Gay high schooler says he's 'beg silenced' by Florida's LGBTQ law

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• IT WAS A SIMPLE TEAM PHOTO, BUT MEANT THE WORLD TO GAY HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL PLAYER
• GAY HIGH SCHOOLER SAYS HE'S 'BEG SILENCED' BY FLORIDA'S LGBTQ LAW
• SO-LLED 'DON'T SAY GAY' L EXPAND THROUGH 12TH GRA FLORIDA
• WHY BEG GAY HIGH SCHOOL STILL KDA SUCKS
• FLORIDA BOARD OF EDUTN EXPANDS ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ CLASSROOM BAN TO ALL GRAS
• I WAS OPENLY GAY ON MY HIGH SCHOOL TEAM AND HEARD SLURS ALL THE TIME
• GAY MAN LLS OUT HIS HIGH SCHOOL BULLY FOR G OUT AS BISEXUAL AND ’S DIVID OPN

IT WAS A SIMPLE TEAM PHOTO, BUT MEANT THE WORLD TO GAY HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL PLAYER

[Ser] High schoolers of Redd, how are openly gay stunts treated?

When I was high school, gay marriage was legal only one state, and spe livg a pretty liberal state, gay stunts were often teased and sometim threatened. Go to gay. I'm jt gog to perhaps rant about my suatn relatn wh beg gay Highschool.

GAY HIGH SCHOOLER SAYS HE'S 'BEG SILENCED' BY FLORIDA'S LGBTQ LAW

I am so unbelievably trated wh the lack of reprentatn gay people get the media and if there is any reprentatn, 's jt straight-directed movi that appeal to straight people and their fantasis of fetishisg gay guys or beiendg that one gay guy that perpetuat unrealistic stereotyp such as all gay guys are feme and loud. Arguably, 'Love, Simon' did 's job marketg towards teenagers, but really, not every gay guy liv an acceptg rich fay where they n act mascule and get away wh and to add on, if any guy were to be bullied purely for beg gay at my Highschool, the people who bullied them would not face any nsequenc, stead people would praise the bulli for 'standg up' to the gay people. The lack of reprentatn is drivg me crazy, I want to read well-wrten books about romance (between two gay teenagers), but I'm gog back to readg unrveloped stori on Wattpad wrten by 13 year old straight girls bee the speratn seeps and I no longer have standards.

Serulsy, beg gay sucks! If any adult out there that recently emerged om Highschool to adulthood, do life for a gay person get better? How accepted was beg gay at your high school?

LGBT is still a popular term ed to discs genr and sexual mori, but all GSRM are wele beyond lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people who nsent to participate a safe space. As the only out young gay kid at my school, I took the advancement of my sexual experienc to my own hands and I did what we all do: I bought a fake ID and h the gay clubs.

SO-LLED 'DON'T SAY GAY' L EXPAND THROUGH 12TH GRA FLORIDA

While I knew wouldn’t be like a gay llege eroti I’d read on (gay non, really), I rather naively wasn’t expectg the fall out.

I realize I fell to that old gay adage of placg my feelgs on a person who, for whatever reason, was never gog to vt them back me. Worst of all, though, the shame attached to the memori of those first tim marred how I would approach sex for years.It was listeng to Years & Years’ new song “Sanctify,” and seeg the band’s out gay sger Olly Alexanr talk about how the song was spired his sexual trysts wh straight men, that I realized that the feelgs are way more mon than people let on. Sure, I know all about gay guys havg sex wh straight guys, but felt reassurg to see him scribe the “sat and sner role” he embodied durg those experienc, and to hear the uncertaty and melancholy weaved to the song.More than anythg though, was the repeated lyril mantra of “I won’t be ashamed.” Bee as queer people, we’re buried lifetime’s worth of shame so vivid and searg that oftentim ’s cripplg.

WHY BEG GAY HIGH SCHOOL STILL KDA SUCKS

It was a simple team photo, but meant the world to gay high school football player. 15-year-old sophomore Jake Strer serly thought of qutg his Illois football team after beg outed, but he cid to embrace who he was and ma all the difference.

Though I am on the team, ’s still a b awkward when you are a 15-year-old gay guy. There is absolutely a “gay by associatn” phobia high school and ’s a big unspoken thg. I get and unrstand that wh matury the realizatn that gay isn’t ntag.

FLORIDA BOARD OF EDUTN EXPANDS ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ CLASSROOM BAN TO ALL GRAS

I had never had an actual verbal nversatn wh any of my teammat about me beg gay. I am not the gay guy — I’m jt a football player. Their embrace of me was somethg I never expected after a year of anxiety and stggle of g to terms wh beg gay.

I started hearg that people outsi of the team heard I was gay.

It was someone I had tsted wh the rmatn that I was gay and knew I was not out. Two weeks after I me out to my parents, right after my football season had end, I went on Snapchat and posted the gay flag emoji on my story.

I WAS OPENLY GAY ON MY HIGH SCHOOL TEAM AND HEARD SLURS ALL THE TIME

I then said, “If you don’t get , I’m gay.

GAY MAN LLS OUT HIS HIGH SCHOOL BULLY FOR G OUT AS BISEXUAL AND ’S DIVID OPN

I was bldsid when some kid who I really didn’t know my last perd class kept g LGBTQ slurs while knowg I was gay. I didn’t know how to handle beg outed, how to handle g out to my fay or people at my school, and I fely didn’t know how to handle gay bashg. I was sayg was OK to drive someone om a sport bee they are gay.

I was fearg the “gay by associatn” that is a livg breathg thg for teens, pecially guys. I am proud to say I am gay. Jake Strer, 15, is a sophomore at Metea Valley High School Aurora, Illois, and an offensive and fensive leman on his high school football team.