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A prevly anonymo IRS whistleblower ttifyg about an vtigatn to Hunter Bin me forward Wednday, intifyg as a gay Democrat.

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GAY HUNTER FDS PATH AND POWER SELF-ACCEPTANCE

Tryg to balance self inty as a gay hunter, om gun rights to gay rights a juxtaposn two different muni. * gay hunting *

I had dropped out of graduate school as the anxiety and fear of beg gay had begun to strangle my will to live. I am gay, and I am ntent here. I learned that "beg Gay was bad, choosg a liftyle of s would lead you to Hell.

" I was bombard wh the e of the words “gross” and “wrong” as synonymo to gay. People talked about beg gay as if were a sickns or at bt somethg to be hidn.

Y, SOME HUNTERS ARE GAY

Rsian LGBTQ activist Yelena Grigoryeva was killed after beg listed on a "Saw" movie-spired webse that offered priz to people who hunt gays. (“Пила”) * gay hunting *

In the high school football and basketball locker room and on the baseball field the words “gay” and “faggot” were ed as sults to the opposg teams. I worked hard to ignore any "gay thoughts.

" I was not gay I told myself. Bee I was gay, I thought I will never f . A gay man nnot enjoy huntg, or sports, or have a fay, I thought.

I have even spoken wh a few hunters who are gay and enjoy the sport as much as I do. My fear was out of worry of losg them, out of the fear that they will be treated differently bee of me beg gay. A world that tells how we should look and act certa plac if we want to belong — whether we are straight or gay, Christian or Mlim, Black or Hispanic.

GROUND RUL FOR OUR GAY HUNTG TRIP

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The sgle most important reason I am happy to be gay is bee has challenged me to look at people and see only someone who is servg of passn and kdns, even though the world may tell me to see somethg else. A story of tryg to balance self inty as a gay hunter.

A GAY MAN GO HUNTG

Fdg that same, or any, pri another part of my life, somethg that unequivolly mak me, “me” was an impossibily – beg gay. The characterizatn of the gay muny by those wh whom I went out huntg warranted nothg but feelgs of disgt. The adults and personali I looked up to and rpected only spoke of the negative stereotyp of homosexualy and associated the same wh weakns or worse.

RSIAN LGBTQ ACTIVIST IS KILLED AFTER BEG LISTED ON GAY-HUNTG WEBSE

Now that I publicly intified as a member of the gay muny, I put extreme prsure on myself to avoid beg st to any stereotype, whether good or bad, and I feared any shortgs my abili, as an outdoorsman or otherwise, would be chalked up to me beg queer. I took pri what I perceived as a lack of outwardly gay characteristics. Instead of servg as a posive example of the gay muny and a ndu for change, I furthered the stereotyp by sayg, “I’m not like ‘them’.

SEND HUNTER BIN IRS WHISTLEBLOWER INTIFIED AS GAY DEMOCRAT

A and I’d be lyg if I said I didn’t still experience a moment of fear and hatn for how the next person will react to learng I’m gay – knowg people will outright hate me as a whole for what amounts to only a small piece of the puzzle, sucks. The same n’t be said wh “g out” as a hunter wh the gay muny (or society at large).

I have been characterized by the acts of a few poachers and trophy hunters, jt the same as my earlier fluencers characterized gays only by those seen pop culture or the news.

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Ground Rul for Our Gay Huntg Trip .

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