Ask Queer Abby: How Do You Know If You're Gay? - Queer Abby

Contents:

• DEAR ABBY: IF MY HBAND IS WATCHG GAY PORN DO MEAN HE’S TO MEN?
• FROM THE ARCHIV“LEGENDS OF TOMORROW” EPISO 507 REP: A THOAND TIM, GOODNIGHTAM/PM: A LIBRA RISG AND THEIR QUICK SUBTLE STUNT FOR A HOLIGAY HANGTHE 10 BT TRANS WOMEN IN COMICSLATT COMMENTS
• ASK QUEER ABBY: HOW DO YOU KNOW IF YOU’RE GAY?
• HOW TO DISCREETLY FD OUT IF SOMEONE YOU KNOW IS GAY
• DEAR ABBY: FIANCE’S SHOCKG ATTU TOWARD GAY PEOPLE NEEDS TO BE ADDRSED
• THE ABBEY IS FOR SALE; WT HOLLYWOOD GAY CLUB SEEKS NEW OWNER
• WT HOLLYWOOD’S HISTORIC GAY NIGHTCLUB THE ABBEY IS UP FOR SALE
• ‘IT’S OK TO BE GAY,’ DEAR ABBY SAYS

DEAR ABBY: IF MY HBAND IS WATCHG GAY PORN DO MEAN HE’S TO MEN?

On the podst “We Can Do Hard Thgs wh Glennon Doyle, ” Abby Wambach talked about her experience wh relign and beg gay. ”Wambach rells beg a teenager and tellg her iend om church that she was gay.

FROM THE ARCHIV“LEGENDS OF TOMORROW” EPISO 507 REP: A THOAND TIM, GOODNIGHTAM/PM: A LIBRA RISG AND THEIR QUICK SUBTLE STUNT FOR A HOLIGAY HANGTHE 10 BT TRANS WOMEN IN COMICSLATT COMMENTS

“If you are part of an anizatn — a fay, a nversatn, a iend, a church that is lettg homophobia live sidly — you have three choic, ” Doyle said. I'm a young gay man who played TLOU 2013 as a teenager. It stck me, this portrayal of a ep, lifelong iendship between two gay women navigatg all the treacheri of life the 1950s, si-by-si.

In each other, they see reflected back what they’re both attemptg to perform, and perhaps hi, their own liv as gay women.

ASK QUEER ABBY: HOW DO YOU KNOW IF YOU’RE GAY?

And the fact that this iendship exists between two gay women a mastream Hollywood movie, and remas largely unmarred by drama or a romantic entanglement, is pretty damn special too. LGBTQ+ them are not somethg entirely new to The Last of Us anchise, as the first stallment of the seri also showsed a gay NPC and then a very graceful lbian kiss the Left Behd DLC. Bill is gay and had a relatnship wh a man lled Frank, who is later found ad the game, much to Bill's dismay.

HOW TO DISCREETLY FD OUT IF SOMEONE YOU KNOW IS GAY

Unlike Da, Bill tri to hi his homosexualy and ially only refers to Frank as someone he had red for. The more time I spend the gay culture the more I fall love wh and fd myself wishg I was a part of too. Am I gay?

DEAR ABBY: FIANCE’S SHOCKG ATTU TOWARD GAY PEOPLE NEEDS TO BE ADDRSED

Click Your Heels Three Tim and Thk Gay Thoughts. Hey Beth, I nsulted my Magic 8 ball and says “All signs pot to gay.

When one of my therapists said to me, as “You’re gay. Me beg gay is a big chunky ol' so-igg-what. I’m gay bee I am gay.

You uld jt let yourself be gay or queer or bisexual or a lbian or however you thk you may intify (and the label is also kd of a So What at the end of the day). If you make a mistake and fd that perhaps you’re not as gay as maybe the Magic 8 ball says you were, so what?

THE ABBEY IS FOR SALE; WT HOLLYWOOD GAY CLUB SEEKS NEW OWNER

For me, the answer was ternalized homophobia.

WT HOLLYWOOD’S HISTORIC GAY NIGHTCLUB THE ABBEY IS UP FOR SALE

I would never have admted that a shred of homophobia existed wh me at any pot my life. Growg up, I knew my mom was iends wh a gay uple that she worked wh.

Later, my own life, I met many other gay and lbian folx and veloped great iendships wh them.

But when me to actually admtg I was gay, that was a big no-no for me for s. They uld be gay. Internalized homophobia is not an unmon thg.

‘IT’S OK TO BE GAY,’ DEAR ABBY SAYS

I remember listeng to the podst We Can Do Hard Thgs wh Glennon Doyle and Abby Wambach and hearg Abby discs her own feelgs of ternalized homophobia. If Abby, this superhuman and super lbian, uld have ternalized the feelgs then we uld ALL have ternalized homophobia to work through.