Rock and Roll legend Ltle Richard is shockg fans wh a new announcement: 'I'm not gay no more!'
Contents:
- I’VE INTIFIED AS GAY FOR YEARS. NOT ANYMORE.
- CELEBRI WHO HAVE LEFT A GAY LIFTYLE
- I LIKE GUYS BUT I DON’T WANT TO BE GAY. HOW DO I STOP BEG GAY?
- HE’S BEEN DELIVERT?! LTLE RICHARD HTS HE’S NO LONGER GAY
I’VE INTIFIED AS GAY FOR YEARS. NOT ANYMORE.
Bulli teased me for beg gay when I was younger, but when a six-year-old boy lls another six-year-old boy gay, he means “weird” or “gross, ” not “has sex wh men. Kids are not gay or straight, they’re jt kids.
I wasn’t gay or straight. Why, then, do adults who knew me as a child sist that I was gay all along? I felt prsured to pick a label and stick wh , and for a long time “gay” worked bee I didn’t thk about much.
CELEBRI WHO HAVE LEFT A GAY LIFTYLE
But the last year or two, I’ve started to rethk my relatnship to the label “gay. I hooked up wh trans and nonbary people and stopped scribg myself as gay, preferrg to e the more clive tchall “queer.
I LIKE GUYS BUT I DON’T WANT TO BE GAY. HOW DO I STOP BEG GAY?
Often when I tell some people that I’m distancg myself om gay, they immediately suggt I intify as bisexual, or pansexual. I need somethg that means “mostly gay but not fully mted and open to other possibili, ” but, alas, such a niche label has yet to be imaged.
HE’S BEEN DELIVERT?! LTLE RICHARD HTS HE’S NO LONGER GAY
When I was six, the boys who teased me labelled me as gay.
The adults my life labelled me as gay. And for a while after g out, “gay” worked fe.