Are gay youths generally right wing?

[LiberalFG]

"Openly" gay I presume you mean.

Yes you are correct. The closeted ones display over compensatory conservatism from my experience until they come out, and suddenly they no longer have any such prejudices. Sad really. It's almost always been the case.

[Ruaidhri]

I don't think its fair to group all gays together but I would imagine that most gays would be liberal and would vote either right-wing liberal or left-wing liberal so they would vote on a liberal/conservative spectrum ratcher than a left/right spectrum(if we are to generalise).From personal experience though I only know 4 people who would be openly gay but none of them would be particularly political so I have nothing to back this little theory up.

[Chrisco]

How do you know they were gay, and what sample size are you basing this generalization about all these anti-worker, young, pro-rich gays?



Also, as a little thought experiment, go back and re-read your OP to yourself replacing 'gay' with Muslim/Jew/Black/Chinese/Minority of Choice, then think of the indignant outrage with which you'd be typing as you condemned the 'racism/anti-Semitism etc. etc.' of the poster...

[Winalot]

I met a gay youth once in 1987 but he never mentioned politics.
Hard to tell without some research.

[Cronus333]

1) The debating world is a strange one. Most debaters end up drifting towards a vaguely libertarian point of view simply because those liberal and utilitarian principles are what debating arguments are built on.

2) Of late there is an awful lot of gay male students in the Phil who tend to have that viewpoint. It's representative of the debating world, not of anyone else.

[LiberalFG]

All youths like to be radical anyways. They never take a moderate position. I certainly didn't at the time.

[Nano Nagle]

1) The debating world is a strange one. Most debaters end up drifting towards a vaguely libertarian point of view simply because those liberal and utilitarian principles are what debating arguments are built on.

2) Of late there is an awful lot of gay male students in the Phil who tend to have that viewpoint. It's representative of the debating world, not of anyone else.

Maybe that has something to do with it. Perhaps gay right wing males are disproportionately attracted into debating circles. I noticed something similar in other universities too.

[Norman Bates]

I have some gay friends, admittedly most are middle aged. No two share the same politics. Some are left wing, others quite right wing. Some are not in favour of gay marriage either, while some are quite certain that gay marriage is a right.

I suppose it is a matter of different strokes for different folks. I don't think you can generalise a person's politics on their sexual orientation alone.

As one said to me: I've very little in common with a lot of other gays, just my sexual orientation. So, I suppose it is a matter of: don't lump them all together.

[Panopticon]

I can't think of any reason why gays would be a priori left-wing.

[Nano Nagle]

I have some gay friends, admittedly most are middle aged. No two share the same politics. Some are left wing, others quite right wing. Some are not in favour of gay marriage either, while some are quite certain that gay marriage is a right.

I suppose it is a matter of different strokes for different folks. I don't think you can generalise a person's politics on their sexual orientation alone.

As one said to me: I've very little in common with a lot of other gays, just my sexual orientation. So, I suppose it is a matter of: don't lump them all together.

This a youth thread not a middle aged one