Lego My Gay-go | WIRED

Contents:

• RICK & STEVE: THE HAPPIT GAY COUPLE ALL THE WORLD
• LEGO MY GAY-GO
• LEGO’S MASSIVE FAIL AT CELEBRATG GAY PRI
• ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI

RICK & STEVE: THE HAPPIT GAY COUPLE ALL THE WORLD

One of the biggt onle groups for LGBTQ+ LEGO fans and their alli is undoubtedly GayFOLs. A thrivg onle muny on Facebook, GayFOLs is currently home to over 850 members form all over the world.

I asked s founr, Bce H., to tell a b about his experience and how and why GayFOLs me to be. | 46 | Los Angel, CA, USA | Gay | He/Him.

LEGO MY GAY-GO

As a kid, I didn’t know I was gay, but om how people treated me, I knew I was different — and that different wasn’t okay. I told them how exced I was to meet them, and how I didn’t know there were any other gay AFOLs like me around.

I joked that there should be a way for to fd each other… and wouldn’t be cute if we lled each other “gayFOLs”? It was that day, while standg le, that I got on my phone and created the “GayFOLs” Facebook page thkg would be a great way to meet others like me.

It took a few years before GayFOLs found s purpose. In June 2018, some AFOLs shared Pri MOCs on a popular Facebook page, only to be met by hostily, dismissivens and homophobic vrl. That’s when I remembered my GayFOLs page.

LEGO’S MASSIVE FAIL AT CELEBRATG GAY PRI

From then on, whenever homophobia raised s head on other pag, we’d wave our flag and say “We have a safe place where you n be who you are, and meet others like you!

ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI

GayFOLs rhym wh AFOLs.

Even though GayFOLs has the word “gay” , our membership spans the extend LGBTQ+ acronym, and our learship reflects that same diversy. GayFOLs pretty much ns self.

The stori told at our gathergs stay at our gathergs (GayFOLs safety clus safety om beg outed), but we have e to learn that everyone has a distct story about why or how they end up wh GayFOLs. That’s what GayFOLs beme. Jern92 | 28 | Malaysia | Gay | He/Him.