He beme a viral sensatn, g the phrase, "I don't like mens no more!" Andrew Caldwell liv Missouri, but he reached out to NBC12 to clear the air about the vio, his “gay nversn” experience and the backlash he has felt.
Contents:
- I’VE INTIFIED AS GAY FOR YEARS. NOT ANYMORE.
- CELEBRI WHO HAVE LEFT A GAY LIFTYLE
- 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.
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.
CELEBRI WHO HAVE LEFT A GAY LIFTYLE
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. Homosexualy is not fixed and unchangeable, as the public figur reveal.