I know ’s not jt our muny, but ’s creasgly mon for gay men to feel isolated and alone.
Contents:
- HOW TO COPE WHEN YOU'RE GAY AND LONELY
- GAY, MIDDLE-AGED, AND LONELY AS HELL
- IS LONELS THE GAY MAN’S CURSE, OR A PRODUCT OF 21ST CENTURY LIFE?
- ON BEG OLR, GAY, SGLE, MALE AND LONELY: PART 2
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. I felt like I was pletely on my rried on until I was 16, when I started gog out to gay bars my hometown. 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. I'd go on gay chatrooms but that was jt a facels nversatn wh someone who uld have been anyone.
GAY, MIDDLE-AGED, AND LONELY AS HELL
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. The Epimic ofGay Lonels.
IS LONELS THE GAY MAN’S CURSE, OR A PRODUCT OF 21ST CENTURY LIFE?
Only a few of the nam of the gay men this article are real. Jeremy[1] is not my only gay iend who’s stgglg. For years I’ve noticed the divergence between my straight iends and my gay iends.
ON BEG OLR, GAY, SGLE, MALE AND LONELY: PART 2
“And told me two sentenc later that she knew I was gay. My parents still claim that they had no ia I was gay.