I'll never fet the precise moment I chose to be gay. It was the endpot a procs of rebelln agast my whe middle-class parents that climaxed |
Contents:
- HOW TO COPE WHEN YOU'RE GAY AND LONELY
- IN DEFENSE OF BEG BORG AND GAY
- WHAT I LEARNED ABOUT MYSELF AFTER YEARS OF FALLG FOR GAY MEN
- AM I GAY?
- I’M SOOO BORED OF BEG GAY
- AM I GAY? QUIZ – 100% RELIABLE TT
HOW TO COPE WHEN YOU'RE GAY AND LONELY
Are you qutng your sexualy? Fd out if you’re gay, straight, bisexual, or asexual. Learn what the terms mean and if they apply to you. * i'm gay and bored *
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.
IN DEFENSE OF BEG BORG AND GAY
* i'm gay and bored *
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.
WHAT I LEARNED ABOUT MYSELF AFTER YEARS OF FALLG FOR 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.
AM I GAY?
I now know there were other kids at my school who were gay, but they didn't e out till much later. About 10 years ago I saw John Waters give a lecture, and he said (and I’m paraphrasg here, bee was a long time ago), “Back when I was young the bt thg about beg gay was that you didn’t have to get married, have kids, or serve the ary. Much has changed 10 years, and gay Amerins have won rights many stat (but not all, so don’t get placent).
I’M SOOO BORED OF BEG GAY
Now the fight is about somethg different: It’s a fight between lettg beg gay fe a person or be jt one more fact about them. Noted gay artist David Hockney recently told the Guardian that too many gay men now are “borg” bee they want to live “nservative” liv.
AM I GAY? QUIZ – 100% RELIABLE TT
But most of what Hockney is sayg has to do wh the worry that the gay inty is slippg away.