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Contents:
- I THOUGHT I WAS GAY BUT NOW I'M QUTNG MY ORIENTATN
- I’VE INTIFIED AS GAY FOR YEARS. NOT ANYMORE.
- WHAT IF YOU ONLY THOUGHT YOU WERE GAY?
- AM I GAY?
- HOW DO I KNOW IF I AM GAY? SIGNS YOU ARE GAY
I THOUGHT I WAS GAY BUT NOW I'M QUTNG MY ORIENTATN
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 thought i was gay but now *
Jt as if you were qutng your orientatn and thkg you might be gay, I n offer some background basics and thgs to thk about.
However, along the l of sexualy beg fluid, I feel that while there are certaly people who are jt attracted to people of the same genr or a different genr (or asexual), most people fall somewhere on a broad spectm between gay and straight (and beyond! Unfortunately, more often than not, 's not easy beg gay.
I’VE INTIFIED AS GAY FOR YEARS. NOT ANYMORE.
Not bee beg gay self is hard, but bee of societal prsure and judgement. As you said yourself, beg gay is, or has bee, a major part of your inty. You're out and proud and feelg at home your lol and the greater gay muny.
Likewise, we don't want or need people who re about but do not re for our sexual orientatn, such as a well-tentned parent, to tell they are relieved that we, fact, not gay. Our two ma articl on this very topic, The Be Be: A Homosexualy and Bisexualy Primer and Bi the Dozen: A Bisexualy Quiz addrs this que extensively.
WHAT IF YOU ONLY THOUGHT YOU WERE GAY?
Speakg of articl, I'd also suggt readg The Makgs of a Homo on a young guy intifyg as gay (I realize you are beyond this step your personal journey, but you still might fd tertg) and well as Makg Sense of Sexual Media.
Gay, straight, bi or beyond, the articl Supermol: Creatg & Nurturg Your Own Bt Relatnship Mols and Pothol & Dead Ends: Relatnship Roadblocks to Look Out For brg up important relatnship nsiratns. As I allud to a b the first part of my rponse, when you're queer, n be hard to claim that inty, form that muny and more; beg gay be a huge part of who you are. The gay muny tends to be close kn, but jt bee you're not datg a guy don't mean you have to be ostracized om !
In fact, when you thk about , the gay muny tends to be a very open and acceptg group. 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.
HOW DO I KNOW IF I AM GAY? SIGNS YOU ARE GAY
But the last year or two, I’ve started to rethk my relatnship to the label “gay.