Adolcence n be a ighteng perd for young gay men, who are sudnly faced wh new sexual feelgs that n often nflict wh social prsur placed on them by fay, iends, and the media. Mike Curato explor this tumultuo perd his new Godw Books graphic novel, Flamer, a semi-tobgraphil…
Contents:
- MEET THE GAYBROS
- A GAY TEEN DISVERS HIMSELF AT SUMMER MP THIS FLAMER FIRST LOOK
- DAD ACCINTALLY DISVERS HIS TEENAGE SON IS GAY, CONSULTS REDD ON HOW TO RPOND
- AS A GAY MAN, I’LL NEVER BE NORMAL
MEET THE GAYBROS
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Accintally found out 12 y/o son is gay. When he was younger we had spicns he would turn out gay, so we always showsed our support so we knew he’d be fortable if he was, but once he h puberty was clear he was to girls, always talked about them, never showed tert boys romantilly, and started datg a girl a few months back. My 12 y/o is a sweet boy, but we (largely due to stereotyp, which you n blame on ), never spected he was gay.
A GAY TEEN DISVERS HIMSELF AT SUMMER MP THIS FLAMER FIRST LOOK
His boyiend’s parents know they’re a uple, and his boyiend is openly gay to their school as well. He’s been askg some more qutns about dynamics a gay relatnship, and also been askg about gay history (he’s a very smart boy).
Meet the Gaybros. They make the gay muny mad. After a ltle over a year existence, Gaybros now fds self at a promisg but uncerta crossroads.
DAD ACCINTALLY DISVERS HIS TEENAGE SON IS GAY, CONSULTS REDD ON HOW TO RPOND
As members of Gaybros—a Redd-based muny for gay guys wh tradnally manly terts like sports, huntg, and beer—the large majory of their bondg tak place through ment threads unr topics like “Ron Swanson vs. Jam Bond” and “My Gay Card Has Been Revoked.
” someone I’m too ld to look toward explas, referencg the cy’s premiere gay sports bar. If the Gaybro’s missn statement is “a place for guys to get together and talk about, well, guy stuff.
The r is classic pub, all dark woods and vtage trophi, but wh a cidly gay twist: Look even briefly at the hoe-ma baseball and football player posters ratg the walls, and more than sportsmanlike appreciatn for the athletic male form quickly be apparent. From my perch by the rner at pile, I survey the scene: Gay men of an imprsive range of age, race, attractivens, body type, and ball-p embroiry shake hands and strike up nversatns.
AS A GAY MAN, I’LL NEVER BE NORMAL
He has brought along a solidly built and more maturely handsome AIDS rearcher wh whom I spend a nsirable amount of time discsg the cle of gay social spac like the one we’re . Given that the few gay spac that do rema are almost always segregated by race, age, and sexual type (twk, bear, leather, etc. Also worthy of note was the lack of excsive ciss wh the group; though gay men almost never stop flirtg entirely, this was clearly not, as multiple bros would tell me, a “datg service.
After the first round had been draed, I overhear my iend Jake—who I only found out was a Gaybro sympathizer after startg on this story and whose hband, Tim Ka, is one of the group’s morators—rpond scily to a ment about football players’ jock straps: “Now that’s a game I uld get to! Pl, I thought I’d earned a break om the prsure of all those firm handshak: The uple I was crashg wh had ved me to a gay hoe party promisg more faiar acutrements like cdés and Robyn mic, so I Google-mapped my way across Boston om bro to ‘mo.
But as I glanced around at the Crate & Barrel brand of gayns on display this open-ncept, Hdu y-studd livg room, I felt, not relief, but a twge of doubt. So read an stant msage om a lleague when he learned that I was gog to be chillg wh the Gaybros.