Kev Spacey said he was 'prsured' to e out as gay after beg acced of sexual misnduct.
Contents:
- I’VE INTIFIED AS GAY FOR YEARS. NOT ANYMORE.
- CAN SOMEONE BE HOMOSEXUAL AND NOT GAY?
- KEV SPACEY FELT ‘PRSURED TO E OUT AS GAY’ AFTER SEXUAL MISNDUCT ALLEGATNS
- HOW TO ACCEPT THAT YOU ARE GAY
- CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
- AM I GAY, STRAIGHT, LBIAN, BISEXUAL OR LGBTQ+?
I’VE INTIFIED AS GAY FOR YEARS. NOT ANYMORE.
* still not as gay as you *
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.
CAN SOMEONE BE HOMOSEXUAL AND NOT GAY?
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.
KEV SPACEY FELT ‘PRSURED TO E OUT AS GAY’ AFTER SEXUAL MISNDUCT ALLEGATNS
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.
HOW TO ACCEPT THAT YOU ARE 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.
CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
So when we therapists are nonted wh male clients, often married on, who e to wh ep nflicts about their sexual attractn to other men, we often fd that they are willg to e the word “homosexual, ” but chew the “gay” label. Bee “gay” impli an embracg of the gay liftyle — gay bars, gay pri paras, perhaps multiple sex partners, or even anonymo sex.
AM I GAY, STRAIGHT, LBIAN, BISEXUAL OR LGBTQ+?
Unfortunately, much of our natn’s polics have long exacerbated the problem as well, shamg and vilifyg homosexualy, leadg legns of men stgglg wh sexual inty to ternalize their homophobia. For example, gay men the Mormon fah are moral nflict. Durg the’90s, I beme a “gay-affirmative therapist.