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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.

GAY MEN - HAVE YOU SETTLED FOR BEG SGLE FOREVER

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. 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. Beg Gay and Forever Alone. Beg gay is no longer unique, special, ol, or tertg.

I'm 100% fortable wh my sexualy and don't nsir myself any different om anyone else JUST bee I'm gay.

SGLE FOREVER: STORI AND INSIGHTS OM GAY MEN

Gay men are jt like everyone else. Gay men are people, and gay men as a llective are Normi, jt like straight men and straight women. If you don't nform to the Normie expectatns, you are ostracized by gay men too, jt like straight men and women (and lbians) I'm sure experience om their brethren.

Gay muni STILL eakg thk that every gay man that has FA problems or problems general stggl wh them due to their sexualy. That's the problem, they refe to see that that's not the se, and you n still be a gay man that has issu pletely unrelated to beg gay, but jt beg a lonely man general.

For example, go to r/askgaybros, or any other gay fom, and browse the topics.

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