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Contents:
- DGS THAT WILL TURN YOU GAY – PART 3
- DEPRSN IS KILLG GAY MEN
- I’M 43 – BUT I’M MA TO FEEL LIKE A DOSR BY YOUNGER GAY MEN
DGS THAT WILL TURN YOU GAY – PART 3
* antidepressants made me gay *
Jam Harris looks at the recent Pakillers ma me gay story that featured the UK prs and looks at the potential damagg effect this n have on people who are tryg to e to terms wh their sexual orientatn or genr inty.
You may have already heard the recent story that featured the tabloid prs about the young man who turned gay after takg pakillers…or so he claims. Acrdg to his own terpretatn of events, Stt Purdy was a ‘hot-blood’ heterosexual who enjoyed datg women, but when the 23-year-old was prcribed the pakiller Pregabal for a long-term ankle jury, he sists he lost his sexual attractn to women and beme gay. Perhaps Purdy had experienced signifint homophobia his life and harboured levels of ternalised shame so lible and profound, he end up supprsg his te sexualy so much he was even able to nvce himself that his pill story was real.
DEPRSN IS KILLG GAY MEN
Everyone has the potential to bee gay. There are 30-40,000 gen your body, all tak is jt a few beg swched on and your life will change drastilly. * antidepressants made me gay *
" Perhaps this openns enuraged him to stop supprsg his homosexualy. The possibily that you are gay - or somewhere on the LGBT+ spectm - shouldn’t be a ‘troublg notn’ at all.
I’M 43 – BUT I’M MA TO FEEL LIKE A DOSR BY YOUNGER GAY MEN
Gay men experience more prsn and suici, but help is available. * antidepressants made me gay *
There is nothg whatsoever ‘fundamentally at flt’ about beg gay/bi/transgenr/etc. Fally, even if we nsir that environmental factors uld so drastilly change someone’s sexualy, do actually matter how or why people are gay, whether the are ternal or external, whether fabulons the form of a pill or a pickled onn? Who knows, perhaps the pill did turn him gay; acrdg to Attu magaze, “si effects do clu a loss of libido”, so perhaps there’s a nnectn here.
Believe or not, s of sudn, extreme shifts sexual orientatn supposedly triggered by external ndns is not unprecented; 2011, Chris Birch om Caerphilly, Wal suffered a stroke triggered by a eak accint, and claimed afterwards that this had turned him om straight to gay.