Twenty-two years ago, I asked my dad if he was gay. Then he was gone.

bend over gay

The gay world is often reprented as some sort of monolhic whole that has the same culture. That is a lie. It is actually broken down to a handful of substrata to which each gay belongs. Here they are.

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THE GAY FATHER I NEVER KNEW

Lucky for gay/bi men, there are que a number of who know exactly how that feels.

It seems like every gay guy out there is a bottom, and when you thk you've met someone who's fely a He too is a bottom. Many people still mistakenly thk that if a straight man enjoys beg perated, mak him gay ( don’t) or unmanly (utter bollocks). But lettg ternalised homophobia and genr rol get the way of md-blowg asms seems a ltle b silly, don’t ?

I also knew that my dad mt be gay—bee, well, of urse.

A HANDY GUI TO ALL GAY MEN

While I’d never met an out gay man, I kd of knew what they were supposed to be like om movi and TV, and Dad f the mold: He loved to ok; he cleaned obssively; he kept the Internatnal Male talog around, bee, he said, “I like the cloth. “You know, ” I said to Dad, “I asked Mom once if you were gay.

“Gay?

“I’m not gay. ” she’d said our kchen—after a long nversatn she’d had wh an openly gay iend om llege, Pat, who had, apparently, been a nfidant of Dad’s. Years later Mom told me that, acrdg to Pat, Dad had been active Lexgton and Louisville’s gay club scene.

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Twenty-two years ago, I asked my dad if he was gay. Then he was gone. .

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