Would it shock you to find out that only four states have laws that require sex ed classes to be inclusive of LGBTQ issues and 12 states require that sexual orientation be a topic in sexual education classes? Not when the statistics show that 39 states and the District of Columbia require sex education and/or … Continue reading Why Sex Ed Needs To Include LGBTQ Issues
Why Do We Need To Label Sexuality?
Why do we, as humans, feel the need to label everything that we interact with? Labels define a thing which creates a box for it to live in, the box gives us boundaries of what something is or is not. The boundaries offer us a safe place to navigate and to stay away from the … Continue reading Why Do We Need To Label Sexuality?
How Do I Deal With My Body Hair?
Since today is Friday and Corona still has us all on lock down, I thought I would take a lighter approach today. This is a topic that always causes me some distress, whether it is how I deal with it personally or how I see others deal. So, let us take a look at a … Continue reading How Do I Deal With My Body Hair?
Getting Social
I have been blogging for years, but GayintheCLE is only about a year and a half old. It started out as a way for me to get the thoughts out of my head and to be able to deal with them. Later, I grew my blog into a forum for sexual education. At the time … Continue reading Getting Social
Why are you asking?
I’m a bit of a YouTube addict. Recently, I saw a coming-out video from a popular vlogger that rubbed me the wrong way. The vlogger criticized his viewers who had asked about his orientation. According to him, asking “are you gay” constituted a personal attack. He said that his orientation was nobody’s business, but then … Continue reading Why are you asking?
Paganism and LGBTQ
Being LGBTQ can be hard on us in many ways. The most known are how it can change our relationships with family and friends. We also can see how it affects job and such. What is less talked about is how it may affect our belief system. Most of us grew up in a Christian … Continue reading Paganism and LGBTQ
The Most Important Relationship
As we near Valentine’s Day we see a sudden urgency to find someone to spend it with. It becomes like a need to be in a relationship. It’s all we think about and think we need. In this mindset we often sacrifice the greatest relationship that we can have, the one with ourselves. We have … Continue reading The Most Important Relationship
Toxic Masculinity in Action
We know that bigotry exists, we see it every day. Sometimes, we forget how far people will go with their judgments. We forget all the people that can be affected just because someone has a dislike for another person. I was reminded of the far-reaching scope of hatred recently, when two of my friends came … Continue reading Toxic Masculinity in Action
Toxic Masculinity
Psychology defines toxic masculinity as traditional cultural masculine norms that can be harmful to men, women, and society overall; this concept of toxic masculinity is not intended to demonize men or male attributes, but rather to emphasize the harmful effects of conformity to certain traditional masculine ideal behaviors such as dominance, self reliance, and competition. … Continue reading Toxic Masculinity
World Aids Day
When I was a young gay kid, before I came out and understood what I was, I hadn't had much connection with a LGBTQ community. Keep in mind that when I was a child that was late 1970s through the 1980s. The only LGBTQ people that I even knew were two women who lived … Continue reading World Aids Day
Gay in the CLE 