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Contents:

• MY GAY DIVORCE MA ME FEEL LIKE I’D LET THE QUEER MUNY DOWN
• AFTER 20 YEARS OF MARRIAGE, MY DAD CAME OUT AS GAY
• GAYDIVORCE STORI
• MY HBAND DIVORCED ME FOR HIS GAY LOVER – THEN TOOK OUR CHILDREN
• FEATURED STORI
• CELEBRATG MY (GAY) DIVORCE
• I GOT GAY MARRIED. I GOT GAY DIVORCED. I REGRET BOTH.
• I WAS MARRIED WH 2 KIDS WHEN I REALIZED I’M GAY

MY GAY DIVORCE MA ME FEEL LIKE I’D LET THE QUEER MUNY DOWN

Dpe the feat, as always, we got back up and spent the months leadg up to 15 November havg nstant nversatns, rallyg, llg strangers and fay members and watchg on as the far right were given a platform to exercise their “eedom of speech”, which ultimately did damage to so many of the while I attend the ralli, had the nversatns and watched the hate unfold, I was harbourg what I felt was a dirty secret: I was a that same time as the untry was batg gay marriage, my “wife” of three years and partner of eight and I were gog through our gay divorce. Why was my story of gay divorce not one to share durg this time?

AFTER 20 YEARS OF MARRIAGE, MY DAD CAME OUT AS GAY

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Like the time he told me he had gone on a porn se to see how gay men “do . I’ve known upl, gay and straight, who were open relatnships.

GAYDIVORCE STORI

The steam room and sna at my lol Y served as a kd of after-work social club for men who were gay ― and for those who had wiv and kids. I knew a gay imprar when I lived San Francis the 1980s.

One night he threw a dner party for his gay circle of iends at Trar Vic’s.

MY HBAND DIVORCED ME FOR HIS GAY LOVER – THEN TOOK OUR CHILDREN

The annual Tribe Film Ftival jt wrapped earlier this month, and one of the films on everyone's mouths was Our Son, starrg out actors Billy Porter and Le so many LGBTQ+ films s past have foced on the search for and formatn of queer love, Our Son tak a different, ls talked about approach, tellg the story of an terracial gay uple (and fathers) the midst of a divorce. The first time my dad tried to tell me he was gay, didn't go well.

FEATURED STORI

What I gleaned om his ramblgs were that he believed that human sexualy was a ntuum and that if he hadn't been born and raised a relig fah that shunned homosexualy, he might have gravated more towards that si of the spectm. "Dad told me he's gay.

He was gay. Not maybe gay some parallel universe.

My dad was gay now, our actual life.

CELEBRATG MY (GAY) DIVORCE

My dad was gay for real.

Although had never crossed my md that my dad might be gay, wasn't a total shock eher. This environment mouflaged my dad's te sexual inty, both om himself and the rt of dad was his early 40s when he realized he was gay. They thought that "beg gay" would maybe pass, but they also explored the ia of havg an "arrangement" their marriage.

The news me as a shock to her, as do to many men and women who learn their spoe is gay. "I went to the marriage very termed not to be gay, " he says. " But Jeff is gay and the news shocked Betty.

I GOT GAY MARRIED. I GOT GAY DIVORCED. I REGRET BOTH.

Society's creasg acceptance of gays and lbians and the Supreme Court lg June that legalized same-sex marriage have foced attentn on sexual orientatn.

I WAS MARRIED WH 2 KIDS WHEN I REALIZED I’M GAY

Spo like Betty Wae often feel nfed and betrayed when their partners announce they're gay.