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Contents:

• I WAS BULLIED FOR BEG GAY AS A KID EVEN THOUGH I’M STRAIGHT
• TEEN BULLIED FOR BEG GAY: WHAT WOULD YOU DO?
• FEATURED STORI
• FEATURED FICTN
• THE HEARTBREAKG TE STORY OF THE GAY TEEN AND HIS DAD BEHD ‘JOE BELL’
• 'SMEAR THE QUEER': GAY STUNTS TELL THEIR STORI
• 'HE LOVED EVERYBODY': ALABAMA MUNY PICKS UP PIEC AFTER BULLIED GAY TEEN TAK HIS OWN LIFE, FAY SAYS
• GAY BULLYG, GAY BULLI AND DEALG WH GAY BASHG

I WAS BULLIED FOR BEG GAY AS A KID EVEN THOUGH I’M STRAIGHT

Content WarngI Was Bullied for Beg Gay as a Kid Even Though I’m StraightTread lightly—the ntent this narrative may be triggerg to some. It was somethg that add to my girl crazs, even as iends qutned, gently, whether I was gay or not for takg dance class. ” Like most childhood trmas, I don’t remember how long I sat there as three boys told me I looked like a girl and asked me if I was gay.

What began that day was six years of bullyg about my sexualy, lastg until I graduated high Is Was Like Beg Bullied for Beg Gay When I’m StraightI am a straight, cis-genred male, so the bullyg was about who I wasn’t, not about who I was.

TEEN BULLIED FOR BEG GAY: WHAT WOULD YOU DO?

I remember now, wh shame, beg mean to another kid my class, who had bad ae, bee I wanted the foc off my sbs, supposed “femy” and homosexualy. It was a toxic stew and would not abate high Bullyg Even Had My Parents Thkg I Was GayIn my first year high school, I had a specified lunch perd, as one do.

Are you gay? Your uncle was gay, ” my mom asked. “No, mom, It hurts so much bee I am not gay, bee ’s not who I am.

The posive mpaign “It Gets Better” for gay youth was te for me, too. I am still tryg to prove I am not gay, that I’m a straight, “appropriate” man.

FEATURED STORI

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Kupferman had a msage for those who, over two days of tapg Long Beach, wnsed our gay bullyg and did nothg to stop . Young lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr kids are at an creased risk of bullyg. I grew up gay and Jewish Massachetts.

FEATURED FICTN

I may have been dismissed as "the gay kid" by some, but I realize, pecially now, jt how fortunate I was to have the high school experience that I did.

THE HEARTBREAKG TE STORY OF THE GAY TEEN AND HIS DAD BEHD ‘JOE BELL’

" This other stunt happened to be the football quarterback, a guy who I'd always thought was super hot, timidatg, and likely perturbed by the fact that I was gay. They lled John "Gay Boy" and me "Gay Kid.

'SMEAR THE QUEER': GAY STUNTS TELL THEIR STORI

Even on the last day I attend that youth program, I rell the youth pastor givg a special sermon on "Why gays go to hell. I was g to terms wh my sexualy, and I was terrified of people knowg I was gay. I me out as gay my senr year of high school.

'HE LOVED EVERYBODY': ALABAMA MUNY PICKS UP PIEC AFTER BULLIED GAY TEEN TAK HIS OWN LIFE, FAY SAYS

And om that spac stronghold, I plotted how to beat the homophobia on mp.

GAY BULLYG, GAY BULLI AND DEALG WH GAY BASHG

And eventually, we lnched a mpaign lled Gay?