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- 13 VERY GAY AND VERY GOOD BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ THIS PRI MONTH
- GAY PRI
- FEATURED STORI
- ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
13 VERY GAY AND VERY GOOD BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ THIS PRI MONTH
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S., where beg gay was safer than Iran, I realized I didn't have to lie about who I was, so I me out to my mom. After tellg her, she locked herself our apartment and threatened suici unls I stopped beg gay.
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Askg for advice on havg a gay son. She feared judgment om our muny, but more than anythg, she feared for my safety and the challeng I would face as a gay man. I remember a time when I wanted to go to this big gay Halloween party.
Urty of GurzaJP BrammerAuthor of Hola Papi: How to Come Out a Walmart Parkg Lot and Other Life Lsons“I remember when I me out to my nt, whom I’ve always been close to, I said, “Auntie, I thk I’m gay.
Even though we lived Massachetts, which is a liberal state, this was the early 2000s, so still wasn't like is now that people are more ted and everyone seems to know somebody who's gay or a celebry who's nonbary. My mother’s homophobia was one of the reasons I waed to e out.
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Every time my mother would see a gay woman, she would say, “if one of my children be like that, I’ll kill them. Growg up, I thought if I got married and had a baby, I wouldn’t have to tell my mother that I was gay and uld be normal.
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Years later, bothered me how men would stigmatize gay men but sexualize gay later, bothered me how men would stigmatize gay men but sexualize gay women and I got a ltle more open wh my sexualy but wouldn’t say I was bi. However, my “nephew” (an olr ’s son) was batg g out and so sred bee of a lot of the anti-gay and bigoted rhetoric he had heard around him, his fay and the media.
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Then, last summer havg a lot of nversatns around BLM and anti-racism and bigotry, my maternal grandmother ed gay slurs and I let her know was unacceptable and that she shouldn’t speak that way as a Christian and havg a gay granddghter.
My mom approached me, askg about me beg gay and how she didn’t know. But I wasn’t out to any of my guy iends at all, bee I wanted my inty to be the metalhead, the funny guy, not the gay guy. I would go out at the gay clubs or dtrial metal goth shows (where all the guys are wearg more makp than the girls anyway), but wasn’t my day-to-day realy.
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