Help! I’m not gay, but I don’t like the thgs that other guys my age like.

PEOPLE THK I'M GAY... BUT I'M NOT

Are you qutng your sexualy? Fd out if you’re gay, straight, bisexual, or asexual. Learn what the terms mean and if they apply to you. * i think i m gay but im not *

Gay - While this adjective has historilly scribed men who are attracted to other men, the term now is ed to refer to anyone who experienc romantic, emotnal, or physil attractn to people of the same genr. Sce genr inty and sexual orientatn are separate, transgenr people n intify as straight, gay, lbian, bisexual, etc. Bulli teased me for beg gay when I was younger, but when a six-year-old boy lls another six-year-old boy gay, he means “weird” or “gross, ” not “has sex wh men.

AM I GAY?

Kids are not gay or straight, they’re jt kids. I wasn’t gay or straight. Why, then, do adults who knew me as a child sist that I was gay all along?

I felt prsured to pick a label and stick wh , and for a long time “gay” worked bee I didn’t thk about much.

But the last year or two, I’ve started to rethk my relatnship to the label “gay. I hooked up wh trans and nonbary people and stopped scribg myself as gay, preferrg to e the more clive tchall “queer.

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

Often when I tell some people that I’m distancg myself om gay, they immediately suggt I intify as bisexual, or pansexual. I need somethg that means “mostly gay but not fully mted and open to other possibili, ” but, alas, such a niche label has yet to be imaged.

MY PARENTS THK I'M GAY BUT I'M NOT

When I was six, the boys who teased me labelled me as gay.

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

The adults my life labelled me as gay. And for a while after g out, “gay” worked fe.

I am gay but have never admted this to anyone. My iends probably spect I am gay, but we have never discsed .