"Navigatg my own queerns early on whout gay iends was a mostly futile effort" wr GQ ntributor Rob LeDonne.
Contents:
- WHO ARE YOU THE “GAY IEND GROUP”?
- WHO ARE YOU THE GAY IEND GROUP? ️
- WHO ARE YOU IN THE GAY FRIEND GROUP?
- HOW TO MAKE GAY FRIENDS: AN LBGT FRIENDSHIP GUI
- I THOUGHT I DIDN'T NEED GAY FRIENDS; I WAS WRONG
WHO ARE YOU THE “GAY IEND GROUP”?
heyyyy :] this is a quiz to see who u r the stereotypil “gay iend group”. i mean i did kda base off my own iends so yeah…. anyway i hope u like and pls don’t be offend by ur rult * who are you in the gay friend group *
Always rri around ntendo y but i hi pletely listeng to sad/rock/rap mic would u say u act gay (loud, pots out hot ppl, generally exced over lgbtq+ stuff) yeah but no one realis i’m not straight the emo girl wh short hair ig i’m kda *strange* and i might have prsn or smth else but i’m mostly crazyyy i act rly happy (i probably have adhd) but sometim i cry for no reason several diagnosed/spected mental health issu sad sometim but addicted to smth alright, that’s probably the end. 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.
WHO ARE YOU THE GAY IEND GROUP? ️
Random quiz, mostly based off of the gays my iend group but I have noticed some siari between other gay groups. Not accurate btw * who are you in the gay friend group *
Raise your glass of weak vodka soda garnished wh 1/18th of a lime to the ever-so-important gay iend group. ) To be ank, havg a gay iend group is as important to queer life as iced ffee ’s a sad but te fact that growg up gay n be an isolatg experience.
) On top of that, take to acunt the hurdl of gay culture: beg the closet, g out, homophobia, ternalized homophobia, and velopg ep, unrequed csh on straight acquatanc om high school you barely spoke to, cludg that guy who was two years olr than you wh the dirty brown hair and always wore tank tops durg the summer and uld have moled and now is probably married wh three kids and I’m pretty sure his name was Ian.
Somewhere along this super gay marathon (and I’m reag om sertg a pole metaphor here, send ngratulatns at your nvenience), you slowly accumulate some like-md iends beyond the people you’re hookg up wh or datg, and beg to realize there are ed others who have wad through the same torrent of emotns and experienc you’ve enuntered.
WHO ARE YOU IN THE GAY FRIEND GROUP?
Prevly feelg like the sole gay the universe, like Sigourney Weaver walkg the halls of Nostromo at the end of Alien soaked sweat, you’ve fally found other telligent queer life. For the first time you realize there are others who unrstand what the heck beg gay is all about.
HOW TO MAKE GAY FRIENDS: AN LBGT FRIENDSHIP GUI
)Wh gay iends, you sudnly have others to miserate wh about eper tails that no straight iend, while passnate, uld ever be properly equipped to unrstand.
)But more important than tradg war stori, a group of gay iends is there for you when you need them day-to-day.
), your gay iends are there to get dnk wh on a Saturday night, followed by group msagg each other on Sunday morng that GIF of Kim Kardashian slidg unr bedvers.
I THOUGHT I DIDN'T NEED GAY FRIENDS; I WAS WRONG
A member of your gay iend group will also happily be there to take a picture of you for your Instagram, and will be jt as happy to take the same picture 30 more tim wh only slightly different angl bee turns out ’s you who’s the importance of cultivatg gay iendships went over my head durg my personal evolutn, as I ially unrstood my own sexualy as much as I unrstood 11th gra math. And like tryg to figure out the Pythagorean Theorem g a toaster oven stead of a lculator, navigatg my own queerns early on whout gay iends was a mostly futile effort.
In fact, I never really grasped why a gay muny even existed my early days. I had my own straight iends, pl gay culture seemed like somethg happeng on another pla.