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Can You Decide To Stop Being Gay?

on January 19th, 2010 by B.Graff

Gays have a media image as happy-go-lucky and carefree, but the reality is that it can be hard to be openly gay.
Reconciling your desires with religious upbringings, negative reaction from friends and family, and socially sanctioned devaluation of our lives can produce an amount of internalized homophobia that requires a huge amount of energy [...]

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Using Rape To “Fix” Gay People

on December 29th, 2009 by B.Graff

One of the many absurdities gay people have to contend with is dealing with people who believe same-sex desires can be modified with a little heterosexual lovin’.
A benign form of this is challenging gay people by asking if they’re sure and trying to find out if they have had heterosexual sex, as if [...]

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