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PHYSIL, BEHAVRAL, AND PSYCHOLOGIL TRAS OF GAY MEN INTIFYG AS BEARS
Sophomore year, Taylor met Bear—the good-natured, boyish jokter of the group—through “jazz stuff we were both playg, ” says Taylor. Droste, who is gay, has dark Cary Grant hair, broad shoulrs, and a geeky suavens—he n wear knee-length cutoff shorts whout lookg like an idt. In one post, he tailed how to affect a straight persona while phone bankg red stat: "I had to practice a few tim to shake off the gay, but tst, wh a ltle work, we n all pass, " he wrote.
"Y, I was gay married, and y, I got gay divorced, " he says. "I remember when we ed to sell our own merch, teens would e up to me shakg and say, 'You ma me feel better about beg gay, ' " Droste rells. "Especially the die world, they felt there were no gay people.
He had his first gay experience at 21 Seattle wh a guy he met through his 's band Pk Marti. "He prented himself as a person who was fortable wh who he was and hont about , and that ronated wh how I felt, " Batmanglij says over still receiv emails and texts om gay teens across the untry; he even reced a therapist iend to help one fan pe om a toxic home environment. "It's not like, the grand scheme, that many people the gay world listen to .