I owe my happs to the queer iends I ma. And to my younger self who hated beg gay: all is fiven, says i newspaper lumnist Eleanor Margolis
Contents:
- ‘HE BROKE MY HEART TO A BILLN PIEC’: WHEN A STRAIGHT WOMAN FALLS LOVE WH A GAY MAN
- ‘I FELL LOVE WH A GAY MAN AND NEARLY BROKE ME’
- I WAS SURE I WAS GAY – UNTIL I FELL LOVE WH MY BT FEMALE IEND
- I’M THE GIRL WHO FELL IN LOVE WH A GAY GUY
- IT TOOK ME A LONG TIME, BUT I’VE FALLY FALLEN LOVE WH BEG GAY
- I’M A STRAIGHT WOMAN WHO MARRIED A GAY MAN
‘HE BROKE MY HEART TO A BILLN PIEC’: WHEN A STRAIGHT WOMAN FALLS LOVE WH A GAY MAN
Sam Wilkson me out as gay at 18 years old, then realised he was pansexual after fallg love wh his female bt iend. * girl fall in love with a gay *
I uldn’t say was bee he was gay, ” said the Davidson, om Sydney, says she’s not the first straight woman to fall for a gay bloke. People ask, uldn’t we tell we were fallg lovg wh a gay man?
‘I FELL LOVE WH A GAY MAN AND NEARLY BROKE ME’
Unrstandg and navigatg your csh A csh is somethg special, and you should enjoy havg one! But when that csh is the same genr as you are, n be a b strsful stead. Do this mean you're gay? Should you tell them?... * girl fall in love with a gay *
But both refer to the same thg — straight women who have strong, often highly tense and mutually supportive, relatnships wh gay men. The days, straight woman and gay men who get along would probably jt be lled mat, but “handbags” were often vol and visual supports of the homosexual muny when discrimatn — legal and otherwise — was still rampant. “So many women have acted as protectors, cheerlears and supporters of their gay iends, but always the background, ” Ms Davidson says.
I WAS SURE I WAS GAY – UNTIL I FELL LOVE WH MY BT FEMALE IEND
“Straight alli, and particularly women, are a val part of the fight for gay rights.
Her grandmother was a “beard”, or fake girliend, to gay men she was close to; while her mother helped when the muny was beg vastated by AIDS.
“I’d been raised a fay wh lots of gay men so I should have known better than anyone (not to fall love wh one), ” Ms Davidson says. “A gay man wasn’t a shy unirn I’d never seen before. “I know a woman who was a relatnship for 17 years before he me out as gay.
I’M THE GIRL WHO FELL IN LOVE WH A GAY GUY
”Most of the time a gay bt iend might be obliv if his female iend has fallen for him.
IT TOOK ME A LONG TIME, BUT I’VE FALLY FALLEN LOVE WH BEG GAY
But some gay men actually enurage , she says.
“The wonrful thg about gay men is they talk to me like I’m a person bee they don’t want to get your knickers.
I’M A STRAIGHT WOMAN WHO MARRIED A GAY MAN
“Wh a uple of months he was htg the gay bars. ”Ms Davidson says straight men uld learn a thg or two om their gay brothers. “I kd of knew (he was gay) and I kd of didn’t.