Miss Manners: Nosy women at retirement muny ask rint ‘are you gay?’ durg dner

Contents:

• I'M GAY, & I QU, SAYS NJ GOV.
• 【梗百科】I'M GAY 是啥梗？
• LETTERS TO THE EDOR: I’M GAY AND DON’T WANT TO PATRONIZE BIGOTS. THANKS, SUPREME COURT
• MISS MANNERS: NOSY WOMEN AT RETIREMENT MUNY ASK RINT ‘ARE YOU GAY?’ DURG DNER

I'M GAY, & I QU, SAYS NJ GOV.

"My tth is that I am a gay Amerin, " he said.

【梗百科】I'M GAY 是啥梗？

"It mak ltle difference that as ernor I am gay, " he said, addg that stayg office and keepg the affair and his sexual orientatn secret would leave the ernor's office "vulnerable to mors, false allegatns and threats of disclosure. A source told The Associated Prs that was Wednday night when bet members and admistratn officials first learned of an alleged had been circulatg for several years that McGreevey was gay, reachg the level of open hts on New Jersey talk rad an announcement that at tim was trospective, McGreevey referred to the stggl he has experienced wh his sexualy sce childhood.

If you didn’t know, you’ve probably gused as much—most straight people don’t re this much about makg the Church a better place for gay people. In 6th gra, I realized I was gay*, and I swore I would never let anyone know who I really was. I grew up hearg that beg gay was bad, dirty, and disgtg.

LETTERS TO THE EDOR: I’M GAY AND DON’T WANT TO PATRONIZE BIGOTS. THANKS, SUPREME COURT

When a gay person me on TV or was seen public, people mented how gross gay marriage was and how godls gay people were. If the topic ever me up church, was a simple statement that God was agast homosexualy.

Still gay. Time and time aga I begged God to heal me if beg gay wasn’t how I was supposed to be, and time and time aga change didn’t seem to be His will. I remember watchg the show Next on MTV the first time a gay man was the nttant.

” I remember readg any book for school where two guys had a close iendship—A Separate Peace, The Cholate Wars, The Chosen—wantg for them to be gay and to lose myself the story. In middle school I played leadg rol both of our theater productns, but high school I quickly realized that the same people the theater club where also our Gay-Straight Alliance. I uld not risk anyone spectg that I was gay.

MISS MANNERS: NOSY WOMEN AT RETIREMENT MUNY ASK RINT ‘ARE YOU GAY?’ DURG DNER

Gay marriage was a particularly ntent topic durg the 2008 electn, so naturally, our ernment class played out the same divisive nversatns found on CNN.

Untentnally fulfillg stereotyp, I was one of the most arnt opponents of gay marriage—thkg that perhaps that would throw people off my trail. Then she said wh omniscience, “I bet you’re secretly gay, and one day you’re gog to e out.

You’re jt so homophobic bee you don’t want anyone to know who you are. I am most ashamed of the moments where my fear of beg outed and disgt of my homosexualy turned to homophobia that hurt others. Derek was the only openly gay guy our school and he was on the team.