3 Ways to Accept That You Are Gay - wikiHow

Contents:

• HOW TO BEHAVE AROUND GAY PEOPLE IF YOU DON'T ACCEPT THEM
• HOW TO KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY
• I LIKE GAY MALE PORN, BUT GAY MEN REAL LIFE EAK ME OUT.
• I LIKE GUYS BUT I DON’T WANT TO BE GAY. HOW DO I STOP BEG GAY?
• HOW DO I KNOW I’M NOT REALLY GAY/STRAIGHT?
• HOW TO ACCEPT THAT YOU ARE GAY
• CAN SOMEONE BE HOMOSEXUAL AND NOT GAY?

HOW TO BEHAVE AROUND GAY PEOPLE IF YOU DON'T ACCEPT THEM

Others take the attu of "they're happy and not hurtg anyone, " so they don't md gay people. If you dislike or don't unrstand gay people, and you have gay people your life, here is how to handle . If you strongly dislike gay people, here is how to practice basic human cency.

HOW TO KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY

If you feel extremely negative towards gay people, the bt thg you n do is stay away. Studi show that gay people are no more likely to be child molters than straight folks are. Furthermore, gay dividuals aren't particularly any more promiscuo than straight people.

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I LIKE GAY MALE PORN, BUT GAY MEN REAL LIFE EAK ME OUT.

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

HOW DO I KNOW I’M NOT REALLY GAY/STRAIGHT?

" Y, there are some good reasons to rce your participatn gay bars (time, money, health). But you mt spend time wh others, whether that means havg a group of gay movie iends or queer gamers or playg on a gay sports team. This parable piece by lbian wrer Sarah Prager go through the lp of great gays who changed the world -- om ventor Alan Turg to Tchaikovsky, the poser, to the Renaissance pater and ventor Leonardo da Vci.

AIDS vastated muni of gay men and transgenr women, particularly gay men and trans women of lor. Read the numbers: In four years, more than 5, 596 people the Uned Stat had died of AIDS, many of them gay men and transgenr women.

HOW TO ACCEPT THAT YOU ARE GAY

But if I hadn't experienced all that adversy, I wouldn't be so furly proud to be gay. Fd a gay elr who's been where you are and r for your well-beg, someone who unrstands you and never pass judgment, someone who lets you make the mistak you need to make. Tmp has repeatedly attacked transgenr servicemembers, and gay men are still beg hunted and murred Chechnya.

CAN SOMEONE BE HOMOSEXUAL AND NOT GAY?

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