Am I Gay? How Do You Know If You Are Gay? | HealthyPlace

Contents:

• HOW TO COPE WHEN YOU'RE GAY AND LONELY
• AM I GAY?
• HOW DO I KNOW IF I AM GAY? SIGNS YOU ARE GAY
• AM I GAY? HOW DO YOU KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY?

HOW TO COPE WHEN YOU'RE GAY AND LONELY

I am gay but have never admted this to anyone. My iends probably spect I am gay, but we have never discsed . Your iends, who might already spect that you’re gay, will get to know you on a eper level and likely feel much closer to you.

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.

AM I GAY?

I ma one gay iend, who I'm actually close to now. 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.

HOW DO I KNOW IF I AM GAY? SIGNS YOU ARE GAY

I'm gay. I’m gay and nobody knows!

AM I GAY? HOW DO YOU KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY?

Gay - While this adjective has historilly scribed men who are attracted to other men, the term now is ed to refer to anyone who experienc romantic, emotnal, or physil attractn to people of the same genr. Sce genr inty and sexual orientatn are separate, transgenr people n intify as straight, gay, lbian, bisexual, etc.

Particularly when young, some people may ask, "How do I know if I am gay?