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.
WHEN DID YOU REALIZE YOU 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.
), all gay men had AIDS.
The very few gay men I knew did die of AIDS, though was rarely spoken about.
WHEN DID YOU REALISE/ACCEPT THAT YOU WERE GAY?
Other pictns of gay men were flamboyant queens, sissy effemate men, etc. 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.
The first “gay” book I bought was Gvanni’s Room by Jam Baldw. Early gay fictn nearly always had tragic endgs.