When a straight woman marri a gay man, what do she experience?
Contents:
- 'DID I EVER REALLY KNOW HIM?': THE WOMEN WHO MARRIED GAY MEN
- WHEN GAY MEN (MIS)MARRY STRAIGHT WOMEN: BONNIE KAYE'S STORY
- IS MY HBAND GAY? SIGNS OF A GAY HBAND
- ‘HONEY, I’VE GOT A SECRET’ : WHEN GAY MEN E OUT TO THEIR WIV
'DID I EVER REALLY KNOW HIM?': THE WOMEN WHO MARRIED GAY MEN
* gay men's wives *
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WHEN GAY MEN (MIS)MARRY STRAIGHT WOMEN: BONNIE KAYE'S STORY
“This poor gay guy was the target for all my built-up anger.
As her dad pulled up she opened her purse, fat wh not, and phed them all to the bewilred man’s hands before beg whisked is one of a potentially dyg breed of women: those who married closeted gay men.
“Some women ntact the service before their hband is even aware they know he’s gay, ” she says. Never once did she spect he was gay. I’m not gay but really nfed and I thk I need you to move back to Atralia so I n work myself out.
IS MY HBAND GAY? SIGNS OF A GAY HBAND
Lucy, now 24, hid at school the fact her dad was gay. I don’t believe bisexualy, I thk he was gay, ” she says.
“When you love someone and you know you’re gay, you don’t marry them.
‘HONEY, I’VE GOT A SECRET’ : WHEN GAY MEN E OUT TO THEIR WIV
And many of the men, embolned by the sense of eedom and h excement afford them by disverg the gay scene, pletely scrib the impact had on her children. “My sons’ iends would e over and ask, is your dad gay?