Black, Gay And Sred Of Sex : NPR

Contents:

• I'M AAID THAT I'M GAY
• I’M GAY, BUT I’M AAID TO E OUT. WHAT SHOULD I DO?
• YOUNG, GAY AND SRED TO ATH AT SCHOOL
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS OPENLY GAY: I WANT TO LIVE AND NOT BE AAID
• BLACK, GAY AND SRED OF SEX

I'M AAID THAT I'M GAY

14 Ways To Defeat Your Fears of Beg Gay. There are many gay men who say "I'm not part of the scene" -- men who hate gay bars and, prumably, crowds of queer people general. Internalized homophobia -- self-shamg, self-hatred -- leads many gay men, and many queer people general, to recreate their closets long after they're "out" by shunng others, particularly those they nsir "flamboyant.

I’M GAY, BUT I’M AAID TO E OUT. WHAT SHOULD I DO?

" Y, there are some good reasons to rce your participatn gay bars (time, money, health).

YOUNG, GAY AND SRED TO ATH AT SCHOOL

But you mt spend time wh others, whether that means havg a group of gay movie iends or queer gamers or playg on a gay sports team. Go to gay bars, even if they make you unfortable. Fd gay iends.

This parable piece by lbian wrer Sarah Prager go through the lp of great gays who changed the world -- om ventor Alan Turg to Tchaikovsky, the poser, to the Renaissance pater and ventor Leonardo da Vci. AIDS vastated muni of gay men and transgenr women, particularly gay men and trans women of lor. Read the numbers: In four years, more than 5, 596 people the Uned Stat had died of AIDS, many of them gay men and transgenr women.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS OPENLY GAY: I WANT TO LIVE AND NOT BE AAID

But if I hadn't experienced all that adversy, I wouldn't be so furly proud to be gay. Fd a gay elr who's been where you are and r for your well-beg, someone who unrstands you and never pass judgment, someone who lets you make the mistak you need to make.

BLACK, GAY AND SRED OF SEX

Tmp has repeatedly attacked transgenr servicemembers, and gay men are still beg hunted and murred Chechnya.