Tell that special someone how you feel wh the spirg gay love quot about relatnships, romance, and that feelg you get when you're together.
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GAY LOVE, STRAIGHT SENSE
Whether you're a gay relatnship, a lbian love, bisexual, polyamoro, or anythg else between, the LGBT quot about love rerce that all typ of relatnships are servg of love. * gay love is same love *
” — Edgar Allan PoeRELATED: Why Havg A Csh On Your Friends Is Much Harr When You're Gay11. “Equaly is the prime rib of Ameri, but bee I’m gay, I don’t get to enjoy the greatt cut of meat my untry has to offer.
“Whether we’re gay or straight don’t matter. “You don’t have to be gay to be a supporter you jt have to be human. “The Lord is my Shepherd and he knows I’m gay.
Comg of age wh “a very nfed inty, ” wrer Andrew Solomon was certa he had to make a choice between creatg a fay and beg gay. The margalizatn that attend growg up homosexual saw ank exprsn Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Inty, his 2012 exploratn of how parents raise children who are markedly different om themselv any one of a number of ways.
30 AFFECTNATE GAY LOVE QUOT
” He now liv openly as a gay spoe and father. Gay men and lbian women typilly report siarly tortured experienc reckong wh their own sexualy, nstantly lculatg the sts of hidg or revealg one of the most fg arcs of beg, self-policg their behavr for mannerisms that might betray their clatns before they themselv are prepared to acknowledge them. It’s a ttament to urage that so many eventually do, spe the possibily of rejectn om those clost to them and a self-hatred ternalized om a wir culture that still often revil homosexualy.
For Solomon, as for many gay men and lbian women, the very stggle to be and to love on their own terms is reemg. Straight or gay, we all have a sire to be eply known, yet often fear that some private flaw mak ultimately unlovable.
Some, however, reflect the unique social legacy of homosexual partnerships. And some stem om doublg, the pound dose of a sgle genr, which sometim brgs out the bt partners (emotnal openns among lbians)—and sometim the worst (domance stggl between gay men, emotnal enmhment lbians). When partners don’t have to divi up rol by genr, they are also ee to share rol, and many gay upl do, reports Boston psychologist Richard Miller.