why are the younger people in life turning to be gay?

Question

There are many young people turning out to be gay , and they are starting out younger and young why is that I go to school with a lot of gay people are I just say they have,nt made up there mine yet.

Answer 1

The more accepted variations of sexuallity become the more people will no longer be afraid to admit where they stand.

Do you realize how many suicides were committed by children who were gay in the 70's and 80's?

Answer 2

I don't care whether you believe people are born gay or not (no real strong evidence either way), I don't think someone that is 12, 14, 16 or likely older is totally comfortable with their sexuality. It's not wrong to say that someone may be making up their mind about their sexuality (this is not saying they are making a choice about being gay per se), because they most likely are still coming to understand their sexuality. It's more about the fact that all kids are growing up too fast, and sexuality is too rampant amongst young children, they are thus faced with a difficult decisions earlier in life than they may be ready. It's a too bad. The carefree days of childhood are seemingly getting replaced with sexuality matters, politics, abuse, drugs, etc.

Answer 3

Have you made up your mind yet? Just wondering.

There have always been gay young people. People didn't realize it, though, because most gay people were terrified of being found out. I guess I would have been too, if I'd had to worry about what men and women in those days went through.

Answer 4

In the last 20 years things/society/the world at large, have begun to accept or tolerate gays now. I & my partner find that life, even here in our little corner of the world, is now pretty unaffected by our presence. This makes it easier to come out and less tempting to stay closeted. It was definitely NOT cool to be gay when I first began to deal with my gay-ness. Wow - what a change for the better.

Answer 5

i think of the "recruit" element got here up by using fact the usually misinformed public believes that str8 people merely beget str8 people and because gay people can no longer beget gay people (a minimum of no longer that i comprehend of) they ought to recruit. What those str8 people fail to realize is that being gay is unlike changing to Catholicism: it is not something one consciously comes to a decision to do. Sexuality is complicated-under pressure out into the recommendations at start and under the desirable nurturing circumstances will improve and be known. And str8's could be detest to admit that their holy union, blessed by potential of God and all the saints of Heaven, ought to effect in a gay toddler! HEAVEN FORFEND!!! nicely, sorry people yet because we gays can no longer reproduce, you str8 persons are those to blame for the gay community. OOPS! good success elevating your infants. You sound like a discern with consumer-friendly experience, persistence and tolerance.

Answer 6

I am 16 and came out at 14.. It was not by choice at first but then i was like yea you got a problem with it? But i have noticed ALOT of bi guys that are coming into my high school as freshmen. And also alot of other guys coming out since it is more acceptable. But i don't think it is a trend thing, some people do choose and some people born this way. I know a couple of guys who say, "i choose to be this way cause i am tired of girls." Alot of younger guys are bi and not fully gay, and they just do things with their best friends secretly.

Answer 7

It's not that more people are becoming gay or bi, it's that more people are comfortable coming out at younger ages, rather than, say, getting married, holding in a big secret, cheating, and then getting divorced in middle age. Which is a good thing for everybody.

Would you say a straight teen hasn't made up their mind? If not, you're insulting LGBT people and your peers. I knew I was bi when I was a kid.

Answer 8

Young people in life in general are getting more sexual at younger ages. It's not just gay people. And the gay lifestyle is more and more accepted as the years progress so it's easier for younger kids to come out. It's not that there are "more" gay people it's just that more are coming out sooner because they are less persecuted for it. I couldn't come out until after I finished college because of the stigma and persecution. Just be happy for the people who can come out earlier and accept them for who they are.

Answer 9

The preponderance of evidence for decades, despite the rumblings on the Right has indicated that the number of males who are either exclusively homosexual or SHOULD be because of the level of the emotional and sexual attraction they feel for other males and the lack thereof for females is approximately 10% of the male population. Studies have also shown that functional bisexual desire among males (males desiring males AND females) is another several percent at least.

Due to enormous social pressure historically, most males knew what they wanted but hid it. They married, had sex with wives (often only possible through fantasizing males) and had children. On the side they met men in bathhouses and bars, in clubs and in tearooms, and had sex -- often without even knowing their partners names. The contact they had with males was what made life livable -- but they called themselves straight and everyone thought there weren't any homosexuals.

After the Stonewall Rebellion, homosexuals started, slowly, to refuse to hide. So in the early 80s, I, as a young person, was able to come out gay -- and did. About 1 to 3% of men my age are out -- and I know several married men, friends from highschool, who haven't had sex with their wives in decades and do have some form of sex regularly with other males -- they will call themselves gay to me, but no one else knows. Often they don't even call themselves gay to each other with long term "Jerk off buddies" that constitute their actual major source of sexual and emotional release.

In the 90s, the percentage that would come out and live normal happy lives went up a little more. I've heard fairly reliable (but not peer reviewed) estimates of about 5% -- but I know younger men who live just as my same age friends do -- so it certainly isn't higher than 5%.

Despite the nutcases on the Right that are trying to keep people from coming out -- among the younger ones, an actual majority of the homosexual boys are acknowledging that they are homosexual, and are being themselves, rather than a tortured construct wearing a mask to keep other people happy.

I think its wonderful. We (my partner and I) know some young ones, just out of highschool -- and seeing them having the courage to do things we never dared do at that age (like hold hands in the theater) warms my heart (of course I think all young couples are adorable, so...)

So I don't think that all the younger people are gay, but I do think that those that are gay are more likely to show it -- and I think that's healtheir for them, and for the world.

Reynolds
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Answer 10

I think is not that they are turning into gays is just that right now is more expression and people is not afraid of feeling the way they feel, cause right now is less people judgin the way we act and the way we feel so I think being gay is not like fashion is just that people is open to experience their own feelings and being proud with it