who he’s attracted to. Participants rated their agreement wh four statements relatg to gay marriage [“Marriage is between a man and a woman, ’ “Same-sex marriage unrm the meang of the tradnal fay, ” “I oppose the legalizatn of same-sex marriage, ” and “Same-sex upl should have the same legal rights to get married as heterosexual upl” (reverse d)], one statement relatg to gay adoptn [“Same-sex upl should be prevented om adoptg children”], one statement relatg to gays the ary [“Gay men and women should be allowed to serve openly the ary” (reverse d)], and two statements relatg to general disapproval of homosexualy [“Homosexualy is immoral” and “There is nothg wrong wh beg gay” (reverse d)].

The arguments ma by our bt fenrs of man-woman marriage foc almost exclively on the fn of marriage and the rights of children to have both a mother and a father, and they explicly say their arguments have nothg to do wh the unrlyg qutn of homosexualy. “The most rigoro sgle study—the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study [1987]—reced nearly 5, 000 homosexual men and found that: ‘a signifint majory of the men … (69 to 82%) reported havg 50 or more lifetime sexual partners, and over 80% had engaged receptive anal terurse wh at least some of their partners the prev two years.

Seattle Sex Survey [SSS] (Heterosexual Men & Women)Urban Men’s Health Study [UMHS] (MSM)Seattle MSM RDD [SEA] (MSM)Years2003–20041996–19982003 & 2006Eligibily creriaAge 18–39Seattle rintsPrent analysis rtricted to those who reported exclively heterosexual partnershipsAge 18 or olrNew York Cy, Chigo, San Francis, or Los Angel rintsSame-sex behavr sce age 14 or self-intified as gay or bisexualAge 18 or olrSeattle rintsSame-sex behavr sce age 14Sample sizeN=1, 194 (Heterosexuals, n=926)N=2, 881 (Age<40, n=1, 621)N=800 (Age<40, n=342)Rponse rate24%not reported46% (2003) & 22% (2006)Cooperatn rate46%78%97% (2003) & 87% (2006)Partner-specific qutnsAsked about up to 5 most recent partners (vagal, oral, or anal sex)Asked about up to 4 most recent male partners the past year (any kd of sex)Asked about up to 3 most recent male anal sex partners the past yearThe SSS and the two SEA RDDs were nducted the mid-2000s, while the UMHS, which enrolled MSM om 4 U.

IN DENIAL OVER GAY-DRIVEN MONKEYPOX

Perhaps the separatn of social and sexual works observed among many MSM – a phenomenon that is at least partially ndned by factors such as laws, culture, and attus toward homosexualy – plays a cril role fosterg the staed HIV/STI epimics this populatn. On the gay hookup app Grdr, some e their profil to announce they’re abstag om sexual ntact until their schled vaccatn; queer clubs, some choose to skip the rual takg-off of T-shirts, fearg the prolonged sk-on-sk ntact of an timate dance will put them at is, of urse, que unlike HIV, a vis that has taken the liv of tens of lns globally, and which ravaged gay and bi male muni the wt. Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart, a searg play about that early perd, explored the panic as gay and bi men watched their iends sudnly stricken by vastatg illns and sufferg often unbearable aths, unsure about the e and whether or when would be their btaly of that time feeds to a llective trma among queer men that, for some, has led to a fensivens over monkeypox.

” was one Sun headle 1985; while Jam Anrton, the chief nstable of Greater Manchter police until 1991, nounced gays, dg addicts and sex workers wh HIV for “swirlg a human csp of their own makg” centred on a bigoted dislike of gay sex as unnatural and wrong; and, acrdg to the Brish Social Attus survey, public hostily to same-sex relatns epened the 1980s, only fallg back a later to what were already prsgly tolerant figur 1983.

Some rpond that this is bee gay and bi men are more likely to tt for STIs: but the rearch also shows that even when samplg bias is taken to acunt, ’s clear that men havg sex wh men are almost exclively at Bee the illns has entered works of men who enjoy havg sex wh multiple sexual partners. For some gay men, the fensivens om a fear of beg lumped wh supposedly too promiscuo members of their muny, whom they blame for g homophobic stereotypg, rather than focg their ire on the basels bigotry of some straight any se, those promotg abstentn rponse are, at bt, misguid – there is no evince the history of sexual health that this works, but certaly helps drive stigma when promoted. When I was young, I was told the whole world was divid to heterosexual men and heterosexual women, bar a small number of unfortunate ‘homosexuals’ of both genrs and possibly an even smaller number a third tegory, ‘bisexuals’, who ‘swung both ways’; pl, fally, a ty band of wretched creatur who were physilly not que one thg or the other.

THE FACT NO ONE LIK TO ADM: MANY GAY MEN ULD JT HAVE EASILY BEEN STRAIGHT

Gay relatnships are nothg like straight on:The simple realy is that the gay liftyle nsists of sex wh many strangers and few if any long term, let alone monogamo, than 1% of gays report, to gay iendly rearchers, to havg sex wh fewer than 5 partners. Not only are the health, mental and physil, nsequenc of the gay liftyle ncealed but even the fact that gays are sex addicts is never ’s hardly surprisg given the prevalence of the BGL that support for gay “marriage” is as high as purely on science, gays are dysfunctnal sce om an evolutnary perspective the only purpose of life is to produce offsprg. Bee our objectn to the gay liftyle is based on love mak perfect sense to simultaneoly nmn vlence agast gays, persecutn of gays, and hatred for gays wh efforts to enurage gays to not live the gay liberal rponse of enuragg the gay liftyle is like enuragg smokers to smoke, fat people to eat more, or people who want to amputate their limbs to go right ahead.

THE BIG GAY LIE

If you tly love someone you don’t enable them to do thgs that are realy, #lovews should mean enuragg gays to avoid the gay liftyle not enablg them to live a liftyle that cuts s off their liv and volv the objectifitn of others as thgs to be ed rather than people to be loved. The rults show strong support for the "balancg selectn hypothis, " which is fast beg the accepted theory of the geic basis of male theory holds that the same geic factors that duce gayns mal also promote fecundy (high reproductive succs) those mal' female maternal relativ. Through this tra-off, the maternal relativ' "gay man gen, " though they aren't exprsed as such, tend to get passed to future generatns spe of their tenncy to make their male herors no one knows which gen, exactly, the might be, at least one of them appears to be loted on the X chromosome, acrdg to geic molg by Camper Ciani and his lleagu.

The androphilic pattern that we found is about femal who crease their reproductive value to attract the bt mal, " Camper Ciani told Life's Ltle out, the moms and nts of gay men have an advantage over the moms and nts of straight men for several reasons: They are more fertile, displayg fewer gynelogil disorrs or plitns durg pregnancy; they are more extroverted, as well as funnier, happier and more relaxed; and they have fewer fay problems and social anxieti.

WHY ARE THERE GAY MEN?

He had homosexual relatns, most notably wh the patrician Valeri Catull (who admted que publilly that the emperor’s sexual mands exhsted him) but also wh the pantomime actor Mnter, who Caligula would sh up and kiss durg the middle of his performance.

KEV SPACEY DEFENDS COMG OUT AS GAY AFTER BEG ACCED OF SEXUAL MISNDUCT: ‘I WAS UNR A LOT OF PRSURE’

AM I GAY AND PROMISCUO? (MEN 18 AND OLR ONLY!)