This I Believe: Gay Forever, Hell For Never | NPR Illois

Contents:

• HOW TO COPE WHEN YOU'RE GAY AND LONELY
• THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG
• CAN PEOPLE STOP BEG GAY?
• THIS I BELIEVE: GAY FOREVER, HELL FOR NEVER
• SGLE FOREVER: STORI AND INSIGHTS OM GAY MEN
• DEAR DAD, WE'VE BEEN GAY FOREVER | WH CYNTHIA NIXON
• HOW TO KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY
• HOW TO ACCEPT THAT YOU ARE GAY
• DEAR DAD: WE’VE BEEN GAY FOR A REALLY LONG TIME

HOW TO COPE WHEN YOU'RE GAY AND LONELY

Part of realizg you're gay, or bi, or trans, or non-bary, or anythg other than cisgenr and heterosexual is acceptg you’re different—and somewhat separated—om the majory. Here he shar his journey to overe the sense of isolatn he felt growg up gay a small U. At the time, there were no real gay role mols except for Graham Norton and Jack om Dawson's Creek—and I certaly didn't intify wh him bee I wasn't a football player.

THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG

I felt like I was pletely on my rried on until I was 16, when I started gog out to gay bars my hometown.

CAN PEOPLE STOP BEG GAY?

I ma one gay iend, who I'm actually close to now. For the first time I've been able to form a good group of gay iends and create my own support work.

THIS I BELIEVE: GAY FOREVER, HELL FOR NEVER

I'd go on gay chatrooms but that was jt a facels nversatn wh someone who uld have been anyone.

SGLE FOREVER: STORI AND INSIGHTS OM GAY MEN

I thk if I'd had iends who were gay when I was growg up, my life would have been so different.

I now know there were other kids at my school who were gay, but they didn't e out till much later. Recently, Alan Hollghurst said the gay novel is ad.

"There was an urgency, a novelty to the whole thg, " said the gay thor, who won the Man Booker Prize for The Le of Bety.

DEAR DAD, WE'VE BEEN GAY FOREVER | WH CYNTHIA NIXON

" Maybe that's bee Baldw said the book isn't actually about beg gay. "Gvanni's Room is not really about homosexualy, " said Baldw a 1980 terview about queer life.

Go Tell It on the Mounta, for example, is not about a church, and Gvanni is not really about homosexualy.

SJ Sdu, thor of Marriage of a Thoand Li, lled , "One of the first Anglophone works to challenge the trope of the sad/suicidal gays who die at the end, this book gave a blueprt of what queer fictn uld look like. Forster (A Passage to India, A Room Wh a View, Howards End) wrote the benchmark gay novel Mrice cir 1913, was published posthumoly a lh tale of manners, posn, and sire, the tular character meets and falls for his classmate Clive while at Oxford.

HOW TO KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY

The pair embark on a two-year affair until Clive leav Mrice to marry a woman and live out his proscribed life as part of the land gentry, leavg Mrice shambl and seekg to cure his Forster's novel do not end gay tragedy. The thor of Night Drop, Marshall Thornton lled the novel "the origal gay romance.

HOW TO ACCEPT THAT YOU ARE GAY

Alan Hollghurst famoly qutned the future of the gay novel this year, which is strikg sce he's often viewed as helpg make queer books accsible to a mastream dience.

Hollghurst set his pen on the sexual hypocrisi of homophobic policians, many of whom had their own discretns behd closed doors.

DEAR DAD: WE’VE BEEN GAY FOR A REALLY LONG TIME

The book follows Nick Gut, a gay graduate stunt unofficially adopted by the fay of a schoolmate.