Could gay guys be the ultimate wg men for their straight, male iends?
Contents:
- MEETG YOUR FIRST GAY FRIEND
- HOW TO MAKE GAY FRIENDS: AN LBGT FRIENDSHIP GUI
- HOW TO TELL IF YOUR GUY FRIEND IS GAY
MEETG YOUR FIRST GAY FRIEND
* that gay friend *
It's no secret that growg up gay n be a lonely experience. At tim, many gay men feel as though they're the only on experiencg certa thoughts and feelgs, on that society still often ems abnormal.
So when a gay man first bonds wh someone else who intifi as gay or queer, 's evably a total lightng bolt moment. I'm no longer close wh my first gay iend, Jam, bee we're very different people now. But I still remember clumsily g out to him after a Le Tigre ncert and him sayg, "I thk I'm gay, too.
HOW TO MAKE GAY FRIENDS: AN LBGT FRIENDSHIP GUI
" He was hot—I thk everyone thought so—but I didn't thk he was gay. Then we started chattg and he said "I'm gay" the most offhand way. He didn't still a sense of ternalized homophobia me, which was important bee I was a mpy gay guy who'd always been teased for beg mpy.
" He gave me the permissn to be myself when I didn't even know who that, on DeanI grew up a small nservative town and didn't know anyone gay at school, so I met my first gay iends through social media. So how do you make gay iends?
In some of my most sperate hours for gay bondg, I’ve attend LGBTQ+-themed therapy groups my area. Outsi of LGBTQ+-specific meetups, a great way to fd LGBT iendships is actually by attendg meetups that gay people typilly like. For a long time, iendships between gay men and straight men – what some now ll “bromosexual” iendships – were unmon.
HOW TO TELL IF YOUR GUY FRIEND IS GAY
Homophobia was likely one reason; another was that straight men probably assumed they didn’t have much mon wh gay men. Specifilly, we’re terted lookg at the reasons gay men and straight men bee iends (or rema iends after the gay iend out).
We currently have a survey vtigatn unrway that explor some of the posive out of “bromosexual” iendships, cludg our theory that gay men and straight men n be optimal wg men for one another. Friendships between gay and straight men have always existed. Many straight men hated to beiend gay men, fearg harassment, rejectn om their straight iends or beg lled gay.