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Contents:

• I WAS MARRIED WH 2 KIDS WHEN I REALIZED I’M GAY
• "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
• THREE INSIGHTS OM PEOPLE WHO REALIZED THEY WERE GAY LATER LIFE
• COMG OUT AS GAY IN YOUR 20S, 30S & 40S

I WAS MARRIED WH 2 KIDS WHEN I REALIZED I’M GAY

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Ned had been gay his entire adult life. How AIDS shattered the silence about gay liv. There’s a price of admissn for g out as gay later life.

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"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

I was nsumed by the p my stomach – the shame of endg my marriage bee I was gay was like luggg a sandbag over my shoulrs and havg a rock my stomach at the same time. I wasn’t sure how to tell my nservative, Geia-born and bred parents that their former pageant queen dghter was endg her marriage bee she is gay. I wasn’t brave enough to actually say the words – the label of beg gay or a lbian was too much for my soul to bear at the time – so I sent her a text msage, “I am not straight.

Democratic printial ndidate Pete Buttigieg – who, like me, is his late 30s and, like me, me out publicly jt a few years ago – put this way: “It’s hard to face the tth that there were tim my life when, if you had shown me exactly what was si me that ma me gay, I would have cut out wh a knife. There was such a big part of me that did not want to be gay. I thk you’d be hard-prsed to fd a gay person over the age of 30 who hasn’t felt this way.

THREE INSIGHTS OM PEOPLE WHO REALIZED THEY WERE GAY LATER LIFE

There’s ternalized homophobia. She began seeg a gay-affirmative therapist so she uld start workg through her feelgs.

How would she even start over the datg world, not knowg the first thg about beg sgle and gay? If a homosexual (or heterosexual) thought has never crossed your md, for example, n be doubly astonishg when — wham!

COMG OUT AS GAY IN YOUR 20S, 30S & 40S

But Diamond and other rearchers have piled numero se studi of gay men who spent years feelg (and actg) fully and fortably homosexual, only then to fall unexpectedly love wh a heterosexual woman. 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.