I owe my happs to the queer iends I ma. And to my younger self who hated beg gay: all is fiven, says i newspaper lumnist Eleanor Margolis
Contents:
- ‘I FELL LOVE WH A GAY MAN AND NEARLY BROKE ME’
- I WAS SURE I WAS GAY – UNTIL I FELL LOVE WH MY BT FEMALE IEND
- IT TOOK ME A LONG TIME, BUT I’VE FALLY FALLEN LOVE WH BEG GAY
- DO GAY PEOPLE FALL LOVE?
- ‘HE BROKE MY HEART TO A BILLN PIEC’: WHEN A STRAIGHT WOMAN FALLS LOVE WH A GAY MAN
‘I FELL LOVE WH A GAY MAN AND NEARLY BROKE ME’
Sam Wilkson me out as gay at 18 years old, then realised he was pansexual after fallg love wh his female bt iend. * fall in love with a gay guy *
I uldn’t say was bee he was gay, ” said the 46-year-old.
I WAS SURE I WAS GAY – UNTIL I FELL LOVE WH MY BT FEMALE IEND
That's right — not every gay movie has to end wh heartbreak. * fall in love with a gay guy *
Davidson, om Sydney, Atralia, says she’s not the first straight woman to fall for a gay man.
People ask, uldn’t we tell we were fallg love wh a gay man?
IT TOOK ME A LONG TIME, BUT I’VE FALLY FALLEN LOVE WH BEG GAY
* fall in love with a gay guy *
” But both refer to the same thg — straight women who have strong, often highly tense and mutually supportive relatnships wh gay men. The days, straight women and gay men who get along would probably jt be lled iends, but “handbags” were often vol and visual supporters of the LGBTQ muny when discrimatn — legal and otherwise — was still rampant.
DO GAY PEOPLE FALL LOVE?
“So many women have acted as protectors, cheerlears, and supporters of their gay iends, but always the background, ” Davidson says.
“Straight alli, and particularly women, are a val part of the fight for gay rights.
” Her grandmother was a “beard, ” or fake girliend, to gay men she was close to, while her mother helped when the muny was beg vastated by AIDS.
‘HE BROKE MY HEART TO A BILLN PIEC’: WHEN A STRAIGHT WOMAN FALLS LOVE WH A GAY MAN
“I’d been raised a fay wh lots of gay men , so I should have known better than anyone (not to fall love wh one), ” Davidson says.