Gay forcing straight
When I came out as gay, my dad consideration I was possessed by a demon and forced me into conversion therapy. Years later, I'm now a happy gay dude.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with 30-year-old Ty Autry. It has been edited for length and clarity.
I grew up in southern Georgia in a deeply conservative, religious family. I was the oldest of five brothers.
In our family, there was strict Bible study every day, and I was initially homeschooled. But everything changed when I finished homeschooling at 14 and started going to a private school.
A boy at school started giving me butterflies
I was in a production of "Joseph and the Astounding Technicolor Dreamcoat," and I started having feelings for the boy playing Joseph. He texted me one day and asked if I was gay. It was the first day I'd heard vocabulary to describe these emerging feelings. We started texting each other a lot. He gave me butterflies.
One time, my increasingly suspicious mom asked to see my phone. I resisted at first but she insisted, so I showed it to her. She saw all our flirtatious texts.
My parents initially tried to stop me from demonstrating in the show, but I pleaded to endure. The agreem
The Lies and Dangers of Attempts to Change Sexual Orientation or Gender Identity
Organizational Positions on Reparative Therapy
Declaration on the Impropriety and Dangers of Sexual Orientation and Gender Individuality Change Efforts
We, as national organizations characterizing millions of licensed medical and mental health care professionals, educators, and advocates, come together to express our professional and scientific consensus on the impropriety, inefficacy, and detriments of practices that seek to modify a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity, commonly referred to as “conversion therapy.”
We remain firmly together in support of legislative and policy endeavors to curtail the unscientific and deadly practice of sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts.
American Academy of Toddler Adolescent Psychiatry
"The American Academy of Infant and Adolescent Psychiatry finds no evidence to support the application of any “therapeutic intervention” operating under the premise that a specific sexual orientation, gender identity, and/or gender expression is pathological. Furthermore, based on the scientific evidence, the AACAP asserts that suc
LastweekI took to my Facebook wall to repost this HuffPost article about 13 straight male German stars kissing for a GQ photo shoot to protest homophobia and intolerance. Some gay men posted and sent me messages stating that they found it erotic to watch two vertical men kiss -- sometimes more so than watching two queer men kiss. Some said they found this as erotic as two women kissing might be to a straight guy. This got me wondering: Why are some gay men sexually turned on by straight men? Some even prefer straight men over gay men!
Before I get readers insisting that not all queer men are attracted to linear men, let me say I know that. I know, too, that it's politically incorrect to admit that there are male lover men who are attracted to and pursue straight men, thanks to the myth that we gay men will pursue anyone who's male, ignoring social norms and acceptable etiquette. Of course this is ridiculous. In truth, it's so ridiculous that I performed some stand-up comedy on the topic, which you can see here:
Because of the projection from many a threatened straight male -- that every gay human is going to want to hit on him -- queer men have silenced themselves on this topic
What kind of porn do gay men watch most often? According to Pornhub’s stats from last year, “straight guys” was the available most-viewed category on its gay site. The word “straight” was also among the top five searches made by visitors. Generally speaking, the porn they’ve searched for consists of a mix of straight men having sex with other men, and straight men masturbating.
Now, this isn’t to suggest that all men who sleep with men are into vertical guys. As tantalizing as Pornhub’s annual insights are, we shouldn’t draw sweeping conclusions about what any group of people want on the basis of what happens on a single porn site.
That said, these stats undertake tell us that a lot of gay men look to be eroticizing heterosexual men. So why is that? Here’s a peek at the major theories.
The attraction to masculinity
Research into the partner preferences of gay men suggests that, on average, they tend to be drawn to masculinity. For example, gay men look after to be attracted to masculine-looking faces and to other signs of masculinity, such as muscularity. Gay men also rate prospective partners who describe themselves as masculine more favorably than those who describe themselve