I grew up the 1980s and 1990s. Depictns of gay people were not flatterg. It seemed to me and om what my mother told me (She was a public health nurse.), all gay men had AIDS. The very few gay men I knew did die of AIDS, though was rarely spoken about. Other…
Contents:
- WHEN DID YOU KNOW YOU WERE GAY?
- WHEN DID YOU REALIZE YOU WERE GAY?
- WHEN DID YOU REALISE/ACCEPT THAT YOU WERE GAY?
WHEN DID YOU KNOW YOU WERE GAY?
Then he addrsed the class, stctg each to take out a piece of paper and a pen and wre down the moment when we all realized we were gay. I had already been asked a ln tim, "When did you know you were gay", but I was thrilled to have someone state the qutn aloud, the ntext of an amic exercise.
If I was gay, I wonred if meant that I would be required to cut my hair to a buzzcut like the (first, ostensibly) lbian (I had ever nfirmed as such) my mother had poted out to me at the Ralph Lren outlet a middle-class untry town you might fd somewhere like Vermont; a untry town where you might fd lbians. Depictns of gay people were not flatterg.
WHEN DID YOU REALIZE YOU WERE GAY?
), all gay men had AIDS.
The very few gay men I knew did die of AIDS, though was rarely spoken about. Other pictns of gay men were flamboyant queens, sissy effemate men, etc.
WHEN DID YOU REALISE/ACCEPT THAT YOU WERE GAY?
Early on, I had hts I was gay, but I ignored them.
He was my masturbatn material my teenage years, yet, I did not realize I was gay. When I was llege, I wanted to learn more about beg gay, so I went to Barn and Noble.
Not only did I know this is where a lot of gay men hung out, but B&N also had books on the subject.