From a stunt the 60s for whom sex was illegal to a recent arrival on the gay scene, four men and a non-bary queer person on how their liv – and sex liv – have changed
Contents:
- WHY BEG GAY IS THE BT THG THAT EVER HAPPENED TO ME
- HOW TO ACCEPT THAT YOU ARE GAY
- ‘GAY LIFE IS BETTER NOW. ABSOLUTELY’: FIVE GENERATNS ON G OUT AND WHAT ME NEXT
WHY BEG GAY IS THE BT THG THAT EVER HAPPENED TO ME
I never thought I’d say – I ed to hate beg gay * being gay just got better *
— cludg Seth Walsh, 13, and Billy Lus, 15 — spired the gay advice lumnist Dan Savage and his now-hband, Terry Miller, to do somethg. 21, 2010, Savage and Miller talked about the bullyg and rejectn they experienced as gay teens, and how life got better for them the years after high school. The CDC’s Youth Risk Behavr Surveillance System recently found that lbian, gay and bisexual teens are more than four tim more likely to attempt suici, and that transgenr stunts are at a siarly high risk pared to their non-LGBTQ peers.
HOW TO ACCEPT THAT YOU ARE GAY
S., 72 percent of Amerins said homosexualy should be accepted, pared to 49 percent 2007, acrdg to the Pew Rearch Center.
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‘GAY LIFE IS BETTER NOW. ABSOLUTELY’: FIVE GENERATNS ON G OUT AND WHAT ME NEXT
I ed to hate beg gay.
The clu ee-thkg and sexually exprsive straight women, who cherish their gay iends as people around whom they won’t be judged.
I also have a special bond wh my gay iends, people who’ve been through siar experienc to me and travelled a siar journey towards self-acceptance. I even have a few straight male iends, men who enjoy gay pany as an opportuny to ee themselv om the prsure to nform to a toxic ia of masculy that n rtrict their dividualy and supprs their a gay man, I feel far ls rtricted by the expectatn that men should behave a certa way. While some more tradnally-md gay men may fd this limg, I’ve found liberatg; ’s eed me up to pursue my own creative projects.