‘The Doodler’: Slayer Of At Least Five Gay Men In The 1970s Has Never Been Cght | Thought Catalog

Contents:

• AS A GAY MAN, I’LL NEVER BE NORMAL
• DISABILY: 'PEOPLE ASSUME I N'T BE GAY BEE I'M DISABLED'
• NOT EVERY GAY MAN IS DTF
• JENNA DEWAN REACTS AFTER JOJO SIWA SAID SHE HELPED HER REALIZE SHE'S GAY: 'NEVER BEEN MORE HONORED'
• ‘THE DOODLER’: SLAYER OF AT LEAST FIVE GAY MEN IN THE 1970S HAS NEVER BEEN CGHT
• AM I GAY? QUIZ – 100% RELIABLE TT

AS A GAY MAN, I’LL NEVER BE NORMAL

Every norm everywhere all at as a gay man, I celebrate an nvenient tth of Pri Month: We’ll never be normal.

DISABILY: 'PEOPLE ASSUME I N'T BE GAY BEE I'M DISABLED'

That majory asi, when we discs self-intifyg gay men, lbians, asexuals, pansexuals, two-spir, nonbary and transgenr folks, ’s jt roughly 3 percent of the populatn. Heterosexuals make up a greater percentage of the untry than whe people do on the Supreme ask everyday Amerins to gus at jt the gay and lbian populatn, and Gallup shows they nsistently overtimate. A majory of the untry thks that at least 20 percent of Amerins — at least one five of — are gay or lbian.

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NOT EVERY GAY MAN IS DTF

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JENNA DEWAN REACTS AFTER JOJO SIWA SAID SHE HELPED HER REALIZE SHE'S GAY: 'NEVER BEEN MORE HONORED'

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‘THE DOODLER’: SLAYER OF AT LEAST FIVE GAY MEN IN THE 1970S HAS NEVER BEEN CGHT

If, like me, one of your first troductns to the LGBTQ scene was Queer as Folk (both the Brish and Amerin versns), then your ma takeaway was probably that gay men like to fuck… a lot.

AM I GAY? QUIZ – 100% RELIABLE TT

From the dark rooms of clubs (y, they very much do exist beyond the cliché), the snas and bathho, and now the apps stalled on nearly every gay man’s phone, gay sex is accsible night and sheer staggerg amount of lube asi, ’s an unrstandable (and perhaps warranted) stereotype that gay men partake a lot of sex.

And if a lot of gay media is to believed, we’re all thirsty bch eager to fd the next Instathottie, shirtls Jonas Brother, or daddy whose “hottt moments” are plastered all over the Inter. It’s not jt gay media, eher.

If you hang out wh a group of gay guys (and I’m severely generalizg here), chanc are a lot of the nversatn will fl between RuPl’s Drag Race and sex—who’s a top and who’s a bottom? While certa rners of gay media would do well to be more diverse and clive of race and different bodi, ’s rather brilliant we live a time where BuzzFeed n post a listicle wrten by a gay man thirstg after bulg.