The roots of gay shame | Matthew Todd | The Guardian

Contents:

• LIVG AUTHENTILLY THE LGBTQ COMMUNY: HOW TO MOVE PAST “GAY SHAME” [VIO]
• SELF-LOATHG AMONG GAY PEOPLE IS NOTHG NEW. WE’RE OVERWHELMED BY
• GAY SHAME: 5 WAYS GAY MEN COMPENSATE
• THE ROOTS OF GAY SHAME
• OVERG THE SHAME OF BEG GAY
• GAY SHAME

LIVG AUTHENTILLY THE LGBTQ COMMUNY: HOW TO MOVE PAST “GAY SHAME” [VIO]

In 2014, after six years of workg at a gay bar, I cid to give up alhol bee of the toll was begng to take on my own life.

SELF-LOATHG AMONG GAY PEOPLE IS NOTHG NEW. WE’RE OVERWHELMED BY

I remember a ctomer tellg me once that fdg a sober gay person at a gay bar is like disverg a unirn. Recently, a young gay man I once worked wh reached out to me about his attempt at sobriety.

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" Here we were, two gay people, both workg at a gay bar, yet not only was she exced to have been mistaken for beg heterosexual, but she also had no problem exprsg to me or was even aware of the implitns had. To the gree we are willg to name ternalized homophobia wh ourselv is the gree wh which we n stop passg along to future generatns. Over the years, I've e to learn that the ner stggle wh shame I had as a gay man is not unmon among many LGBTQ+ people.

GAY SHAME: 5 WAYS GAY MEN COMPENSATE

It's not possible for an LGBTQ+ person to be socialized a domant heteronormative culture and not feel the stg of homophobia and transphobia. Internalized Homophobia and Dg Use a Natnal Cohort of Gay and Bisexual Men: Examg Deprsn, Sexual Anxiety, and Gay Communy Attachment as Mediatg Factors.

THE ROOTS OF GAY SHAME

Livg Authentilly the LGBTQ Communy: How to Move Past “Gay Shame” [Transcript] For some people, gay shame may seem like a term for only queer, cisgenr men. However, gay shame n refer to any feelgs of ferry due to your sexualy/genr inty. Watch a ee webar on how to live thentilly by overg gay shame Breakg the cycle of gay shame the LGBTQ muny So how do we break the cycle of shame the LGBTQ muny?

For example, many are raised a relig hoeholds that hold beliefs like “gay people are unnatural or will go to hell. Read more about how gay men pensate for gay shame Developg a sense of LGBTQ empowerment Fdg the eedom and LGBTQ empowerment to be the te you may not be a lear journey. Therapy may be an optn for you if you would like support overg gay shame and havg a safe space to disver your thentic self.

If Ethan Stabl, the 20-year-old man nvicted on Monday of planng to kill atten of a lol gay pri event Cumbria, was really bisexual as he claimed urt, why would he want to hurt other LGBT people? Sadly he wouldn’t be the gay people know the most homophobic school bully often pops up the lol gay bar a few years later, but there are wir exampl: Hollywood agents who bar clients om g out, historil figur such as Senator McCarthy’s anti-gay lawyer Roy Cohn, who mataed till the end that the Aids-related illns that killed him was liver ncer, the untls homophobic policians ught wh male rts.

OVERG THE SHAME OF BEG GAY

Omar Mateen, who mted Ameri’s most adly homophobic attack at the Pulse nightclub Orlando, Florida 2016, pledged his allegiance to Isis but was also alleged to have ma sexual advanc towards men.

We all grow up hearg homo- and transphobia, and, as I say my book Straight Jacket, LGBT kids aren’t given magil earplugs. This should be ont-page people are not the only on to suffer such shame, but experts, both gay and straight, agree that gay kids are overwhelmed wh .

Many bury their feelgs, hopg they’ll go away, some psychologilly “spl”, like the heterosexually married men who believe anonymo ter hook-ups don’t unt as gay if they happen secret.

GAY SHAME

Jt this week I met a young man who told me he hated gay pri, hated effemate men but ccially was tryg to work through the feelgs by talkg about them. The gay muny don’t talk about this enough, and when we do ’s often wh judgment. Perhaps like former notor 1980s neo-Nazi street fighter Nicky Crane, who also eventually me out as gay.