Gay total
merritt k on “Gay High School AU”
for m.l.
in another nature we are sulky
teen boys making out
behind the bleachers
what we can't find
words for we say with our hands
and teeth
fumbling towards the
sinewy rightness
of each others' bodies
From Total Mood Killer (TigerBee Press, ). All rights reserved. Reprinted with the permission of the author.
On "Gay High School AU"
AU stands for "alternate universe." In fanfiction, AUs are ways of using established characters from a TV show, motion picture, comic, or whatever to tell a different kind of story. What if the cast of Brooklyn Nine-Nine worked at a coffee shop. What if Teen Wolf was a western. And so on.
I admire the concept of using these personalities that are going to be familiar to your readers to tell a completely different thoughtful of story than the one they come from. Of course, you could argue that characters are inextricable from narrative and that treating them as neatly separable is a major difficulty with modern fandom and popular examination of fictional media, but that's a complicated conversation I don't wan
Gay people
Lesbian, gay and transgender life in Germany began to thrive at the beginning of the 20th century. Berlin in particular was one of the most liberal cities in Europe with a number of lesbian, gay and trans organisations, cafés, bars, publications and cultural events taking place.
Albrecht Becker &#; imprisoned by the Nazis for being gay
By the s, Paragraph of the German Penal Code, which criminalised homosexual acts, was being applied less frequently. Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institute for Sexual Science led the world in its scientific approach to sexual diversity and acted as an important public centre for Berlin lesbian, gay, bi-curious and transgender life. In the process towards accomplish decriminalisation had been initiated within the German legislature.
Nazi conceptions of race, gender and eugenics dictated the Nazi regime’s hostile policy on homosexuality. Repression against gay men, lesbians and trans people commenced within days of Hitler becoming Chancellor. On 6 May , the Nazis violently looted and closed The Institute for Sexual Science, burning its extensive co
LGBTQ+ Identification in U.S. Now at %
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- LGBTQ+ identification in the U.S. continues to grow, with % of U.S. adults now identifying as womxn loving womxn, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or some other sexual orientation besides heterosexual. The current figure is up from % four years ago and % in , Gallup’s first year of measuring sexual orientation and transgender identity.
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These results are based on aggregated data from Gallup telephone surveys, encompassing interviews with more than 12, Americans aged 18 and older. In each survey, Gallup asks respondents whether they recognize as heterosexual, lesbian, gay, bi-curious, transgender or something else. Overall, % say they are vertical or heterosexual, % identify with one or more LGBTQ+ groups, and % decline to respond.
Bisexual adults make up the largest proportion of the LGBTQ+ population -- % of U.S. adults and % of LGBTQ+ adults say they are bisexual. Queer and lesbian are the next-most-common identities, each representing slightly over 1% of U.S. adults and roughly one in six Homosexual adults. Sligh
Adult LGBT Population in the United States
This report provides estimates of the number and percent of the U.S. adult population that identifies as LGBT, overall, as well as by age. Estimates of LGBT adults at the national, state, and regional levels are included. We rely on BRFSS data for these estimates. Pooling multiple years of data provides more stable estimates—particularly at the state level.
Combining BRFSS data, we estimate that % of U.S. adults identify as LGBT. Further, we estimate that there are almost million (13,,) LGBT adults in the U.S.
Regions and States
LGBT people reside in all regions of the U.S. (Table 2 and Figure 2). Consistent with the overall population in the Merged States,more LGBT adults dwell in the South than in any other region. More than half (%) of LGBT people in the U.S. live in the Midwest (%) and South (%), including million in the Midwest and million in the South. About one-quarter (%) of LGBT adults reside in the West, approximately million people. Less than one in five (%) LGBT adults live in the Northeast ( million).
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