I’ve intified as gay for years. Not anymore. - The Johns Hopks News-Letter

Contents:

• I’VE INTIFIED AS GAY FOR YEARS. NOT ANYMORE.
• AM I GAY OR NOT QUIZ?
• I LIKE GUYS BUT I DON’T WANT TO BE GAY. HOW DO I STOP BEG GAY?

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

I've seen a lot of people ship OMORI and BASIL which I didn't thk was normal, sce BASIL and OMORI aren't gay. So I'm kd of cur if I'm wrong or somethg, but is BASIL gay? "Why do you thk Basil is gay?

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. 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.

AM I GAY OR NOT QUIZ?

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. Often when I tell some people that I’m distancg myself om gay, they immediately suggt I intify as bisexual, or pansexual.

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

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. When I was six, the boys who teased me labelled me as gay. The adults my life labelled me as gay.

And for a while after g out, “gay” worked fe. Am I gay? Why am I gay?

Numero scientists, psychologists, healthre profsnals, and even relig activists are batg the nature of homosexualy (as well as other kds of sexualy).