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Sam Wilkson me out as gay at 18 years old, then realised he was pansexual after fallg love wh his female bt iend.

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I WAS SURE I WAS GAY – UNTIL I FELL LOVE WH MY BT FEMALE IEND

Gay - attractn to the same genr.

If she's not part of LGBT+ (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr) muny then don't imprs her, chanc are she's not to women. I uldn’t say was bee he was gay, ” said the Davidson, om Sydney, says she’s not the first straight woman to fall for a gay bloke. People ask, uldn’t we tell we were fallg lovg wh a gay man?

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 woman and gay men who get along would probably jt be lled mat, but “handbags” were often vol and visual supports of the homosexual muny when discrimatn — legal and otherwise — was still rampant.

‘HE BROKE MY HEART TO A BILLN PIEC’: WHEN A STRAIGHT WOMAN FALLS LOVE WH A GAY MAN

“So many women have acted as protectors, cheerlears and supporters of their gay iends, but always the background, ” Ms 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.

“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), ” Ms Davidson says. “A gay man wasn’t a shy unirn I’d never seen before. “I know a woman who was a relatnship for 17 years before he me out as gay.

”Most of the time a gay bt iend might be obliv if his female iend has fallen for him. But some gay men actually enurage , she says.

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

“The wonrful thg about gay men is they talk to me like I’m a person bee they don’t want to get your knickers. “Wh a uple of months he was htg the gay bars. ”Ms Davidson says straight men uld learn a thg or two om their gay brothers.

“I kd of knew (he was gay) and I kd of didn’t. “I’m gog to try not to fall love wh any more gay men.

Origatg 1960s Japan, where  was known as “yaoi, ” BL typilly picts two men a homoerotic relatnship. Some LGBTQ activists have acced BL stori of fetishizg and appropriatg gay culture. Wily regnized as South Korea’s first openly gay K-pop artist, the sger and actor Go Tae-seob, who the stage name Holland, starred a BL drama last year and believ that the growg visibily of BL books, TV seri and movi is a posive step.

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