Lren Morelli, the wrer of ‘Orange Is the New Black’ realized she was gay when she was wrg for the show, which was when she was happily married, had been livg liberal ci for many years, was ted and was 31 years old. “How uld she not know earlier?” mt have been the most erated statement when she me out. But, the tth is that we are not given a choice to choose sexualy when we are born. Beg hetero is normative and your unter-realizatn n h at any pot of your life. We asked seven out-of-the-closet gays about the moment they realized they were not straight and their rpons are as ndid as gets.
Contents:
- WHEN DID YOU KNOW YOU WERE GAY?
- WHEN DID YOU REALIZE YOU WERE GAY?
- 11 HISTORIL FIGUR YOU DIDN’T KNOW WERE GAY
- AM I GAY?
- 7 PEOPLE SHARE THE MOMENT THEY REALIZED THEY WERE GAY
WHEN DID YOU KNOW YOU WERE GAY?
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… * how 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.
WHEN DID YOU REALIZE YOU WERE GAY?
Christian fundamentalists ntue to ntend that homosexualy don't exist, and that gay people choose their liftyle whout any blogil predisposn. They further argue that homosexualy * how did you know you were gay *
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.
11 HISTORIL FIGUR YOU DIDN’T KNOW WERE GAY
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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.
Early on, I had hts I was gay, but I ignored them.
AM I GAY?
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.
7 PEOPLE SHARE THE MOMENT THEY REALIZED THEY WERE GAY
This kept the realizatn I was gay at bay even longer. Slowly, however, I was g to the ncln I was fact gay. I got some gay vios through the mail, and I read Brad Gooch’s Fdg the Boyiend Wh: A Practil Gui for Tappg to Your Own Source of Love, Happs, and Rpect.
Yet, I still uldn’t adm to myself I was gay. It was an ugly scene; I nied I was gay.
From then on, she spected I was gay, and ma me go to the closet even further. I wasn’t about to adm I was gay at that pot.