I’ve intified as gay for years. Not anymore. - The Johns Hopks News-Letter

Contents:

• I LIKE GUYS BUT I DON’T WANT TO BE GAY. HOW DO I STOP BEG GAY?
• KEV MAXEN, JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH, OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
• I’VE INTIFIED AS GAY FOR YEARS. NOT ANYMORE.

I LIKE GUYS BUT I DON’T WANT TO BE GAY. HOW DO I STOP BEG GAY?

I like guys but I don’t want to be gay. How do I stop beg gay? You don’t need to be certa you are gay before talkg to someone or attendg an LGBTQ+ meetg.

KEV MAXEN, JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH, OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU

I am a gay male. I have been out nearly 7 years now (age 16, sophomore year of HS).

That week I told my iends and fay I was gay. It is very homogeneo/ hetero-normative and beg a tholic stutn is not the easit environment for queer stunts.

I don’t want to be gay anymore [Rant]. My whole life I’ve been told that beg gay I’d a terrible abomatn and that people who choose that liftyle will go to hell. It wasn’t really for a while until I realized I was gay.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY

I want to go to nversn therapy but om what I’ve heard onle so really fucked up, and I’m sred to tell my fay if I want to go bee they will say I jt need to choose a different liftyle, and this is ma worse by some kids at my school who pretend to be gay or lbian when I’m realy they are straight. People have also told me to jt choose to be straight and well meang people tellg me to jt ignore my temptatns, but don’t change that I’m still gay and I to I’ll be lonely for the rt of my life and still go to hell.

I’VE INTIFIED AS GAY FOR YEARS. NOT ANYMORE.

I don’t want to be gay anymore. Both my father and mother were eply homophobic. And one day, a state of extreme stupidy, I cid to tell them: "Mommy, Daddy, I'm gay" Obvly they threw me out, I had to survive wh the miserable thg they paid me the hospal boardg school (I'm a doctor now) and I had to buy a small room where to live until I had a cent livg wage.

You know If I were to go to a blood bank and say "I want to donate blood" and m the stupidy of sayg "I'm gay" they would polely send me to hell or prepare a whole laboratory battery for STI tectn. 14 Ways To Defeat Your Fears of Beg Gay. There are many gay men who say "I'm not part of the scene" -- men who hate gay bars and, prumably, crowds of queer people general.

Internalized homophobia -- self-shamg, self-hatred -- leads many gay men, and many queer people general, to recreate their closets long after they're "out" by shunng others, particularly those they nsir "flamboyant. " Y, there are some good reasons to rce your participatn gay bars (time, money, health).