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6 STEPS TOWARDS WHOLE-HEARTEDLY LOVG YOURSELF AS A FEME GAY MAN
A recent study om Brazil shows how gay and bisexual men’s attus toward masculy and femy affect their mental health. * feminine gay guy *
When I was a teenager, I was volly adamant about not beg attracted to other feme gay boys. I knew I talked like what people image gay men talk like. No one celebrated feme gay men, and I wasn’t strong or pennt enough to stand on my own and celebrate myself.
I thought myself above the stereotyp – I was not like those gays, I told myself. I saw other feme gay boys as ritur and myself as a fully three-dimensnal person.
I tried sperately to expla my thought procs, hopg somehow that my distaste for feme gay men was jtified – that I would still be the right. I didn’t fd all the answers that night, or the next week, or month, but he set me on the path to self-love, out of the shadow of an unfortunately homonormative fluence. I loathe g the word victim, but seems the most accurate terms of the young, feme gay male experience – an experience which we’re never even given a shot to love ourselv bee we’re told not to om the start.