What If You Only Thought You Were Gay? | GQ

Contents:

• I LIKE GUYS BUT I DON’T WANT TO BE GAY. HOW DO I STOP BEG GAY?
• HOW DO I KNOW I’M NOT REALLY GAY/STRAIGHT?
• KEV MAXEN, JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH, OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
• SO PEOPLE THK I'M GAY...
• WHAT IF YOU ONLY THOUGHT YOU WERE GAY?
• I’M MALE AND I AM AAID THAT I MIGHT BE GAY

I LIKE GUYS BUT I DON’T WANT TO BE GAY. HOW DO I STOP BEG GAY?

I'm 24 and don't thk I'm gay anymore. Long story short, I was nvced that I was gay all throughout high school and llege.

Well, I've been openly gay so long that would look really weird to my fay and iends if I showed up wh a girliend sudnly. Also, how would I expla to her that I thought I was gay for ten years?

I even have a boyiend right now, who I would ll one of my bt iends, though at least he's aware that I thk I might not be pletely gay. I am gay but have never admted this to anyone. My iends probably spect I am gay, but we have never discsed .

HOW DO I KNOW I’M NOT REALLY GAY/STRAIGHT?

Your iends, who might already spect that you’re gay, will get to know you on a eper level and likely feel much closer to you. I like guys but I don’t want to be gay.

KEV MAXEN, JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH, OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU

How do I stop beg gay? You don’t need to be certa you are gay before talkg to someone or attendg an LGBTQ+ meetg.

I am a gay male. I have been out nearly 7 years now (age 16, sophomore year of HS).

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY

That week I told my iends and fay I was gay. It is very homogeneo/ hetero-normative and beg a tholic stutn is not the easit environment for queer stunts. In orr to have doubts about one’s sexual inty, a sufferer need not ever have had a homo- or heterosexual experience, or any type of sexual experience at all.

If the sufferer is heterosexual, then the thought may be that they are homosexual. If on the other hand they happen to be homosexual they may obss about the possibily that they might really be straight.

SO PEOPLE THK I'M GAY...

” Some people’s doubts are further plited by havg such experienc as hearg other people talkg or lookg their directn and thkg that the people mt be analyzg their behavr or appearance and talkg about them – discsg how they mt be gay (or straight). For those wh thoughts of beg homosexual, part of the distrs mt surely be social orig. Let’s face , gay people have always been an opprsed mory wh our culture, and to sudnly thk of beg this posn, and to be stigmatized this way, n be ighteng.

WHAT IF YOU ONLY THOUGHT YOU WERE GAY?

I have sometim wonred if those who experience the most distrs om such thoughts as the do so bee they were raised wh more strongly homophobic or anti-gay attus to beg wh, or if is simply bee one’s sexualy n be such a basic doubt. Lookg at attractive men or women, or pictur of them, or readg sexually oriented lerature or pornography (hetero- or homosexual), to see if they are sexually excg. Observg themselv for evince of “lookg, ” talkg, walkg, drsg, or gturg like someone who is eher gay or straight.

I’M MALE AND I AM AAID THAT I MIGHT BE GAY

Compulsively reviewg and analyzg past teractns wh other men or women to see if they have acted like a gay or straight person.