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THE MOMENT I KNEW I WAS GAY (HT: ’S NOT WHAT YOU THK.)WE ALL E TO THE REALIZATN ABOUT OUR SEXUALY AT DIFFERENT AG AND MOMENTS. THIS WAS ME.BRIAN ROWE·FOLLOWPUBLISHED P.S. I LOVE YOU·9 M READ·JAN 16, 2020--13SHAREPHOTO BY FREE-PHOTOS AT PIXABAYIT’S SO HARD TO SIGNATE A MOMENT TIME WHEN YOU REALIZE YOU ARE GAY.FROM MY EXPERIENCE, ’S SOMETHG I THOUGHT ABOUT OM A YOUNG AGE AND BASILLY… ALWAYS WAS.IT’S NOT LIKE I THOUGHT ABOUT GIRLS UNTIL ONE DAY TENTH GRA I UGHT A GLIMPSE OF A CUTE GUY AND POW, AN STANT, I WAS A HOMOSEXUAL.IT DIDN’T WORK THAT WAY FOR ME AT ALL.THROUGHOUT MY YEARS GROWG UP, I HAD CSH ON BOTH BOYS AND GIRLS PRETTY MUCH EQUALLY THROUGHOUT HIGH SCHOOL. MY CSH ON THE BOYS WERE ALWAYS A LTLE B STRONGER, FOR SURE. STRONG ENOUGH TO MAKE ME STRONGLY NSIR EARLY HIGH SCHOOL THAT I MIGHT BE GAY.BUT I LIKED GIRLS HERE AND THERE TOO, EVEN DATED ONE MIDDLE SCHOOL, AND ME VERY CLOSE TO DATG ONE HIGH SCHOOL.SO I DIDN’T E OUT OF THE CLOSET.

I grew up the 1980s and 1990s. Depictns of gay people were not flatterg. It seemed to me and om what my mother told me (She was a public health nurse.), all gay men had AIDS. The very few gay men I knew did die of AIDS, though was rarely spoken about. Other… * i remember when i was gay *

An extend fay I was worried to let slip I was feelg attractn toward late ’90s and early 2000s were fely a different I see boys high school walkg hand hand down the hallway, and that fills my heart wh such glee I n barely stand I was high school, I knew of exactly one gay kid the entire school. When I was high school, gay marriage was barely on the horizon. Homophobia surround for most of high school, I found myself qutng if beg attracted to other boys ma me broken a way.

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When I found out earlier this month, along wh the rt of the world, that one of my favore actors, Kal Penn, is a fellow gay man and now engaged to his long-time partner, I was so happy that he was openly livg his tth. "I realized I was gay last year, after 36 years durg the lockdown.

After seeg a gay guy I uld see myself , I started to qutn myself more. I me out as bisexual at 44 after my stepson me out as gay at 11 years old. "I moved to Ireland jt before the referendum that legalized gay marriage.

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Once the untry around me changed and I started seeg more gays the muny, felt safer, and I felt more fortable to e out.

I'd fantasize about men and watch gay porn.

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Part of me felt rponsible for her ath, as if beg bi or gay and my feelgs of regret somehow ed . I also realized that the label of ‘gay’ ma more sense for me than ‘bi.

But when I moved to California and saw more gay people, then I really started to realize . I gus that's the pot I f the fn of 'gay' rather than bi. I have a lot of stori about folks who were homophobic but me around to acceptg me and honorg me for beg a gay man, once they got to know me beyond what I do bed.

In the meantime, I kept watchg gay porn but wouldn't accept and felt guilty after jerkg off to . I me out to my wife many moons ago but took a long time to realize that prayg the gay away wasn’t workg.

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I’m a good place right now and share my home wh gay iends, as well as adult children. I basilly created my own gay muny. "I fally started serly qutng my early 40s and quickly realized I was gay.

Pl the ‘80s was not a particularly good time to be gay — I thk fear of AIDS was possibly one thg that had me nial.

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