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Homosexuality as an orientation is natural and healthy. It follows that homosexuality, though a natural basis for potential intimate relationships, is a questionable basis for collective belonging absent an extrinsic, unifying cause. Breadcrumb Trail Links. In the 50 or so years since gay men and lesbians began organizing against discrimination and intolerance on the basis of sexuality, they have substantially although not completely succeeded in North America and Western Europe, among other places.

At least with respect to gay men, it risks diverting attention from another, potentially significant contributing factor to poor mental health: gay identity itself. You can manage your saved articles in your account and clicking the X located at the bottom right of the article.

Postmedia is committed to maintaining a lively but civil forum for discussion. In short, the community that helped gay men politically can contribute to harming them psychologically. Subscriber only. Having largely achieved their political goals, gay men might benefit from casting off the constructed identity which it was necessary to embrace in a hostile era.

Comments may take up to an hour to appear on the site. View more offers. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Advertisement oop. Tim Wood was legislative assistant to former Liberal MP Irwin Cotler who, as justice minister, enshrined same-sex marriage in Canadian law.

Supreme Court confirms as much. That would be true liberation — and accord with the original spirit of Pride. The consensus among LGBTQ activists, progressive politicians and mental health professionals is that these negative indicators reflect continued homophobia and discrimination.

The words are adjectives describing sexual acts, not people. Search ottawacitizen. Advertisement 1. But it does so in a selective way, including some people and marginalizing others. To answer the question on the minds of hundreds of Google users, most of whom live in Tennessee: No, Woody from Toy Story is not bisexual—at least, not canonically.

Why, despite those advances, do gay men and lesbians remain more prone than their peers to anxiety, depression, addiction and suicide? Having served its original, political purpose, the gay community in North America today plays a predominantly social role.

Back in , when animated sequel Finding Dory featured a brief shot of two women with a baby, many viewers assumed that they were a same-sex couple, but Disney refused to confirm it and the movie’s star Ellen DeGeneres appeared to deny it. Doing so would mark the final, empowering step in an evolution from oppressed group to free individuals: free not only from homophobia but from tribal strictures.

Please keep comments relevant and respectful. It has not been confirmed by Disney whether or not Woody will be openly bisexual in the upcoming flick (in the past three films, he was not). But for this gay man, there are reasons to ask whether the associated identity now does more harm than good.

This advertisement has not loaded yet. You will receive an email if there is a reply to your comment, an update to a thread you follow or if a user you follow comments. But in mid-March , NPC published an article reporting that Woody — voiced by iconic actor Tom Hanks — would be openly bisexual in Toy Story 4.

That explanation is simplistic and expedient. By continuing to use our site, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Yet gay identity, in contrast to most homosexuality, is not intrinsic. On 19 March , the entertainment site NPC Daily published an article reporting that the Tom Hanks-voiced cowboy character "Woody" would be "openly bisexual" in the upcoming Disney/Pixar.

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