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10 GAY MEN THEIR 30S GIVE ADVICE TO THEIR 20-SOMETHG SELV
After all, gay men are force-fed that beg young is ial. And for gay men, who n often enter this wh a murky sense of inty or a nflictg emotnal re, our 20s are ually a time of msy self-disvery that most of are more than happy to move past, even if that is hard to remember an effort to stop the nightmare of agg that is, realy, a God-send, I asked a group of 30-somethg men about the trials and travails of their 20s, and to reveal what advice they would give to their former selv.
Reject the gay media his early 20s, John bought to the Queer as Folk myth that all gay men mt be fabulo and have equally fabulo iends. Bee of that, his early days were spent the gay clubs tryg to be "one of them. "My advice [to my former self] would be to not let what you see the media fe what you are as a gay man, " John says.
Jt said the msage was simple: "If you are gay, you get AIDS and die, so don't be gay. I wish I uld have told myself that 's gog to be OK, and that beg gay is nothg to be ashamed of.