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Contents:

• GAY DATG UNED KGDOM
• HOW TO MAKE GAY FRIENDS: AN LBGT FRIENDSHIP GUI
• GAY BT IENDS WHO POSED AS STRAIGHT FALLY MARRY THEIR REAL PARTNERS
• 10 GREAT BRISH GAY FILMS
• GAY-IENDS ALL CLASSIFIEDS LONDON
• HOW TO MAKE IENDS AS A GAY MAN
• GAY MEN AND STRAIGHT MEN AS FRIENDS
• THE TOP LGBTQ+ DATG S AND APPS: 14 BT GAY DATG S
• EAST LONDON GAY MEN'S MEETUP
• BT GAY DATG APPS FOR HOOKUPS, RELATNSHIPS, AND EVERYTHG BETWEEN
• GAY IEND

GAY DATG UNED KGDOM

While the ma dience of this subredd is largely gay men we do ask participants to be rpectful and welg to our alli the LGBT+ muny.

Outsi of LGBTQ+-specific meetups, a great way to fd LGBT iendships is actually by attendg meetups that gay people typilly like.

HOW TO MAKE GAY FRIENDS: AN LBGT FRIENDSHIP GUI

I’ll never fet beg 15 years old and walkg to my first ever meetg for lbian, gay, bi, queer, and trans youth at BAGLY Boston. ”) The close queer iends we make bee a chosen fay, wh a shared culture and inty, formg the bonds that are sential to our wellns and as gay bars and bookstor are closg left and right, many of have turned to apps to fill that gap, meang we spend more time than ever alone our rooms. LGBT2Q people exist all genrs, all cultur, and relyg on your gaydar is a good start, but expandg your queer and trans cultural referenc will boost your abili.

Instagram and Twter make easier to fd other people wh the same terts, whether ’s hedgehogs or aerosol art, and there are so many homo-tastic hashtags. Try #QueerStyle, #BlackTransExcellence, #QueerFemme, #LbianMem, #BiLove, #GenrEuphoria, #Gaysian, #LGBTTikTok. Or, add your inty to your state, school, or profsn to fd #GayMichigan or #QueerMorehoe or #TransUtah or #PansexualUK and more.

GAY BT IENDS WHO POSED AS STRAIGHT FALLY MARRY THEIR REAL PARTNERS

That may be surprisg news if you’ve been raised a homophobic branch of your relig tradn, but I promise you—they’re out there, and they n’t wa to wele you (and you may fd really healg to brg your whole self to your fah tradn). Check out Unlikely Hikers, which specifilly wel and celebrat people who don’t f the classic Patagonia profile cludg fat folks and hikers of lour; Venture Out Project, which is n by and explicly wel trans people; Gay SCUBA Week and Queer Paddlers; and basilly what I’m sayg is that if you want to be out and Out there are fely other ‘mos to do wh your area. If you’re newly sober or revery and tryg to avoid plac, people, or patterns that may not be healthy for you right now, a gay AA or other revery meetg might be a double-w for you: support on your path and a boost for your new social life.

” or “What a great lor story, ” ’s extremely likely they’re sayg HELLO I AM ALSO QUEER AND/OR TRANS AND I WOULD LIKE TO TALK TO don’t be fooled if someone don’t “look gay. We’re everywhere and we look like anyone and also please don’t ntribute to the ia that there’s one way to look gay, ol? Gay bt iends who posed as straight uple to keep their sexualy secret om RAF boss hold jot weddg as they fally marry their REAL partnersGail Langan and Mark Sully grew close 32 years ago while servg RAFThey kept sexualy hidn at the time fear of beg kicked out of forceNow they have married their same-sex partners at timate Cornish venueUK ernment lifted the ban on gays servg armed force 18 years ago Published: 13:15 BST, 4 Augt 2018 | Updated: 13:16 BST, 4 Augt 2018.

10 GREAT BRISH GAY FILMS

Two gay bt iends who pretend to be a straight uple when was illegal to be gay the ary have married their real same-sex partners a jot Langan and Mark Sully grew close 32 years ago while servg the Royal Air Force kept their sexualy hidn at the time fear of beg kicked out of the force. Gail (right) married Olga at the jot weddg Cornwall this yearBut now - 18 years after the UK ernment lifted the ban on lbians, gays and bisexuals servg the armed forc - they are gog public wh their, 52, and Mark, 55, had an timate jot weddg Cornwall on April 21 to their same-sex partners Olga Tomic and Barry Metters. Happy upl: Olga, Gail, Barry and Mark (left to right) on their weddg day at a picturque Cornish venueGail and Mark met the RAF 1985 and agreed to allow people to believe they were boyiend and me out as gay aged 23 and Mark aged 28.

''To now have gay relatnships accepted the forc is liberatg for all those who n now be accepted for who they are, ' said Gail. This may e as a surprise om a untry where male homosexualy was illegal until as recently as 1967, and where gay marriage ntu to ffle right-wgers, swivel-eyed or otherwise. We’ve narrowed down the list to films easily available on DVD, although honourable mentn mt go to the über-rare Two Gentlemen Sharg (1969), a swgg slice of the 60s that hted at terracial homosexualy.

GAY-IENDS ALL CLASSIFIEDS LONDON

Sign up to BFI Flare emailsGet the latt #BFIFlare news and ticket release list should really be a Top 11 – the omissn of Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971), the first Brish film to feature a gay kiss, is borrle excable. Tom Shkolnik’s betifully observed The Comedian (2012), which a possibly gay, possibly bi thirtysomethg (Edward Hogg) tri to make as a standup the pal, also narrowly missed cln.

A few d homosexuals n be found  Aled Hchck’s early work (check out the swishy drsmaker 1925’s The Pleasure Garn), while Ivor Novello’s films play up the flamboyant star’s androgyny, playg very odd, allegedly heterosexual men  The Lodger (1926) and The Man whout Dire (1923). The ma tr may be straight, but the mera’s love of Pl Robon’s torso – the film was directed and produced by gay men – hts at an even more taboo love story.

HOW TO MAKE IENDS AS A GAY MAN

Although ma at a time when homosexualy was unmentnable on screen, Hale’s gtur and waspish livery clearly the character as not the marryg kd. Victim (1961)Dirk Bogar, an actor who never acknowledged the mours of his homosexualy durg his lifetime, took a real reer risk playg a lawyer who, followg a strg of blackmail attempts agast gay men, begs to realise his own sexualy. Ma when gay sex was illegal the UK, uld have been a reer-er, but stead saw him progrs om matee idol rol to meatier arthoe fare.

Victim was released four years after the publitn of the Wolfenn report, a paper which remend that male homosexualy no longer be regard as a crimal offence.

It took another 10 years before partial crimalisatn took effect wh the Sexual Offenc act 1967, which allowed homosexual acts, private, between two men over the age of 21 – many feel Basil Dearn’s film helped liberalise attus and pave the way towards tolerance towards gay people.

GAY MEN AND STRAIGHT MEN AS FRIENDS

The Leather Boys (1964)The Brish ‘kchen sk’ dramas, foced around workg-class liv, that prevailed the late 50s and early 60s ocsnally ntaed sympathetic gay characters, such as Murray Melv’s stunt  A Taste of Honey (1961) and Cicely Courtneidge’s ageg actor  The L-shaped Room (1962).

A newlywed (Col Campbell) havg marriage problems fds pe through mararie wh a biker gang – and don’t realise that his dynamic and fatly misogynist bt iend (Dudley Sutton) is gay. The last scene, set a gay bar, featur a nga le of unlikable stereotyp, but at least Sutton across more sympathetilly than Ra Thgham, playg Campbell’s shrewish wife. Sebastiane (1976)Few films outsi gay porn feature as much male flh as Sebastiane, the feature but of Derek Jarman (-directed by Pl Hums).

Some praised for s realistic portrayal of a gay teacher unsuccsfully seekg a lovg relatnship the newly sexually liberated clubs of London. Now Nighthawks n be re-evaluated as an valuable time psule of the late 1970s gay scene, the liberated perd between crimalisatn and the outbreak of AIDS.

THE TOP LGBTQ+ DATG S AND APPS: 14 BT GAY DATG S

Ken Robertson is very good as the antihero, pecially the film’s bt scene, when the teacher out to his homophobic class and nonts their prejudic.

What uld be more crowd-pleasg than a gay love story between a Pakistani immigrant and an ex-Natnal Front member?

EAST LONDON GAY MEN'S MEETUP

Homosexualy is jt one of the topics vered  Hanif Kureishi’s amb, Osr-nomated screenplay, which also tak on racism, culture clash, and the state of Thatcher’s Bra. The murr of a gay man triggers an avalanche of trouble for two black pirate rad DJs, one of whom starts a relatnship wh a whe, gay punk.

Betiful Thg (1996)This favoure remas one of the sweett of all gay films, tellg the story of two troubled boys – one bullied at school, the other at home – who fd love each other’s arms. It’s a super play, but the film jt about tmps , thanks pecially to the performanc – Glen Berry retired om actg, Stt Neal played another gay role  The Bill, while the scene-stealg Lda Henry beme a fixture on Bad Girls and EastEnrs.

BT GAY DATG APPS FOR HOOKUPS, RELATNSHIPS, AND EVERYTHG BETWEEN

In a rare moment of sany, wrer Bret Easton Ellis tweeted that “ might be the greatt film about gay men ever ma”. Sgle mid forti gay Male full-time employment lookg for flat or hoe share that is fortable wh nudy and LGBT iendly. Very few gay men seek out and then read articl about lonels unls they’ve e to the realisatn that they’re lonely.

GAY IEND

If our fai do not accept for beg gay, we n build fay-like support stctur wh people through the bonds of iendship. For the gay man wantg to make iends, the temptatn is to want to put all the effort on to the send and third pillars.