How to Cope When You're Gay and Lonely | GQ

Contents:

• HOW TO COPE WHEN YOU'RE GAY AND LONELY
• MEET THE GAYBROS
• 17 SIGNS YOUR BOYIEND IS SECRETLY GAY (& WHAT TO DO)
• AS A GAY MAN, I’LL NEVER BE NORMAL

HOW TO COPE WHEN YOU'RE GAY AND LONELY

Go to askgaybros. If I take him to gay events he be credibly nscendg sayg how everyone there works some medire job at starbucks or somethg and how they're all ugly and stupid and should try readg a book. Straight men who have engaged suatnal homosexualy (such as prison or the ary), what's your story?

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.

MEET THE GAYBROS

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.

17 SIGNS YOUR BOYIEND IS SECRETLY GAY (& WHAT TO DO)

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.

Are the prcipl not applible to a scenar volvg homosexual mal beg the same locker room as straight mal? A Gay man is not different than a straight man. So if sexual asslt is a legimate ncern to have of a straight man, then is as legimate a ncern to have of a Gay man.

AS A GAY MAN, I’LL NEVER BE NORMAL

Now, you might say that a straight male n fend himself agast a Gay man.