What is Gay man?
{{use dmy dates}} {{LGBTQ sidebar}} [[File:Gay Couple Kissing.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Two young gay men kissing.]] A '''gay man''' is a [[homosexual]] man. This means a man who is sexually attracted to other men, and not to women.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Martin |first1=James I. |title=Gay Men |url=https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780195389678/obo-9780195389678-0118.xml |publisher=Oxford Bibliographies |accessdate=28 January 2022}}</ref> == Gay rights movement == Gay men were involved in the early [[gay liberation]] (a movement of homosexuals who want to be treated equally to heterosexuals) movement.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Lemmey |first1=Huw |title=Party and protest: the radical history of gay liberation, Stonewall and Pride |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/25/party-and-protest-lgbtq-radical-history-gay-liberation-stonewall-pride |website=The Guardian |accessdate=23 May 2023}}</ref> Gay liberation is the political and social movements that promote LGBT equality and rights. However, there was conflict between homosexuals and [[transgender]] people in the gay right's movement.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Lavietes |first1=Matthew |title=Tensions between trans women and gay men boil over at Stonewall anniversary |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-gay-pride-transgender/tensions-between-trans-women-and-gay-men-boil-over-at-stonewall-anniversary-idUSKCN1TV0V0 |website=Reuters |accessdate=23 May 2023}}</ref> In the 1970s some homosexual activists wanted the transgender people out of the gay's rights movement. They wanted gay liberation to be accepted by society. They believed transgender people were less accepted by society and might hurt the gay movement.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Ellis |first1=Nick |title=Power and Community: The Queer Liberation Movement of the 1960s and 1970s |journal=Historical Perspectives: Santa Clara University Undergraduate Journal of History |date=2020 |volume=2 |issue=25 |url=https://scholarcommons.scu.edu/historical-perspectives/vol25/iss1/8 |accessdate=23 M