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Contents:
- 10 GAY MEN THEIR 30S GIVE ADVICE TO THEIR 20-SOMETHG SELV
- HOW GAY CULTURE BLOSSOMED DURG THE ROARG TWENTI
- JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT
10 GAY MEN THEIR 30S GIVE ADVICE TO THEIR 20-SOMETHG SELV
Durg Prohibn, gay nightlife and culture reached new heights—at least temporarily. * being gay in your 20s *
It n work the other way too – you n happen to date people of the same sex and people will assume you’re gay. I recently read the lightful book Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli. Everyone should have to clare one way or another, and shouldn’t be this big awkward thg whether you’re straight, gay, bi, or whatever.
I knew I wasn’t gay, bee, well, I knew that I was attracted to men and that I was a woman. A 2017 survey rried out on behalf of the BBC found out that jt 71% of lennials (those aged 23-37 at the time) intify as exclively straight, fallg to 66% of 16 to 22-year-olds, wh 3-4% of both groups intifyg as exclively gay/lbian.
In the end, Patrick me out as gay, but the pot remas: visibily matters.
HOW GAY CULTURE BLOSSOMED DURG THE ROARG TWENTI
Acrdg to the UK Government’s Natnal LGBT Survey 2017, jt 38% of bisexual people were out to all or most of the fay members they lived wh, pared to 54% of gay/lbian people. After all, gay men are force-fed that beg young is ial.
And for gay men, who n often enter this wh a murky sense of inty or a nflictg emotnal re, our 20s are ually a time of msy self-disvery that most of are more than happy to move past, even if that is hard to remember an effort to stop the nightmare of agg that is, realy, a God-send, I asked a group of 30-somethg men about the trials and travails of their 20s, and to reveal what advice they would give to their former selv. Reject the gay media his early 20s, John bought to the Queer as Folk myth that all gay men mt be fabulo and have equally fabulo iends.
Bee of that, his early days were spent the gay clubs tryg to be "one of them. "My advice [to my former self] would be to not let what you see the media fe what you are as a gay man, " John says.
JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT
Jt said the msage was simple: "If you are gay, you get AIDS and die, so don't be gay.
I wish I uld have told myself that 's gog to be OK, and that beg gay is nothg to be ashamed of. There is no such thg as "too gay.
"After g out as a gay man high school, Raymond was fortable wh his sexualy. He didn't md beg known as gay, beg seen as gay, and actg gay.