How To Make Gay Friends: An LBGT Friendship Gui — Skip the Small Talk

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HOW TO DEAL WHEN YOUR BT FRIEND IS GAY

Heterosexual and gay men n heal and grow as a rult of their iendships. * being gay for a friend *

You may already know that your iend is gay, however, 's important to let them actually say to you. " If you want to talk about your iend to a parent or guardian, try askg "Would you be okay wh me mentng that you're gay to my parents if me up, or would you prefer that I keep quiet?

How do you know if you’re gay? Remember, beg gay don't change your iend's personaly. Do beg gay nflict wh your relig beliefs?

If you then don't have the nvictn that beg gay is natural and good, you may want to rensir the iendship. Maybe you're over the moon and you'll not only march gay pri paras, but you want to anise some right now!

GAY MEN AND STRAIGHT MEN AS FRIENDS

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Acceptance n make a huge different the liv of LGBTQIA (Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer, Intersex, and Asexual) people. Your gay iend will need all the support he or she n get.

HOW TO HAVE A GAY FRIEND

Heterosexual and gay men n heal and grow as a rult of their iendships. * being gay for a friend *

Article SummaryXIt might e as a b of a shock to fd out your bt iend is gay, but by supportg them and givg yourself time to get ed to , your iendship n be jt like was.

It probably took a lot of urage for your iend to e out as gay, so tell them that you accept them for who they are to be a good iend.

You should also avoid tellg anyone else that your iend is gay, sce should be their cisn who knows. This all got me thkg about my own iendships and those of my gay male clients.

GAY MEN AND STRAIGHT MEN AS FRIENDS

There are lots of reasons why you might want to know if your iend is gay. There are some important thgs that you have to unrstand about this suatn before gog forward, however. Someone's sexualy is highly plex and highly... * being gay for a friend *

The bonds between gay men and straight women have been wrten about and featured popular media (i. Sex the Cy, Will and Grace), though a lot ls has been said about how gay and straight men regnize and negotiate the distct challeng, plitns, and rewards of their iendships. Acrdg to Garfield, among the many obstacl to male-male platonic timacy, fear of homosexualy looms large.

HOW TO TELL IF YOUR GUY FRIEND IS GAY

Straight men et that if they get too close, others will see them as gay; which their mds means feme (horrors! S., before there was such a thg as a gay inty, some straight men would, wh ltle shame, engage sexual ntact wh other men (ually allowg themselv to be fellated) when female partners were otherwise unavailable (see Gee Chncey’s semal book, Gay New York: Genr, Urban Culture, and the Makg of the Gay Male World 1890-1940) and there is good reason to believe this still occurs other untri and cultur. The mid 20th century this behavr beme associated wh gay inty, new at the time and seen as crimal and then sick.

HOW TO MAKE GAY FRIENDS: AN LBGT FRIENDSHIP GUI

As a rult of this behavr-inty lk, sexual ngrs between gay and straight men creased nsirably, or at least went unrground. Gay men have suffered physil, social, and psychologil abe at the hands of heterosexually intified mal who, thanks to homophobia and heterosexism, felt fully jtified flictg the terrors.

So 's no wonr hetero men would fear homosexualy and gay men particular.

HOW TO ACCEPT THAT YOU ARE GAY

This legacy of vlence, both physil and psychologil, flicted by straight men toward those of who are gay naturally fuels our utn and distst at the thought of beiendg them. In his book, Garfield scrib the stiff hugs he would receive om a gay iend. As turns out, the gay iend worried that if he hugged too closely his iend would thk he was g on to him.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* BEING GAY FOR A FRIEND

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