Contents:
- ‘I FELL LOVE WH A GAY MAN AND NEARLY BROKE ME’
- ‘HE BROKE MY HEART TO A BILLN PIEC’: WHEN A STRAIGHT WOMAN FALLS LOVE WH A GAY MAN
- I AM GAY AND I'M LOVE WH A STRAIGHT, WHAT N I DO?
- IN LOVE WH MY BT IEND, BUT HE'S GAY
‘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.
‘HE BROKE MY HEART TO A BILLN PIEC’: WHEN A STRAIGHT WOMAN FALLS LOVE WH A GAY MAN
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.
I AM GAY AND I'M LOVE WH A STRAIGHT, WHAT N I DO?
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.
” 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.
IN LOVE WH MY BT IEND, BUT HE'S GAY
“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.
“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. “I kd of knew (he was gay) and I kd of didn’t.