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.

THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG

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.

CAN PEOPLE STOP BEG GAY?

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

THIS I BELIEVE: GAY FOREVER, HELL FOR NEVER

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.

SGLE FOREVER: STORI AND INSIGHTS OM GAY MEN

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

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

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

I now know there were other kids at my school who were gay, but they didn't e out till much later.

HOW TO KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY

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.

HOW TO ACCEPT THAT YOU ARE GAY

" 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.

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

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