I'm as gay as a daffodil, my ar. --Freddie Mercury
Contents:
- I'M AS GAY AS A DAFFODIL
- GAY AS A DAFFODIL, MY AR!
- "I'M AS GAY AS A DAFFODIL, MY AR!"
- GAY AS A DAFFODIL
I'M AS GAY AS A DAFFODIL
eddie mercury: i am as gay as a daffodil, my ar. * i am as gay as a daffodil my dear *
I enrolled for two semters and then stopped when I joed Ju Volunteers Philipp where I was assigned as Area Health Coordator at the Our Lady of Peace Missn Inc., Aeta Rettlement Area, S Gala, Barangay Angway-Satihan, Subic, Zambal.
I’m gay. A b of my back story: I was raised a very nservative, fundamentalist (Evangelil) Christian fay and relig muny where, among the joys and trmas of childhood and adolcence and alongsi the ways which I was posively nurtured and ted, I received untls msag that ALL people were heterosexual and that homosexualy (as a sexual orientatn, I gus) was not real but was the ceptn of immoral and atheist scientists. I also received untls msag that homosexualy (as a set of sexual behavrs, I gus) was shameful, unnatural, crimal, disgtg, dangero, and wrong–across the board regardls of age, nsent, or relatnal ntext—and that people who mted homosexual acts and never stopped or repented of them would be nmned to dive and eternal damnatn.
GAY AS A DAFFODIL, MY AR!
First thgs first: This post gets a soundtrack, and only Diana Ross uld provi the perfect song for . Yup! I'm g out. I'm gay. And the lyrics of Diana Ross: The time has e for me To break out of this shell I have to shout That I am g out... I've got… * i am as gay as a daffodil my dear *
As a youth, I stggled to rencile the ntradictory statements I enuntered: homosexualy wasn’t real, but at the same time homosexualy was a VERY real danger, a danger so real that homosexual people (who weren’t really homosexual at all) served unique social, relig, and legal stigma, taboo, and discrimatn.
I quickly began to e the word gay to scribe this aspect of myself and of my experience.
"I'M AS GAY AS A DAFFODIL, MY AR!"
quot and saygs of Freddie Mercury: I'm as gay as a daffodil, my ar! * i am as gay as a daffodil my dear *
“I’m gay” is now an important part of how I intify and a way for me to give words to how I’ve experienced the velopment, primacy, and permanence of my sexual attractn to men as well as unique ways which I’ve equently felt a mismatch between my ner personaly and the genr rol and social expectatns I have enuntered around me.
“I’m gay” only scratch the surface as to who I am as a unique dividual, but stands as a meangful term I e as I relate to myself and to people around me. I’m as gay as a daffodil, my ar.