After Years Of Fallg For Gay Men, Here's What I Learned About Myself

Contents:

• WHAT I LEARNED ABOUT MYSELF AFTER YEARS OF FALLG FOR GAY MEN
• GAY MEN AND STRAIGHT MEN AS FRIENDS
• ‘I FELL LOVE WH A GAY MAN AND NEARLY BROKE ME’
• FALLG FOR MY GAY IEND

WHAT I LEARNED ABOUT MYSELF AFTER YEARS OF FALLG FOR GAY MEN

My persistence fallg love wh gay I don’t mean havg a csh on Neil Patrick Harris or dreamg about removg Anrson Cooper’s black-amed glass to share a th-lipped kiss. " Luckily, I never learned to drive, as Matt’s current profile pic on Facebook featur him wrapped a rabow, my early 20s, I uldn’t rist the plump lips and bedroom ey of my Greek gay btie, Peter. I knew he was gay, but so was I, and I liked him, so I gus the whole gay thg was pretty flexible, right?

“He’s gay, ” they’d say a you-know-that-right? We never spoke gay men? All all, I’m glad my persistence fallg for gay men has e to a close.

GAY MEN AND STRAIGHT MEN AS FRIENDS

So you're the same crappy boat as all people (gay, straight, or bi) who love someone that don't love them back. I always thought that was my flt that I was gay and that I was gog to my iendship wh her nstantly.

Durg that time I jt felt like everythg was wrong wh me, if only I was a boy or if only she was gay or if only I didn't love her etc..

Go to askgaybros. So my cursy got the bt of me and I started lookg up gay porn.

‘I FELL LOVE WH A GAY MAN AND NEARLY BROKE ME’

So I'm totally a closet bi/gay. TL;DR - I thought I was straight, got cur, started chattg wh a guy 3 hours away, met up, did everythg together, talked everyday sce we met, velopg feelgs for each other, need to take slow, not sure how but termed to figure out, never been happier, both closet bi/gay.

Around September time, I realised that maybe I might be cshg on him but back then I didn't know that he was gay. I've never been love so I don't know how to regnise but am I fallg love wh my gay bt iend? Fallg for gay bt iend?

He acted like he liked me too, but then July last year he told me he was gay.

FALLG FOR MY GAY IEND

My feelgs for him have started to e back but I thk he's still gay. He is/was fely gay, the way he acted after he told me nnot be terpreted as lyg, was super emotnal. This all got me thkg about my own iendships and those of my gay male clients.

The bonds between gay men and straight women have been wrten about and featured popular media (i.

Sex the Cy, Will and Grace), though a lot ls has been said about how gay and straight men regnize and negotiate the distct challeng, plitns, and rewards of their iendships. Acrdg to Garfield, among the many obstacl to male-male platonic timacy, fear of homosexualy looms large. Straight men et that if they get too close, others will see them as gay; which their mds means feme (horrors!