Contents:
- HOW TO COPE WHEN YOU'RE GAY AND LONELY
- SGLE FOREVER: STORI AND INSIGHTS OM GAY MEN
- GAY MEN - HAVE YOU SETTLED FOR BEG SGLE FOREVER
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. For the first time I've been able to form a good group of gay iends and create my own support work.
SGLE FOREVER: STORI AND INSIGHTS OM GAY MEN
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.
GAY MEN - HAVE YOU SETTLED FOR BEG SGLE FOREVER
Jt days ago, a ment ntributed to one of my posts alerted me to Steven Bereznai's book, Gay and sgle...
It strik me as ftg that Gay and sgle was published the same year that Sgled Out first appeared prt. Another is that my book clus no gay sex.
What I loved about Gay and sgle were the many observatns, valu, and attus Bereznai and I did share. Sgle gay men, I learned, are targets of some of the same kds of stereotyp that other sgl are - and they, too, are at risk for takg those charg a b too serly. His mom is OK wh him beg gay but worri that as a sgle person, he may grow old alone.