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We n nclu that Lnel Msi is not gay and he is not bisexual. He is jt a normal man who lov women.

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BEYONCé’S RENAISSANCE IS A BIG, GAY MS

* mess gay *

At my school, the very place that I first observed queer cursy, I was sred to e out, fearg my own physil and emotnal wasn’t jt the school locker room where I heard homophobic remarks.

Gay people are an abomatn and are gog to Hell if they don’t get right wh God.

LNEL MSI IS GAY: THE TTH REVEALED BEHD HIS SEXUALY!

” Years later he warned: “If you turn out gay, I’ll fuck you up.

Image me, a young black gay Christian male, tryg to rencile my sexualy wh school, home, and church life. What happens to a black gay Christian who liv a hoehold that hat him; who really believed that he was gog to Hell.

Perhaps was the support of iends, nts, and those around me that ma me not want to feel ashamed about myself anymore, even if that meant God damng me to the begng of senr year, I went om “I’m gay” to whoever asked, to “Can you stop sayg faggot please? A month later, I cid to no longer participate the mentorship program, and every time I was asked why, I ma exc about beg too time, I retreated to my fantasy world, where I was not sixteen and gay a homophobic environment, but a world where I was olr, the future, when I would arrive to a betiful home om a long day at work, and be weled by a hband who lov me and bears my burns on his shoulrs. I was thrilled to be leavg and movg on, but I uld see that many of my fellow graduat were facg siar hurdl, on that I had enuntered, and had only masked their tth wh homophobia.

IS LNEL MSI GAY? HERE IS THE TTH

It has been suggted that a cleanls mania swept through gay circl after many men wnsed their iends die agonizg aths (a standard symptom of AIDS is diarrhea). Wispread accs to porn via the ter -- which generally prents gay sex as a clean, ms-ee affair -- along wh profs garnered by toymakers, sex suppliers, and wellns brands om sellg douch, scbs, balms, and other products that palize on our secury have llectively rulted the wispread myth that a priste hole mak a good bottom. Every time you participate shame -- even wh the smallt, quippit read a gay bar -- you isolate and punish someone for beg human.

GAY CULTURE HAS GROWN TOXIC WH UNCHECKED PRIVILEGE. IT'S TIME FOR TO RET

Most gra-school jok about gay men aren't really about gay men -- they're about bottoms. I (male) had my first gay experience when I was around 12 years old.

AMERI MOVED ON FROM ITS GAY-RIGHTS MOMENT—AND LEFT A LEGAL MS BEHD

I never associated what we did wh the ia of ‘gay’.

Homosexualy at that age.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* MESS GAY

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