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GAY HUNTER FDS PATH AND POWER SELF-ACCEPTANCE
I had dropped out of graduate school as the anxiety and fear of beg gay had begun to strangle my will to live. I am gay, and I am ntent here.
I learned that "beg Gay was bad, choosg a liftyle of s would lead you to Hell. " I was bombard wh the e of the words “gross” and “wrong” as synonymo to gay.
People talked about beg gay as if were a sickns or at bt somethg to be hidn. In the high school football and basketball locker room and on the baseball field the words “gay” and “faggot” were ed as sults to the opposg teams. I worked hard to ignore any "gay thoughts.
Y, SOME HUNTERS ARE GAY
" I was not gay I told myself. Bee I was gay, I thought I will never f .
A gay man nnot enjoy huntg, or sports, or have a fay, I thought. I have even spoken wh a few hunters who are gay and enjoy the sport as much as I do. My fear was out of worry of losg them, out of the fear that they will be treated differently bee of me beg gay.
A world that tells how we should look and act certa plac if we want to belong — whether we are straight or gay, Christian or Mlim, Black or Hispanic. The sgle most important reason I am happy to be gay is bee has challenged me to look at people and see only someone who is servg of passn and kdns, even though the world may tell me to see somethg else. wh my homosexualy, I also stggle wh my inty as a.