How to Cope When You're Gay and Lonely | GQ

Contents:

• AM I GAY IF I HAVE SAME SEX FANTASI?
• I’M A GOLFER, AND I’M GAY. GET OVER .
• SOME PEOPLE ARE GAY. GET OVER !
• HOW TO COPE WHEN YOU'RE GAY AND LONELY
• YES I'M GAY, GET OVER IT

AM I GAY IF I HAVE SAME SEX FANTASI?

Are you gay?

I’M A GOLFER, AND I’M GAY. GET OVER .

Sometim havg same-sex fantasi and not havg oppose-sex fantasi may mean a person is gay or bisexual. Sexual orientatn — beg gay, lbian, bisexual, or straight — is about sexual attractn.

Scientists are not yet sure exactly what someone to be lbian, gay, bisexual, or straight, but recent rearch shows that there are blogil factors place before birth that fluence people’s sexual orientatn.

SOME PEOPLE ARE GAY. GET OVER !

gay,. But when late last year microphon ught Reed utterg a gay slur after he missed a short putt, I was disheartened, if not all that surprised. The cint and ensug uproar ma me thk not only about the absence of openly gay players on the PGA Tour but also about my own experience as a gay golfer: Did I putt like a f-ggott?

Was I effectively a one-man gay pri para every time I teed up? And why are my partner David and I the only openly gay men we know wh a golf club membership? ” When our search began, we’d agreed not to disparage clubs that rejected for beg gay.

After all, private clubs are by nature self-selectg associatns, and while their homogeney has undoubtedly ntributed to their long-term stggl, we weren’t on a csa.

HOW TO COPE WHEN YOU'RE GAY AND LONELY

It was jt two om our home, we felt fortable there and already had a number of gay members, if not openly gay members. We knew that if we joed ANCC, we would be outliers, the only tly openly gay uple. Life as a Gay Member.

As new members, we felt that was important to be seen and to be active — to help mystify what means to be gay. Beg gay the golf world is an odd dynamic. I jt thk the notn of a gay uple on a golf trip was more than they uld procs.

(Note to those of you who like the ia of havg a token “gay iend”: We are not somethg to be llected. ) On the urse, we’ve enuntered no other major issu beyond the latent homophobia that permeat most sports.

YES I'M GAY, GET OVER IT

We’ve even helped a few closeted gay members e out at the club whout fear; one member, an Annapolis grad, told he didn’t add his partner as a “spoe” or “gut” member lt people learned that he was gay. We’ve also acted as a soundg board for members wh gay children.

Homosexualy always exists. Il y a une affiche anti-homophobe anglaise qui d, "Some people are gay. je dirais: "Certas gens sont gays.

ou: "Certas gens sont gays.