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Contents:
- HOW TO COPE WHEN YOU'RE GAY AND LONELY
- I'M AAID THAT I'M GAY
- GAYS SRED OF SEX
- HOW TO ACCEPT THAT YOU ARE GAY
- HUNTED - GAY AND AAID
- THE WEEK TV: WNS; THE UGLY FACE OF DISABILY HATE CRIME; DISPATCH: HUNTED: GAY AND AAID
- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS OPENLY GAY: I WANT TO LIVE AND NOT BE AAID
HOW TO COPE WHEN YOU'RE GAY AND LONELY
* gay and afraid *
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.
I'M AAID THAT I'M GAY
He says he’s bisexual, but I’m worried he’s actually gay. * gay and afraid *
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. 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. 14 Ways To Defeat Your Fears of Beg Gay. There are many gay men who say "I'm not part of the scene" -- men who hate gay bars and, prumably, crowds of queer people general.
GAYS SRED OF SEX
The survival show wh a nu twist wel s first gay nttant and send lbian nttant. * gay and afraid *
Internalized homophobia -- self-shamg, self-hatred -- leads many gay men, and many queer people general, to recreate their closets long after they're "out" by shunng others, particularly those they nsir "flamboyant. " Y, there are some good reasons to rce your participatn gay bars (time, money, health). But you mt spend time wh others, whether that means havg a group of gay movie iends or queer gamers or playg on a gay sports team.
HOW TO ACCEPT THAT YOU ARE GAY
Hunted - Gay and Aaid: Dispatch vtigat the well-fund global work of groups that are supportg a new wave of anti-gay legislatn around the world cludg Ameri's "World Congrs of Fai"." data-id="ma * gay and afraid *
Go to gay bars, even if they make you unfortable.
Fd gay iends. This parable piece by lbian wrer Sarah Prager go through the lp of great gays who changed the world -- om ventor Alan Turg to Tchaikovsky, the poser, to the Renaissance pater and ventor Leonardo da Vci. AIDS vastated muni of gay men and transgenr women, particularly gay men and trans women of lor.
HUNTED - GAY AND AAID
Read the numbers: In four years, more than 5, 596 people the Uned Stat had died of AIDS, many of them gay men and transgenr women. But if I hadn't experienced all that adversy, I wouldn't be so furly proud to be gay.
Fd a gay elr who's been where you are and r for your well-beg, someone who unrstands you and never pass judgment, someone who lets you make the mistak you need to make.
Tmp has repeatedly attacked transgenr servicemembers, and gay men are still beg hunted and murred Chechnya.
THE WEEK TV: WNS; THE UGLY FACE OF DISABILY HATE CRIME; DISPATCH: HUNTED: GAY AND AAID
Are you gay or bisexual? There would be no ternalized self-hatred if no one had ever told you that beg gay is wrong, or that gay sex is disgtg, or that gay men n't feel real love, or that beg transgenr is fake, or that beg nonbary is a mental illns or a ll for attentn.
If you thk a word like "gay" or "queer" works for you right now (aga, don't have to work for you forever -- labels do not e wh lifetime ntracts) and you're not ready to tell everyone, simply say out loud to yourself. Cred: Getty ImagHomophob should nsir a ltle self-reflectn, suggts a new study fdg those dividuals who are most hostile toward gays and hold strong anti-gay views may themselv have same-sex sir, albe unrver on. The prejudice of homophobia may also stem om thorarian parents, particularly those wh homophobic views as well, the rearchers add.
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS OPENLY GAY: I WANT TO LIVE AND NOT BE AAID
The rearch, published the April 2012 issue of the Journal of Personaly and Social Psychology, reveals the nuanc of prejudic like homophobia, which n ultimately have dire nsequenc.
"Sometim people are threatened by gays and lbians bee they are fearg their own impuls, a sense they 'doth prott too much, '" Ryan told LiveScience. Ryan utned, however, that this lk is only one source of anti-gay sentiments. Hidn homosexualy.