‘I fell love wh a gay man and nearly broke me’

I WAS SURE I WAS GAY – UNTIL I FELL LOVE WH MY BT FEMALE IEND

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I asked a gay worker to set me up wh one of his girl iends, I set my Tr rults to female, I spent more time wh my lbian roommate.

I uldn’t say was bee he was gay, ” said the Davidson, om Sydney, says she’s not the first straight woman to fall for a gay bloke. People ask, uldn’t we tell we were fallg lovg wh a gay man?

But both refer to the same thg — straight women who have strong, often highly tense and mutually supportive, relatnships wh gay men. The days, straight woman and gay men who get along would probably jt be lled mat, but “handbags” were often vol and visual supports of the homosexual muny when discrimatn — legal and otherwise — was still rampant. “So many women have acted as protectors, cheerlears and supporters of their gay iends, but always the background, ” Ms Davidson says.

‘HE BROKE MY HEART TO A BILLN PIEC’: WHEN A STRAIGHT WOMAN FALLS LOVE WH A GAY MAN

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“Straight alli, and particularly women, are a val part of the fight for gay rights.

GAY MEN HAVG SEX WH WOMEN?

Her grandmother was a “beard”, or fake girliend, to gay men she was close to; while her mother helped when the muny was beg vastated by AIDS. “I’d been raised a fay wh lots of gay men so I should have known better than anyone (not to fall love wh one), ” Ms Davidson says. “A gay man wasn’t a shy unirn I’d never seen before.

“I know a woman who was a relatnship for 17 years before he me out as gay. ”Most of the time a gay bt iend might be obliv if his female iend has fallen for him.

But some gay men actually enurage , she says. “The wonrful thg about gay men is they talk to me like I’m a person bee they don’t want to get your knickers. “Wh a uple of months he was htg the gay bars.

STRAIGHT WOMEN AND THEIR GAY HBANDS

”Ms Davidson says straight men uld learn a thg or two om their gay brothers.

“I kd of knew (he was gay) and I kd of didn’t. “I’m gog to try not to fall love wh any more gay men. To answer your qutn plaly wh the rmatn that you’ve shared, ’s likely that some gay men do have sexual relatnships wh women to hi their te orientatn, due to fear of g out.