Eric Bach is an openly gay broadster for the Frericksburg Natnals. He has major league aspiratns, but his path has been much lonelier than he would prefer.
Contents:
- HOW GAY PEOPLE CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS DIFFERENTLY THAN HETEROSEXUALS
- GAY PEOPLE 'AT RISK OF A LONELIER OLD AGE'
- MAKE THE YULETI GAY WH THE NEW LGBTQ CHRISTMAS MOVI
HOW GAY PEOPLE CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS DIFFERENTLY THAN HETEROSEXUALS
WATCH NOW9 The Christmas Setupurty of LifetimeThis classic Christmas movie plot wh gay ma characters feels like sippg a hot a. WATCH NOW11 Make the Yuleti Gayurty of TLAWh lots of wks and nods to s own ches, this mpy holiday romp follows them lots of will regnize.
It gets a b dramatic, but Holiday's portrayal is hont, empathetic, and totally NOW14 Red Lodgeurty of AmazonThis 2013 movie is renamed The Unattaably Perfect Gay Christmas on Amazon Prime, but 's a great holiday watch by any name. However, I am highlightg this fact bee I know is easier to make change when we acknowledge paful 's start by reviewg some of the rearch on gay people.
Amic journals n be credibly borg so let me give you the brief highlights:Rearch shows: Gay men have fewer close iends than straight people or gay women. Gay people are a lot more likely to m suici than straight are we statistilly worse off on the measur of mental health? Like, for example, when we are 10 or 11 years old and velop a csh on our male gym you fally do e out as an adult and fd other gay men, you may notice that that the gay bar scene or the gay datg app experience isn't always so warm, iendly, and acceptg.
GAY PEOPLE 'AT RISK OF A LONELIER OLD AGE'
That's a further recipe for lonels and men do not show up at my office sayg "I feel bad about myself bee I have been margalized as gay person growg up my fay and muny.
Validatg this fairly universal experience of growg up gay is an important first step the healg Path om LonelsSo what do we do about gay adult lonels? There's a lot we n 's the very bt tip to overe gay lonels once you ci you are ready to tackle this challenge:I want to ask you to jo a gay group that meets once per week.
MAKE THE YULETI GAY WH THE NEW LGBTQ CHRISTMAS MOVI
BLUM, MFT, is a licensed psychotherapist and the founr of the Gay Therapy Center, which specializ relatnship and self-teem issu for LGBTQ people. In a culturally nservative muny, where gog to church and buildg a fay were heavily emphasized, Ahn felt his gay inty kept him “om beg able to participate Korean culture.
He learned to embrace beg both Korean and gay, so much so that he directed “Fire Island, ” a groundbreakg queer Asian Amerin rom- released last year. Beg Asian Amerin and LGBTQ+ n feel lonely, wh stutns such as ethnic church often disavowg non-heterosexual relatnships while tradnal LGBTQ+ spac such as gay bars n be unwelg to people of lor. “Fdg plac like GAMeBoi, where beg queer and Asian do -exist … It’s not like a 1, 000-year-old Korean cultural rual, but I uld create a new rual, ” said Ahn, a recent Friday, hundreds packed QT Nightlife’s monthly K-Pop Night at Micky’s, a Wt Hollywood gay club a block or so east om the old GAMeBoi posed for selfi a pk Barbie box wh dis balls hangg overhead.
” (Michael Owen Baker / For The Tim) Even historilly gay neighborhoods like Wt Hollywood or San Francis’s Castro district, Asian Amerins have long been ignored or fetishized, seen as feme and weak. In 2019, then-Wt Hollywood Mayor John Duran argued that he did not appropriately touch a member of the Gay Men’s Chos of Los Angel bee “he’s a skny Korean kid wh pimpl on his cheek. ” Asian Amerin advocy groups cricized Duran’s remark, wh API Equaly-LA potg to the long history of discrimatn agast Asian men gay muni such as Wt Hollywood, whose clubs “ed to require three forms of photo intifitn om anyone they perceived as Asian.