Are you qutng your sexualy? Fd out if you’re gay, straight, bisexual, or asexual. Learn what the terms mean and if they apply to you.
Contents:
- HOW TO ACCEPT THAT YOU ARE GAY
- AM I GAY?
- HOW TO TELL IF YOUR GUY FRIEND IS GAY
- HELP! MY ONLY FRIENDS ARE HOMOPHOBIC AND DON’T KNOW I’M GAY
- HOW TO DEAL WHEN YOUR BT FRIEND IS GAY
- HOW TO DISCREETLY FD OUT IF SOMEONE YOU KNOW IS GAY
- ALWAYS KNEW I WAS ADOPTED; JT FOUND OUT I’M GAY
- HOW TO KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY
- WHAT TO DO WHEN YOUR CHILD SAYS: "I'M GAY"
HOW TO ACCEPT THAT YOU ARE GAY
* my friends found out i'm gay *
Your iends, who might already spect that you’re gay, will get to know you on a eper level and likely feel much closer to you.
Most people the LGBTQ+ muny know om experience that acceptg your sexualy will lead to your beg a happier, more open this gui, the term gay has been ed to clu all forms of non-heterosexual attractn, whether that be people who are lbian, gay, bisexual, queer, pansexual, or otherwise not straight. Consir takg an onle sexualy quiz, like this one, to see if intifyg as gay feels right for you. There isn't any need to change yourself - beg gay is jt another way of simply existg, and there is nothg wrong wh at all.
The fact that I am gay is jt another facet of who I am, jt as beg creative, or optimistic, or havg brown ey is.
AM I GAY?
There are lots of reasons why you might want to know if your iend is gay. There are some important thgs that you have to unrstand about this suatn before gog forward, however. Someone's sexualy is highly plex and highly... * my friends found out i'm gay *
Remember that beg gay do not require you to nform to typil gay stereotyp. Most people who are gay are distguishable om those that aren't. Beg gay do not necsarily make you any ls mascule or feme, and there is no need or prsure to nform to stereotyp that don't feel right to you - bee you are who you are.
You do not need to f to the gay muny jt as much as you don't need to f to the straight muny.
There is no evince that "helpg gay people to bee heterosexual" is possible. Homosexualy is not viewed as an illns and short, won't be treated as such. There are many, many gay people all sorts of muni, and there are many people there for you when you need support.
HOW TO TELL IF YOUR GUY FRIEND IS GAY
Fd a group or a hangout where you feel fortable, and where there will be other gay people to talk wh. If you were raised an environment that owns on homosexualy, you are not worth any ls. The laws the Bible were maly for health purpos - shunng homosexualy is right next to not gettg tattoos, not eatg pork, and not wearg mixed lens, but you n bet your bottom dollar all your neighbors do those thgs.
Your iends and fay love "you, " not straight you or gay you, they love you.
HELP! MY ONLY FRIENDS ARE HOMOPHOBIC AND DON’T KNOW I’M GAY
Unrstand that a person who is gay is no different om any other person. Like everyone else, gay people have dreams and goals and want pannship and love jt like anyone else you know. I don't want to e out bee my siblgs may get bullied for havg a gay brother.
It is important to note that the Amerin Psychologil Associatn has clared that groups claimg to cure homosexualy are dangero and unhealthy.
HOW TO DEAL WHEN YOUR BT FRIEND IS GAY
If you are still beg supported by parents whom you are que sure would disown you for beg gay, may be pnt to wa to tell them until you are pennt. You may regret the acceptance of your orientatn the future, pecially if you're a part of the world where the gay muny is beg prosecuted by a specific culture. Article SummaryXIf you stggle wh acceptg your attractn to the same sex, know that beg gay is pletely normal and you n be proud of who you are by fdg support and embracg your dividualy.
It’s also important to unrstand that you don’t need to nform to gay stereotyp or tl, as they are artificial social nstcts. I’ve known sce I was a kid that I was different even though I didn’t know what gay was back then. I went on dat wh girls and pretend I was straight bee I wanted to f and bee I’ve never known an openly gay person real life.
Now I’ve never heard my dad say somethg homophobic or anythg like that but he is the epome of a “manly” man. Now don’t flame me, I know gay people do the thgs, I’m jt tryg to show how I don’t f wh my ‘manly’ fay and how I feel like an outst bee I’m not like them even though I pretend to be.
HOW TO DISCREETLY FD OUT IF SOMEONE YOU KNOW IS GAY
There is a gay club that I have always wanted to go to, but I would park across the street or walk up and down the siwalk ont of bee I didn’t have the guts to go even though I always wanted to.
My dad keeps mentng gay people the news whout makg a pot and is beg elive. My ‘manly’ man dad wept my kchen and told me after hearg about all the young gay people killg themselv over the past year he has been terrified that I am gog to do the same thg bee I won’t talk about beg gay and jt hid .
ALWAYS KNEW I WAS ADOPTED; JT FOUND OUT I’M GAY
My sister was out wh some ary iends and when I told her she yelled to everyone the bar “My baby brother is gay and I love him!
On Friday my dad, my brother, my sister and my 3 bt iends took me to the gay club I always wanted to go to.
HOW TO KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY
" the other said "lets jt get to a quieter spot wh no people and we will tell him", and when we me to a park we sat down all 6 of and one of my iends said "Conut, we kda know youre gay" and i jt felt dread and shock and some time passed talkg about and turns out they support me, that was the day i got a shred of happs and hope my life. To start, let me clarify that I don’t have anythg agast anyone who is gay, fact, my s gay, and that has never changed the way I’ve seen her.
WHAT TO DO WHEN YOUR CHILD SAYS: "I'M GAY"
However, as all straight guys n attt to, people thkg your gay is somethg we don’t want or like at all. Jt a uple days ago I told my iends about Gary, and as I told I jokgly said “yeah I asked for this du Gary’s snap at a cross untry meet one time, no homo tho”. They thk there was really no need for me sayg no homo, and that sce I said , I’m tryg to hi somethg, and that somethg is I’m gay.
Reason 2: At lunch, they were clowng on me, as iends do, about Gary, and how gay I am. At one pot time, back before 7th Gra, when I was first htg puberty, I really thought I was gay for like a 2 day time perd. Now I realize that ’s normal for dus to be weird out by that stuff when they first start to see girls as more than jt iends, but at the time I thought “Well, if straight guys like to jack to girls, and I don’t like the ia of jackg to them, then, the most obv ncln is that, I am a homosexual person”.
Addnally, I was a pretty chubby guy 7th gra and very self nsc, and when I’d look at myself the mirror and then look at a guy who was mcley and toned and jt better lookg objectively, I would thk to myself “man I’d like to have that body”, and then those thoughts turned to “bro your gay bee you like the way the dus and their bodi look”. I snapped out of that mdset pretty quickly bee I realized how stupid I was thkg, but I brought up to my iends a uple days ago and they never let me expla myself, and so now they jt thk I’m gay. So, my iends know all this about how I’m bad at talkg to girls, so they may see as I’m bad at talkg to girls bee I’m simply jt not to them, and that I’m to dus stead, and that I’m gay.