Why do my iends thk I'm gay, even though I'm not? And how do I stop people thkg that I'm gay? - Quora

Contents:

• PEOPLE THK I'M GAY... BUT I'M NOT
• ASK POLLY: WHY DO PEOPLE ALWAYS THK I’M GAY?
• AM I GAY?
• HOW TO ACCEPT THAT YOU ARE GAY
• HOW DO I KNOW IF I AM GAY? SIGNS YOU ARE GAY
• WHY DO EVERYONE THK I'M GAY?!

PEOPLE THK I'M GAY... BUT I'M NOT

Why do my iends thk I'm gay, even though I'm not? And how do I stop people thkg that I'm gay? ”Dear Polly, I fally garnered the urage to wre to you about my particular problem, and I hope you n shed some of your wisdom on the sce the 6th gra, people have been askg me if I’m gay.

Back then, the other kids thought any person who was any b different om them was gay, and attached a bad meang to the word. I found a great girl sophomore year and we dated up until senr year, but the askg still ntued, some of which was g om my clost high school, I tried as hard as I uld to rid myself of the label people had given me.

It also didn’t really help my se that my bt iend me out that he was gay senr year. However, people I had barely e to ntact wh began walkg up to me and askg if I was gay.

ASK POLLY: WHY DO PEOPLE ALWAYS THK I’M GAY?

And if nothg, am I really gay? Some of the women are hopg you’ll be the gay nfidant of their dreams, or maybe they want to be the one who gracefully hers you out of the closet. (Intertgly, if you’re a women, the same behavrs will make people thk you’re gay.

You have to five yourself for not livg up to your ternal fantasy of what you “should” ask, “If there’s nothg I n do to nvce people I’m not gay, then am I really gay?

AM I GAY?

You uld rent When I Knew, the documentary where gay men and women expla how they figured out they were or no duck, somethg feels unsettled to you about your inty right now. And sce jog the fandoms I’ve been exposed to some very explic smut, het and gay. ) It’s rarer than beg gay or trans, so I feel sort of alienated and like I’d be makg a fs over nothg.

Everyone I meet thks I’m gay.

So ’s been a mon trend ever sce I was highschool that everyone always asks one way or another “is he gay” or “ are you gay” and ’s gettg irratg. Gay - While this adjective has historilly scribed men who are attracted to other men, the term now is ed to refer to anyone who experienc romantic, emotnal, or physil attractn to people of the same genr.

HOW TO ACCEPT THAT YOU ARE GAY

Sce genr inty and sexual orientatn are separate, transgenr people n intify as straight, gay, lbian, bisexual, etc. Why do people always assume I'm gay.

I'm sure people thk I'm gay jt bee of my way of talkg they thk 's gay Its not dog any gtur or somethg 's the way I talk and probably my clothg.

I'm wearg rgo pants and some oversized hoodi and t-shirts but I thk 's really ol though people won't stop assumg that I'm gay. I'm a begner on swimmg I ed to be a swimmer a uple years ago but I had to rtart and I gus if I got mcl or abs and cht I'll probably won't be seen as gay but still annoys the fact of how people thk and im probably sure that the people wear the "trendy" clothg and not trash clothg like me.

HOW DO I KNOW IF I AM GAY? SIGNS YOU ARE GAY

Do other people assume you are gay although you are straight?

Why do people thk im gay? So at my school some people thk I'm gay. I don't act gay at all or anythg.

I mean I'm kda emo but that's don't mean I'm gay. People assume that I'm gay?

WHY DO EVERYONE THK I'M GAY?!

Jt to make thgs clear, I mean no ill-will to my gay bros out there. Hontly, I don’t really re if another du thks that I’m gay and don’t bother me. It do seem to me, however, that appearg gay n turn off a lot of women, the sense that they might thk “oh why should I even talk to him he’s clearly gay and won’t be terted”.

Another time, a (actually gay) iend of me ved me to a party along wh 3-4 other straight guys he knew. None of them knew me before and had no reason to assume I was gay other than my appearance, I gus.

I assume that bi women are primarily terted bi men so would make sense to me that they would try to go for a guy that looks gay. I don’t wear or do anythg that I generally thk of as beg stereotypilly “gay” I have a short-ish unrcut hairstyle. Most people the LGBTQ+ muny know om experience that acceptg your sexualy will lead to your beg a happier, more open this gui, the term gay has been ed to clu all forms of non-heterosexual attractn, whether that be people who are lbian, gay, bisexual, queer, pansexual, or otherwise not straight.