It's hard. We know. Maybe you're straight and found out (or know) your csh isn't, or maybe you're gay or bi and they're straight, which is a particularly difficult suatn. Eher way, 's your bt tert to get over ....
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- CAN SOMEONE BE HOMOSEXUAL AND NOT GAY?
- CAN A GAY MAN BE ATTRACTED TO A SPECIFIC GIRL, BUT NOT WOMEN GENERAL, AND STI
- AM I GAY/STRAIGHT? ?️? (FEMALE EDN)
- I'M A GAY GUY, BUT THERE'S THIS GIRL....
CAN SOMEONE BE HOMOSEXUAL AND NOT GAY?
* not gay but in love with a girl *
Maybe you're straight and found out (or know) your csh isn't, or maybe you're gay or bi and they're straight, which is a particularly difficult suatn. If you aren't straight, try lookg for people of patible orientatns at pri events, LGBT+ clubs, datg webs, or gay bars (if you're of drkg age).
CAN A GAY MAN BE ATTRACTED TO A SPECIFIC GIRL, BUT NOT WOMEN GENERAL, AND STI
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?... * not gay but in love with a girl *
I thk he might be unsure about his own sexual orientatn; maybe he partially liked but nnot get over the fact that he might be gay. Maybe he is gay, maybe he is not, or maybe he still don't know! What is the bt way for a gay man to get over a csh wh his straight, male personal traer?
Gay - attractn to the same genr. If she's not part of LGBT+ (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr) muny then don't imprs her, chanc are she's not to women. 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? ?️? (FEMALE EDN)
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.
I warned them of the pfalls of keepg their sexual orientatn secret: a life of creased prsn, pursug a secret life the gay unrground wh the danger of beg ught, how attemptg to supprs urg n often e them to bee even more obssed wh them.
I'M A GAY GUY, BUT THERE'S THIS GIRL....
Beg a gay man, I was tryg to brg them to where I was at. Durg this time, a man don’t see himself as gay, only homosexual.
The term gay is too affirmative, and they are not ready to accept . I have treated many men who are of Mormon, Orthodox Jewish, Catholic, and other religns who thk of homosexualy as a pathology. Their pa is excciatg, but I honor their bravery riskg losg everythg to ensure they have a qualy life as a gay man.
They may need, om time to time, to seek further therapy, but wh the right therapist, one who has thoroughly unrstood the dangers of such practic of “reparative therapy” which the therapist seeks to change the client’s sexual inty om gay to straight.