If You're A Gay Man Who's Been Ghosted, Matthew Dempsey Has Some Advice For You: WATCH - Towleroad Gay News

Contents:

• GAY GHOSTG IS AN EPIMIC
• THE CARDAL S OF GAY GHOSTG
• FELLOW GAYS, LET’S STOP GHOSTG EACH OTHER
• IF YOU’RE A GAY MAN WHO’S BEEN GHOSTED, MATTHEW DEMPSEY HAS SOME ADVICE FOR YOU: WATCH
• MAJORY OF GAYS ARE POSSSED BY GHOSTS, SO-CALLED STUDY SAYS
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• ESTATE AGENT JAILED FOR VIC ATTACK ON TWO GAY MEN HOLDG HANDS
• ALL ABOUT THE SPOOKY CONCEPT OF GHOSTG: EXPLORG GHOSTG BEHAVR AMONG GAY RELATNSHIPS
• GAY BROS HELP ADMTED GHOSTER BEE MORE ACUNTABLE

GAY GHOSTG IS AN EPIMIC

There's a bter irony that as gays we mand a level of rpect om the straight world, but we often don't give each other that same rpect.

THE CARDAL S OF GAY GHOSTG

Blum, MFT is a licensed psychotherapist and the founr of the Gay Therapy Center, the largt private therapy provir for the LGBTQ muny the US, wh offic San Francis, Los Angel, New York, Washgton D. Milo throws $150K engagement “sodomy stone” to the ocean to prove he’s now ex-gay.

You n hi wh exceptnal ease a society that mak every sgle space one for gay muny is far more clstrophobic.

FELLOW GAYS, LET’S STOP GHOSTG EACH OTHER

Gay meetg spac are almost exclively nightlife venu. Another outlet noted 151 gay clubs had shut sce the lennium.

It’s mon knowledge that ghostg is mon, pecially the gay datg world. I matched wh a guy on Tr (bee where else are gay men gog to meet durg a panmic? That wasn’t my first time beg ghosted and I’m certaly not the only gay man who has been.

IF YOU’RE A GAY MAN WHO’S BEEN GHOSTED, MATTHEW DEMPSEY HAS SOME ADVICE FOR YOU: WATCH

I may have been extreme my emotns, but I’m not the only gay man who has lapsed to a prsn due to datg.

MAJORY OF GAYS ARE POSSSED BY GHOSTS, SO-CALLED STUDY SAYS

I have many gay iends that have exprsed siar emotns.

Not only are racism, body shamg, impossible standards and unrealistic expectatns prevalent the gay muny, but some gay men don’t nsir each other’s feelgs eher. In fact, a Pew Rearch Study found that adults who intify as lbian, gay or bisexual are more likely than straight people to experience harassment, such as prsurg for sex, unwanted touchg and unsolicted pictur when g datg s and apps. 4% of the populatn intifi as gay.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

Sce we’re a small mory wh a limed datg pool, gay people are even more likely to e datg apps. A 2019 survey found that gay and bisexual people were more likely than straight people to experience ghostg — nearly 43% — and ghost someone themselv — around 28%.

The fact that ghostg has been normalized gay culture is ridiculo. Fellow gays, we have to be hont wh each other, know what we’re lookg for, and stop beg overly picky. Psychotherapist Matthew Dempsey talks about gay ghostg a new vio that begs wh his own experience of havg a love tert vanish to th air.

Acrdg to a bizarre article published on the Spirual Science Rearch Foundatn's webse (which at the time of wrg has sce been taken down), an overwhelmg majory of gay people are, apparently, posssed by some form of ghostly spirs -- 85 percent, to be exact -- and the spirs are the drivg force behd our gayns. "The ma reason behd the gay orientatn of some men is that they are posssed by female ghosts, and the female ghost them is attracted to other men, " the Spirual Science Rearch Foundatn wrote s sham study, as reported by PkNews.

ESTATE AGENT JAILED FOR VIC ATTACK ON TWO GAY MEN HOLDG HANDS

Acrdg to PkNews, the article also claims that queer people are more prone to "murro" thoughts, paradg around naked wh each other, and g "bad words, " bee the ghouls that posss them make them "more sceptible to beg fluenced by negative energi, which give them thoughts to enurage them to display their homosexualy a shamels and even aggrsive manner.

ALL ABOUT THE SPOOKY CONCEPT OF GHOSTG: EXPLORG GHOSTG BEHAVR AMONG GAY RELATNSHIPS

Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. Per Outsports, as of September 2022, there have only ever been 16 players NFL history to publicly e out as gay or bisexual.

Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player league history to announce that he is gay 2021.

GAY BROS HELP ADMTED GHOSTER BEE MORE ACUNTABLE

Per Outsports, Maxen is the “first publicly out male ach a major Amerin men’s pro sports league, ” wh WNBA ach Curt Miller, who publicly me out to the media as gay 2015, also a publicly out male ach an Amerin profsnal sports league. Bisexual men are perceived to sound more mascule than men who are straight, acrdg to a study of Atralian subjects.Amics at the Universy of Sydney pared the voic of gay, straight and bisexual men a study volvg 160 people.In the rearch led by clil psychologist Jam Morandi, people were reced to analyse the voic of 60 men, 20 of whom were gay, 20 straight and 20 bisexual. They were then asked to rate the men on their sexual orientatn g a sle om zero (exclively heterosexual) to 10 (exclively homosexual).Listeners were also asked to rate each man’s perceived level of femy or masculy the voic on a siar sle.The men volved the study were asked to rerd themselv on a smartphone recg the first two l of the Atralian natnal anthem.Voice sampl were then modified to remove any background noise while volume levels were ma the same to ensure nsistency.Rults om the study showed listeners uld distguish between gay and straight men’s voic wh an accuracy of 62 per cent, apparently nsistent wh prev rearch.However, the study participants uld not terme any differenc between bisexual and straight men’s voic wh any gree of accuracy.

The thors said their rearch showed bisexual men’s voic were perceived as beg more exclively attracted to women pared wh both gay and straight men’s voic.Bisexual men’s voic were rated as more mascule than both gay and straight men’s voic.Rearchers claimed the abily to intify a man’s bisexual inty om his voice alone uld have cril social implitns such as helpg to rce feelgs of alienatn.‘Voice may unter visibily many bisexuals feel’An abstract of the study, tled Can listeners tect if a man is bisexual om his voice alone, reads: “The prent study examed whether bisexual men n be intified om their voic ak to how gay men n be intified on their voice alone.“If this is the se, voice may be an important target of discrimatn on the one hand but may also unter the visibily many bisexuals feel (if their bisexual inti n be apprehend by their voice alone, whout explic disclosure required).“The fdgs may also she light on whether bisexual male voic, like gay male voic, differ om straight voic terms of their genr non-nformy – a qutn that to date has not been examed.”But amics noted the rearch was limed on the grounds all men who participated the study are Atralian, which may not be reflected among wir cultur.And the thors nced the study did not ntrol for the rerdg environment or microphone-to-mouth distance, which uld have affected the qualy of the voice sampl.The thors said the fdgs suggted that while the voic of bisexual men the sample were perceived as more mascule and attracted to femal, listeners did not associate this imprsn wh bisexualy.As a rult, while bisexual men may appear to be at lower risk of facg voice-based intifitn and discrimatn than gay men, they may often be mistaken as beg straight.The study was published the Journal of Sex Rearch. Read ahead to learn more about ghostg, specifilly wh the gay muny. This gui explor everythg you have to know about ghostg as a gay man.