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i fell in love with my gay friend

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‘I FELL LOVE WH A GAY MAN AND NEARLY BROKE ME’

I uldn’t say was bee he was gay, ” said the 46-year-old. Davidson, om Sydney, Atralia, says she’s not the first straight woman to fall for a gay man. People ask, uldn’t we tell we were fallg love wh a gay man?

” But both refer to the same thg — straight women who have strong, often highly tense and mutually supportive relatnships wh gay men. The days, straight women and gay men who get along would probably jt be lled iends, but “handbags” were often vol and visual supporters of the LGBTQ muny when discrimatn — legal and otherwise — was still rampant.

“So many women have acted as protectors, cheerlears, and supporters of their gay iends, but always the background, ” Davidson says. “Straight alli, and particularly women, are a val part of the fight for gay rights.

‘HE BROKE MY HEART TO A BILLN PIEC’: WHEN A STRAIGHT WOMAN FALLS LOVE WH A GAY MAN

” Her grandmother was a “beard, ” or fake girliend, to gay men she was close to, while her mother helped when the muny was beg vastated by AIDS. “I’d been raised a fay wh lots of gay men , so I should have known better than anyone (not to fall love wh one), ” Davidson says. “A gay man wasn’t a shy unirn I’d never seen before.

I AM GAY AND I'M LOVE WH A STRAIGHT, WHAT N I DO?

“I know a woman who was a relatnship for 17 years before he me out as gay. Most of the time, a gay bt iend might be obliv if his female iend has fallen for him. But some gay men actually enurage , she says.

IN LOVE WH MY BT IEND, BUT HE'S GAY

“The wonrful thg about gay men is they talk to me like I’m a person bee they don’t want to get your pants. “Wh a uple of months he was htg the gay bars. Davidson says straight men uld learn a thg or two om their gay brothers.

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