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i didn't always know i was gay

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WHEN DID YOU KNOW YOU WERE GAY?

When did you realize you were gay?

Homosexuals of Redd, when did you realize you were gay? Then he addrsed the class, stctg each to take out a piece of paper and a pen and wre down the moment when we all realized we were gay.

I had already been asked a ln tim, "When did you know you were gay", but I was thrilled to have someone state the qutn aloud, the ntext of an amic exercise. If I was gay, I wonred if meant that I would be required to cut my hair to a buzzcut like the (first, ostensibly) lbian (I had ever nfirmed as such) my mother had poted out to me at the Ralph Lren outlet a middle-class untry town you might fd somewhere like Vermont; a untry town where you might fd lbians.

"I REALIZED I WAS GAY": MEN WHO CAME OUT LATER IN LIFE ARE SHARG WHAT IT WAS LIKE FOR THEM TO REVEAL THAT TTH AND LIVE AUTHENTILLY

When I found out earlier this month, along wh the rt of the world, that one of my favore actors, Kal Penn, is a fellow gay man and now engaged to his long-time partner, I was so happy that he was openly livg his tth. "I realized I was gay last year, after 36 years durg the lockdown.

WHEN DID YOU KNOW YOU WERE GAY?

After seeg a gay guy I uld see myself , I started to qutn myself more.

I me out as bisexual at 44 after my stepson me out as gay at 11 years old. "I moved to Ireland jt before the referendum that legalized gay marriage. Once the untry around me changed and I started seeg more gays the muny, felt safer, and I felt more fortable to e out.

I'd fantasize about men and watch gay porn.

I ASKED GUYS WHEN THEY FIRST KNEW THEY WERE GAY

Part of me felt rponsible for her ath, as if beg bi or gay and my feelgs of regret somehow ed . I also realized that the label of ‘gay’ ma more sense for me than ‘bi. But when I moved to California and saw more gay people, then I really started to realize .

WHAT IF YOU ONLY THOUGHT YOU WERE GAY?

I gus that's the pot I f the fn of 'gay' rather than bi.

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