I'm 43 – but I'm ma to feel like a dosr by younger gay men | Metro News

Contents:

• I’M GAY, BUT RELIG…
• I LIKE GUYS BUT I DON’T WANT TO BE GAY. HOW DO I STOP BEG GAY?
• I’M 43 – BUT I’M MA TO FEEL LIKE A DOSR BY YOUNGER GAY MEN
• 【梗百科】I'M GAY 是啥梗？
• LETTERS TO THE EDOR: I’M GAY AND DON’T WANT TO PATRONIZE BIGOTS. THANKS, SUPREME COURT
• IM GAY BACKGROUND
• THK I’M GAY BUT NOT SURE SEND HELP
• DO GOD STILL LOVE ME IF I’M GAY?
• IM TOO GAY WALL ART

I’M GAY, BUT RELIG…

I really don’t want to stop practicg, but relign says i n’t be gay and so I’m always left a space where i feel like I need to change/ stop beg beg gay orr to live religly bee i genuely am not at peace wh dog both at the same time.

I don’t know if i n acknowledge that I’m gay, make full peace wh ( which i have accepted) but Live a heterosexual life… i don’t thk I’m Bi and i don’t know if ’ll work but i jt thk i would be able to… however i feel like I’d be happier a gay relatnship ( negatg the hate the society will throw at ) My other issue is, I like guys and everythg but I really am not terted gay sex when , i jt lose tert/ my aroal is not hard enough or i feel like i n’t/ don’t want to do . I feel like ill also get help wh this, I’m 20, the closet but all my iends & one of my siblgs (out of 6) know I’m gay, e i me out and she supported me and advised me to embrace … i don’t know if the others know and are nial but they always talk about meetg gay people at work and then share somethg homophobic, one of my brothers thk s a trend, and how he always wonrs if ’ll affect me he said ” most doctors turn out gay, i don’t know what will happen to you after medschool”, i tried explag directly how ’s natural but he kept rejectg , clearly homophobic the day i posted that I’m fally gog to be my self, one of my sisters shed to my DMs askg what meant, etc panic and i uld tell she was fear that i might e out. I like guys but I don’t want to be gay.

I LIKE GUYS BUT I DON’T WANT TO BE GAY. HOW DO I STOP BEG 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. 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’M 43 – BUT I’M MA TO FEEL LIKE A DOSR BY YOUNGER GAY MEN

If you didn’t know, you’ve probably gused as much—most straight people don’t re this much about makg the Church a better place for gay people. In 6th gra, I realized I was gay*, and I swore I would never let anyone know who I really was.

【梗百科】I'M GAY 是啥梗？

I grew up hearg that beg gay was bad, dirty, and disgtg. When a gay person me on TV or was seen public, people mented how gross gay marriage was and how godls gay people were.

If the topic ever me up church, was a simple statement that God was agast homosexualy. Still gay. Time and time aga I begged God to heal me if beg gay wasn’t how I was supposed to be, and time and time aga change didn’t seem to be His will.

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

I remember watchg the show Next on MTV the first time a gay man was the nttant.

” I remember readg any book for school where two guys had a close iendship—A Separate Peace, The Cholate Wars, The Chosen—wantg for them to be gay and to lose myself the story. In middle school I played leadg rol both of our theater productns, but high school I quickly realized that the same people the theater club where also our Gay-Straight Alliance. I uld not risk anyone spectg that I was gay.

Gay marriage was a particularly ntent topic durg the 2008 electn, so naturally, our ernment class played out the same divisive nversatns found on CNN.

IM GAY BACKGROUND

Untentnally fulfillg stereotyp, I was one of the most arnt opponents of gay marriage—thkg that perhaps that would throw people off my trail. Then she said wh omniscience, “I bet you’re secretly gay, and one day you’re gog to e out. You’re jt so homophobic bee you don’t want anyone to know who you are.

THK I’M GAY BUT NOT SURE SEND HELP

I am most ashamed of the moments where my fear of beg outed and disgt of my homosexualy turned to homophobia that hurt others. Derek was the only openly gay guy our school and he was on the team. One night durg sophomore year of high school, I lay on my bed listeng to Come to J by Chris Rice on repeat.

DO GOD STILL LOVE ME IF I’M GAY?

Durg my sophomore year of llege after a gay brother was kicked out of our Christian aterny, I took the sry step of sharg my story wh the entire aterny. I need straight brothers to know how to better love people like me, and I need gay brothers to know that they weren’t alone.

Straight Christians don’t know how to love gay people well. Gay kids shouldn’t have to worry whether their iends or fay will still love them when they e out.

Bee I am gay, I’ve bee thoroughly nvced that God lov LGBT+ people and wants so fiercely for the Church to actually offer those bt thgs He hop we would take hold of. I n’t image how I would have e to know God’s love for me, all people, and particular those on the margs, if I weren’t gay. ” to help Christians rpond passnately to g out and gay pri.

IM TOO GAY WALL ART

*What do I mean when I e the word gay? Culturally, I intify as gay as a way of intifyg wh other gay Christians stewardg their sexuali acrdg to a historic Christian sexual ethic. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angel Tim) To the edor: I wonr if the LGBTQ+ muny realiz that the Supreme Court lg favor of a webse signer who didn’t want to create weddg s for gay upl n work our favor as well.

(“How the ripple effect of the Supreme Court’s 303 Creative cisn uld swamp civil rights, ” Opn, July 12)As a gay man, I am always ncerned if the bs where I spend my money are supportive of my muny. On Saturday, June 28, 1969, New York Cy police attempted to raid the Stonewall Inn, a bar servg the gay muny.