“I Realized I Was Gay”: 29 Men In This Onle Group Who Came Out Later In Life Share What Was Their Turng Pot | Bored Panda

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• GAY PEOPLE WHO E OUT LATER LIFE FACE UNIQUE OBSTACL
• “I REALIZED I WAS GAY”: 29 MEN IN THIS ONLE GROUP WHO CAME OUT LATER IN LIFE SHARE WHAT WAS THEIR TURNG POT
• I WAS MARRIED WH 2 KIDS WHEN I REALIZED I’M GAY

GAY PEOPLE WHO E OUT LATER LIFE FACE UNIQUE OBSTACL

For Brad and Cyndi Marler, was that they are both gay.

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“I REALIZED I WAS GAY”: 29 MEN IN THIS ONLE GROUP WHO CAME OUT LATER IN LIFE SHARE WHAT WAS THEIR TURNG POT

The landmark mastream 2018 rom- Love, Simon ma stris showg a closeted gay high schooler g out to iends and fay and gettg a even benchmarks like that don't mean all queer people feel ready to embrace their sexualy by the time they leave home. Sger-songwrer Barry Manilow was 73 when he first spoke publicly about beg gay; Osr-wng actor Joel Grey did so at g out is still generally prented as a re-of-passage for teens and twenty-somethgs. Only by discsg why some queer people take longer to embrace their sexualy n we help other late-bloomers to do the Baer, executive producer and show nner on the Netflix seri Dignated Survivor, me out as gay his fifti bee he was feelg “creasg anxiety about livg a double life.

Stuart, 44, says he’s “never fully revered” om growg up a small town “where I didn’t even know what beg gay was. ” Stuart had his gay sexual experience when he was 23, then began a “dragged out” g out procs at 28. It would be so much easier not to be gay.

Jak, a 30-year-old gay man who me out a few weeks before the COVID-19 panmic took global hold, says he’s benefed enormoly om the kdns of strangers.

I WAS MARRIED WH 2 KIDS WHEN I REALIZED I’M GAY

“Through Instagram and Twter I beme iends wh gay guys who gave me advice, helped me when I was my darkt plac and beme ‘that person’ I uld speak to, ” he says.