3 Ways to Accept That You Are Gay - wikiHow

Contents:

• HOW TO COPE WHEN YOU'RE GAY AND LONELY
• 5 REASONS IT’S GOOD TO BE GAY AND SGLE
• GAY, MIDDLE-AGED, AND LONELY AS HELL
• SAVAGE LOVE: I AM A LONELY, AGG GAY MAN; WHAT SHOULD I DO?
• A GAY MAN AT MIDLIFE PONRS BEG LONELY AND ‘INVISIBLE’
• HOW TO ACCEPT THAT YOU ARE GAY

HOW TO COPE WHEN YOU'RE GAY AND LONELY

Part of realizg you're gay, or bi, or trans, or non-bary, or anythg other than cisgenr and heterosexual is acceptg you’re different—and somewhat separated—om the majory. Here he shar his journey to overe the sense of isolatn he felt growg up gay a small U.

5 REASONS IT’S GOOD TO BE GAY AND SGLE

At the time, there were no real gay role mols except for Graham Norton and Jack om Dawson's Creek—and I certaly didn't intify wh him bee I wasn't a football player.

GAY, MIDDLE-AGED, AND LONELY AS HELL

I felt like I was pletely on my rried on until I was 16, when I started gog out to gay bars my hometown.

SAVAGE LOVE: I AM A LONELY, AGG GAY MAN; WHAT SHOULD I DO?

For the first time I've been able to form a good group of gay iends and create my own support work. I'd go on gay chatrooms but that was jt a facels nversatn wh someone who uld have been anyone. I thk if I'd had iends who were gay when I was growg up, my life would have been so different.

I now know there were other kids at my school who were gay, but they didn't e out till much later.

Only a few of the nam of the gay men this article are real. For years I’ve noticed the divergence between my straight iends and my gay iends.

A GAY MAN AT MIDLIFE PONRS BEG LONELY AND ‘INVISIBLE’

In our lifetime, the gay muny has ma more progrs on legal and social acceptance than any other mographic group history.

HOW TO ACCEPT THAT YOU ARE GAY

As recently as my own adolcence, gay marriage was a distant aspiratn, somethg newspapers still put sre quot.

Public support for gay marriage has climbed om 27 percent 1996 to 61 percent 2016.