Internatnal OCD Foundatn | How Do I Know I’m Not Really Gay/Straight?

Contents:

• I LIKE GUYS BUT I DON’T WANT TO BE GAY. HOW DO I STOP BEG GAY?
• ASK POLLY: WHY DO PEOPLE ALWAYS THK I’M GAY?
• LETTERS TO THE EDOR: I’M GAY AND DON’T WANT TO PATRONIZE BIGOTS. THANKS, SUPREME COURT
• HOW DO I KNOW I’M NOT REALLY GAY/STRAIGHT?
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
• AM I GAY?
• I’VE INTIFIED AS GAY FOR YEARS. NOT ANYMORE.
• HOW TO KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY

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

I thk I might be gay but I don't want to be.

I like guys but I don’t want to be gay.

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.

ASK POLLY: WHY DO PEOPLE ALWAYS THK I’M GAY?

I have been out nearly 7 years now (age 16, sophomore year of HS). 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. I don’t want to be gay, but ’s not due to discrimatn towards me.

LETTERS TO THE EDOR: I’M GAY AND DON’T WANT TO PATRONIZE BIGOTS. THANKS, SUPREME COURT

I don’t want to be gay. However, 90% of the time people fd out that I am gay, I’m treated different than what a normal person would be.

I’ve been lled “urageo” and “amazg” for beg openly gay while at the same place my straight peers are actively beg discrimated agast due to them beg normal the ey of society.

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

The people who treat me as anyone else while knowg I’m gay are the people I like the most. ”Dear Polly, I fally garnered the urage to wre to you about my particular problem, and I hope you n shed some of your wisdom on the sce the 6th gra, people have been askg me if I’m gay.

Back then, the other kids thought any person who was any b different om them was gay, and attached a bad meang to the word. I found a great girl sophomore year and we dated up until senr year, but the askg still ntued, some of which was g om my clost high school, I tried as hard as I uld to rid myself of the label people had given me. It also didn’t really help my se that my bt iend me out that he was gay senr year.

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

However, people I had barely e to ntact wh began walkg up to me and askg if I was gay.

AM I GAY?

And if nothg, am I really gay? Some of the women are hopg you’ll be the gay nfidant of their dreams, or maybe they want to be the one who gracefully hers you out of the closet. (Intertgly, if you’re a women, the same behavrs will make people thk you’re gay.

You have to five yourself for not livg up to your ternal fantasy of what you “should” ask, “If there’s nothg I n do to nvce people I’m not gay, then am I really gay?

You uld rent When I Knew, the documentary where gay men and women expla how they figured out they were or no duck, somethg feels unsettled to you about your inty right now. And sce jog the fandoms I’ve been exposed to some very explic smut, het and gay. ) It’s rarer than beg gay or trans, so I feel sort of alienated and like I’d be makg a fs over nothg.

I’VE INTIFIED AS GAY FOR YEARS. NOT ANYMORE.

But to actually be lockg ey wh Ellen and hold her, shakg hands as she said, "I'm gay, " on natnal televisn and for the first time, as she has shared outloud that way publicly, was such a profoundly extraordary and timate gift to that moment that I will forever be grateful for.

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.

HOW TO KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY

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