I like guys but I don’t want to be gay. How do I stop beg gay? – The Answer Wall

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.

CELEBRI WHO HAVE LEFT A GAY LIFTYLE

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. 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.

HE’S BEEN DELIVERT?! LTLE RICHARD HTS HE’S NO LONGER GAY

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. When I was six, the boys who teased me labelled me as gay. The adults my life labelled me as gay.