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class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa edvONh body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p>Answer me this: How many tim have you turned around and realized that you’d actually been ltg after one of your iends, or that straight lleague who’s always so nice to you and offers to make you cups of ffee? How many tim have you sat spairg the quagmire that is unrequed love? If the answer is a lot, you’re not unique…you’re jt gay.</p><p>The feelgs of nfn are practilly a gay re of passage. Our adolcent years are spent ltg after our (maly straight) classmat who, if they knew that you’d had more than one wet dream about them that week alone, would’ve likely beaten the livg crap out of you. When we get olr, we hope that the nvenient feelgs will dissipate, bee the real world is nothg like high school and is actually filled wh ripe homosexuals who’ll lt after and love back. This is, unfortunately, only partially te, bee as adults those straight boys bee gay boys, and so, while there might be a b of reciprocy, we’re still left fancyg a iend, -worker, or that cute guy who works at Barn & Noble and whose glance always lgers jt a b too long when you buy a book (and you buy too many bee of said cute guy. You should really stop buyg so many books. Why've you bought this many books?).</p><p>In my md, this repetive pattern occurs for a reason: For queer people, the fns of iendships and relatnships aren’t as formulaic or okie-cutter as for our heterosexual pals, and that’s bee the distctns between platonic and romantic love don’t que f queer experienc.</p><div class="Contaer-bkChBi byNLHx"></div><p>As signaled by Twter er @noonbary, the fns of “love” are born om heteronormativy (bee, as we know, straight culture is all about prcribg to bari). We first learn about the nstrictns as teenagers cshg on unavailable straight guys, and the gut-wrenchg and soul-breakg fatuatns, more often than not, end drenched disappotment, rejectn, and pangs of lonels. It’s bee heteronormative society teach that if you have romantic feelgs for someone, you should act some way upon them, and the suatns gays rarely n.</p><div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--article-mid-ntent" role="prentatn" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-un__slot nsumer-marketg-un__slot--article-mid-ntent nsumer-marketg-un__slot---ntent"></div><div class="journey-un"></div></div></div><p>Now, I’m not advotg for gay people to keep their romantic clatns to themselv. In fact, que the oppose. It’s jt that LGBTQ people are often tght their sir are shameful, so our twg of attractn or the flutterg of butterfli are supprsed until they mutate, beg self-doubt as we blame ourselv for not beg able to keep our feelgs check (as if that were actually possible).</p><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad---ntent"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot---ntent" data-no-id="uf7hfc"></div></div><p>Still, acrdg to social psychologist Roy F. Bmeister, unrequed love (if you want to ll that) affects 98 percent of all people, so what mak queers so different here? Well, the straight world—I, wh my <em>very</em> limed knowledge, believe—you don’t go out searchg for people whose sexuali might mirror your own bee you don’t have to; straight people are already fuckg everywhere. It’s why LGBTQ people obss over any form of reprentatn and why, as soon as <em>one</em> gay person is nice to , we assume that we’re love wh them and meant to spend the rt of our liv together like somethg om a Nora Ephron movie.</p></div></div></div><div class="GridItem-buujkM fVLMby grid--em grid-layout__asi"><div class="StickyBoxWrapper-jfYB kNleGZ sticky-box"><div class="StickyBoxPrimary-dzWDWL cdhYoN sticky-box__primary"><div class="Contaer-bkChBi byNLHx"></div><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--rail"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--rail" data-no-id="b9pre9"></div></div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--display-rail" role="prentatn" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-un__slot nsumer-marketg-un__slot--display-rail"></div><div class="journey-un"></div></div></div><div class="StickyBoxPlaceholr-grPmrg dxAvXx"></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="b50v9p"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK kHBDeH grid grid-margs grid-ems-2 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bjczjj grid-layout--adrail narrow wi-adrail"><div class="GridItem-buujkM stRKV grid--em grid-layout__ntent"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa edvONh body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p>The latter falls directly to the “do I want to be wh them or do I jt want to be them” nundm and why, perhaps, romantic and platonic love is a dichotomy not f for queer nsumptn. Almost every time I’ve formed a ep and supportive iendship wh someone else who’s also gay, I’ve had to wonr where my feelgs lie: Do I fancy them or don’t I? Ultimately, ’s not so black and whe. Of urse, if you like boys and your bt iend is a boy and that boy is hot and you want to bone said boy, then that might signal that you maybe fd them attractive. But when a relatnship is about more than jt sexual attractn or a quick fuck, the mutiae of queer attachment is more plited.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-1 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p>From my experienc, the distctns of love weren’t two-sid; they were blurry and multifaceted. I had an attractn to the people, sure, but that attractn stemmed om their return of affectns, om their kdns, and bee they rpected, unrstood, and lived somethg ak to my own queer experience.</p><p>There was also, I’ll adm eely, an element of emulatn; I wanted to be jt like them bee of their succs/attractivens/abily to pick up guys. Gay people don’t always have role mols to look up to, so we turn to our iends and those around and try and live as they do.</p><p>Do all this mean that I loved them or that I was love wh them? Perhaps ’s both. The balance of attractn might be hard to get right, but I thk that’s bee, as LGBTQ people, we’re also programmed wh the same heteronormative nstcts about platonic and romantic love when they don’t align wh . Thankfully, we don’t have to live by those l.</p><p>You see, feelgs are never as clear-cut as heterosexuals would like you to believe, and our iendships don’t need to mirror those of the girls om <em>Sex and the Cy</em> or a “bromance” om whatever realy-TV show MTV is peddlg. Instead, ridg around the middle ground, the gray area, takg a break to explore all the nflictg and joyful nfn, the ebb and flow of human nature, n be a blsg. Really, there’s no wrong or right way to navigate your feelgs, pecially when those feelgs don’t nform to perceived normaly.</p><p>All this is an important distctn to make, pecially when gay people do stggle wh so much ternalized shame. It’s time to rip up the hetero lebook for feelgs forever. So learn to embrace your nfg feelgs, and know ’s okay to fl between platonic and romantic love, jt like ’s okay to csh on that straight -worker who always brgs you ffee. As LGBTQ people, we’re able to form unique bonds, and part of this should be beg able to create new forms for iendships, relatnships, and ed love that don’t f to prcribed bari. 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i love my friend but i am not gay

Are you gay? Fd out now by takg what might be the longt 'Am I gay?' tt EVER ma! Answer all 45 qutns hontly and you will get to the tth!

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LONGEST GAY TEST!

* i love my friend but i am not gay *

If you want or need to know if you're gay, jt s yourself down now and answer all 45 of the qutns hontly. As I said already, there are plenty of gay men and women who are not slavishly obssed, and some heterosexual men and women who are. And I got half way through the sentence, stgglg to actually say 'I'm gay" -- before he jt terpted me and said 'You're gay.

We talked about the day I me out as gay to him, and how he'd figured out earlier -- but he stggled to accept for months secret bee he had lived his entire life up to that pot assumg we would be a fay and wantg nothg else.

He told me that me beg gay chang nothg, that he was happy I was fortable enough to share that part of myself wh him. I waed three years at that pot for Anthony to tell me how he felt and he fally did, but when I asked him if he was bisexual or gay he proceed to tell me he was straight yet aga. Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a woman.He said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love.

I'M NOT GAY, BUT I LOVE ANOTHER BOY

In our weekly sex lumn, experts solve datg dilemmas. This week is all about a gay man who lov his wife but wants to stop wantg men. * i love my friend but i am not gay *

There are more than 60 untri wh laws that crimalise same-sex sexual acts acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, cludg Sdi Arabia.'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough".He said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'".When Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3,000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance blossomed.Three years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022. Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos".He relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife."Danny Beard on Same Sex Love and MarriageDanny explor same-sex weddgs, fdg out why upl chose to get married, the challeng unrpng this cisn and what mak the wedd relatnships work.The uple said they now wanted to help people who were not as ee and strive for "equaly for everyone"."Now I'm here a safe place I want to fight for others to be able to marry who they want," Adam said."I'm so lucky but I want everyone else Sdi to marry the one they love whout facg discrimatn and persecutn." Image source, Fay photographImage ptn, Peter McGrah and David Cabreza say they are "very proud" to have been the first same-sex uple married EnglandMore than 40,000 same-sex marriag took place between 2014 and 2020, acrdg to the Office for Natnal StatisticsPeter McGrah and David Cabreza, origally om Stland and the US, ma history when they beme the first same-sex uple to marry England on 29 March 2014.The trailblazers married jt after midnight at Islgton Town Hall.

The uple, who live London, said a "really betiful memory" was on the way home when one of their sons shouted out of the black b wdow to Trafalgar Square, "My dads jt got married" and cheered "Yay, gay marriage"."It was so sweet seeg him so happy," Mr Cabreza said. Your iends, who might already spect that you’re gay, will get to know you on a eper level and likely feel much closer to you. After an hour of so my iend and the mean girl started to kiss and went to a room to get laid but at the end they did NOTHING (beg my iend a virg, same as I) the other hand, class, we ere sharg a puter and dog the thgs we ually do (tease each other, lghg) and someone said we looked gay.

Some days ago we were together the school break (as always) and he admted that he doubted beg straight or gay as a kid, and he said he accintally watched a bizarre ***** movie wh a rather gay endg his father was hidg.

‘I DON’T WANT TO LIKE OTHER MEN’: MY WIFE’S TAKEN ME BACK BUT I N’T STOP BEG GAY

There are lots of reasons why you might want to know if your iend is gay. There are some important thgs that you have to unrstand about this suatn before gog forward, however. Someone's sexualy is highly plex and highly... * i love my friend but i am not gay *

But to actually be lockg ey wh Ellen and hold her, shakg hands as she said, "I'm gay, " on natnal televisn and for the first time, as she has shared outloud that way publicly, was such a profoundly extraordary and timate gift to that moment that I will forever be grateful for. You may want to know if your iend is gay, but there may be a good reason why they're stayg closeted. For example, his fay may be vlently homophobic and by cidg that he's gay, you may out him by accint by treatg him different or implyg somethg whout meang to.

If you're tryg to figure out if your iend is gay bee you want to date him (as a woman), 's important to remember that jt bee he might be terted men don't mean he's not terted women.

One of the theori about why some people are gay has to do wh the hormon that they're exposed to before they're born. The hormone exposure levels may manift actual, physil ways which n be a vague ditor that a guy might be gay.

HOW TO TELL IF YOUR GUY FRIEND IS GAY

Perhaps you have realized you are gay and that you have fallen love wh your iend. You have also probably realized that this is a lot to al wh! You may want to be hont wh your iend about your sexualy as well as your... * i love my friend but i am not gay *

It is possible that your guy iend is not gay but stead falls somewhere else on the Ksey sle of unirns and awomens. Although some people the gay culture may put on a certa voice or a way of speakg, your iend talkg a siar or "effemate" way is still not a very good way to judge.

Everyone n enjoy different thgs; jt like a woman might enjoy watchg football, guys n also enjoy thgs that are more monly associated wh women or the gay muny. The movi he watch and the mic he listens to are also not fair methods to gge if he is straight or gayer than Elton John and Gee Takei put together.

There's the stereotype that if a guy is a good drser or if he spends a bunch of time on his hair, he's gay. Sometim you might assume that jt bee a guy only hangs out wh girls or jt bee his bt iend also seems gay, then he might also be gay. Subtly brg up subjects that show him that you're okay wh your iends beg gay and that he don't need to hi his nature around you.

AS A STRAIGHT MAN, HOW N I POLELY STOP MY GAY IEND FLIRTG WH ME?

Are you qutng your sexualy? Fd out if you’re gay, straight, bisexual, or asexual. Learn what the terms mean and if they apply to you. * i love my friend but i am not gay *

You n talk about another iend that is gay or even jt about someone hypothetilly g out if you don't know someone who's gay. He do a great job of showg people that there's more to gay people than all those offensive stereotyp. This is the bt way to fd out if someone is gay and much ls offensive than makg assumptns about them.

HOW TO TELL A FRIEND YOU'RE GAY AND YOU LOVE THEM

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?... * i love my friend but i am not gay *

Say somethg like, "You know you're stuck wh me as a iend no matter what, but I jt have to ask bee I don't want to make assumptns and e to the wrong nclns: are you gay? Article SummaryXTo tell if your guy iend is gay, notice whether he refers to other guys as attractive, which uld be a sign that he’s gay. Pay attentn to how much he talks about women a romantic or sexual way, sce a lack of tert women uld suggt he’s gay.

For stance, say somethg like, “Not that I md eher way, but I was jt wonrg whether you're gay?

AM I GAY?

So you're the same crappy boat as all people (gay, straight, or bi) who love someone that don't love them back.

I always thought that was my flt that I was gay and that I was gog to my iendship wh her nstantly. Durg that time I jt felt like everythg was wrong wh me, if only I was a boy or if only she was gay or if only I didn't love her etc.. One of my iends who recently me out as gay has started flirtg wh me, even though he knows I’m straight and therefore have no tert him.

No gay man has ever flirted wh me and I don’t know why: I’m iendly, I’m a good listener, I have a sexy, swarthy, stubbly look, part Eugene Levy, part Jo-Jo the Dog-Faced Circ Boy – I’m really que irristible.

HOW TO DEAL WHEN YOUR BT FRIEND IS GAY

But, for some reason, gay men fd me very unappealg – and, to be hont, I’m a ltle once would be nice if a gay man sidled up to me and said, “Shake your bon-bon, I’m a sperado unrneath your wdow. Before you share the romantic feelgs you have toward your iend, you want your iend to know that you are gay. It is bt to jt e right out and say : “Matt, I’m gay” or “Hey, I jt wanted to let you know that I’m gay.

IN LOVE WH MY BT IEND, BUT HE'S GAY

If you haven’t already, is a good ia to tell others that you are gay, too, bis jt your iend. After you tell your iend you’re gay, pay close attentn to their behavr when they’re around you for a while. Conversely, if you fd them movg away om you or not makg eye ntact, they still may be adjtg to you tellg them you’re gay.

I AM NOT GAY

For example, “I have wanted to tell you for a long time, even before you knew I was gay, but I waed bee I didn’t want to drop all the bombshells on you at once. Crisis: 40 Stori Revealg the Personal, Social, and Relig Pa and Trma of Growg Up Gay Ameri Mchell Gold and Mdy Dcker Greenleaf Book Group, LLC, 2008. The Velvet Rage: Overg the Pa of Growg Up Gay a Straight Man’s World Alan Downs Da Capo Prs, 2006.

Article SummaryXTellg a iend that you’re gay and you love them is somethg that you’ll want to do stag so you don’t overwhelm your iend. If there’s one thg I n tell you about wh great thory, as a gay man who took his sweet time g out, ’s havg csh on men who – for the most part – were blissfully unaware of .

We’re tght people are eher gay or straight, that sexualy is a fixed aspect that stays the same over the urse of our liv when actually ’s fluid and chang over time.

HOW GAY ARE YOU?

Whether you’re straight, gay, bicur, heteroflexible or jt workg thgs out, ’s not jt your sexualy that’s lled to qutn when such a csh aris. It works wh gay men too – we don’t fancy all straight men tomatilly and ’s possible for such a csh to be entirely platonic.

While we’re begng to throw off the labels that n rtrict , n be hard for men to exprs themselv emotnally whout beg thought of as gay and s of opprsn has shown that beg gay is viewed by many as ferr. We may believe that to fd another man attractive mak ls of a man – whatever that you don’t want to thk of yourself as gay or bi then don’t.

Also, keep md that havg a csh on a person of the same genr don't tomatilly mean you are gay. Sexual orientatn is more than a qutn of whether you are gay, pansexual, queer, straight, or bisexual.

‘I FELL LOVE WH A GAY MAN AND NEARLY BROKE ME’

In addn, sexual orientatn is not jt about who you have feelgs for, 's also about how you thk of yourself (as, straight, gay, bisexual, pansexual, or somethg else), and how you actually behave. Once you are fortable enough, ask your csh some qutns to see how they feel about the LGBTQ muny or gay folks. You don't have to e right out and ask "How do you feel about LGBTQ dividuals?" Or "Are you gay?" Instead, you n be a ltle more subtle.

17 SIGNS YOU'RE ACTUALLY GAY (AND JT DON'T KNOW IT)

Gay - While this adjective has historilly scribed men who are attracted to other men, the term now is ed to refer to anyone who experienc romantic, emotnal, or physil attractn to people of the same genr. Sce genr inty and sexual orientatn are separate, transgenr people n intify as straight, gay, lbian, bisexual, etc. You may already know that your iend is gay, however, 's important to let them actually say to you.

" If you want to talk about your iend to a parent or guardian, try askg "Would you be okay wh me mentng that you're gay to my parents if me up, or would you prefer that I keep quiet? If you then don't have the nvictn that beg gay is natural and good, you may want to rensir the iendship. Maybe you're over the moon and you'll not only march gay pri paras, but you want to anise some right now!

Acceptance n make a huge different the liv of LGBTQIA (Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer, Intersex, and Asexual) people.

HOW TO GET A MAN (FOR GAY MEN)

Article SummaryXIt might e as a b of a shock to fd out your bt iend is gay, but by supportg them and givg yourself time to get ed to , your iendship n be jt like was.

It probably took a lot of urage for your iend to e out as gay, so tell them that you accept them for who they are to be a good iend. You should also avoid tellg anyone else that your iend is gay, sce should be their cisn who knows. Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love.

There are more than 60 untri wh laws that crimalise same-sex sexual acts acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, cludg Sdi Arabia.

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