37 Ways to Say I'm Gay - AUDREY Journal

Contents:

• WHAT WORDS CAN I SAY TO DECLARE THAT I’M GAY?
• HOW TO RPOND WHEN SOMEONE SAYS, 'I'M GAY'
• HOW TO TELL A FRIEND YOU'RE GAY AND YOU LOVE THEM
• I'M GAY
• 37 WAYS TO SAY I'M GAY
• AM I GAY, OR BI?
• AM I GAY? QUIZ – 100% RELIABLE TT

WHAT WORDS CAN I SAY TO DECLARE THAT I’M GAY?

Gay.

HOW TO RPOND WHEN SOMEONE SAYS, 'I'M GAY'

Florida’s furiatg “Don’t Say Gay” law has given new power to an old word. Jt look at the T-shirts and prott signs: “#SayGay” is the new “We’re here. As gay dads at a time when gay fai were still relatively rare, my hband and I felt the prsure to be mol parents.

“But I’m gay! My social media feeds are anythg to go by, most gay men live packs.

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

—I’ve never had as many gay guy iends as the algorhms on my phone seem to expect.

I'M GAY

On the other hand, I have a number of straight iends who have signifintly more gay iends than I do. The iends of me are, you might say, culturally gay— much the way I was once culturally lbian. At one time or another, I’ve heard most of my gay-ish straight iends utter the word faggot, or at least s shorter siblg, fag.

It mak me squirm when I hear a straight person ll someone a faggot, no matter how many gay iends this person may have. It was a step above the icky, patronizg tone of the woman who asked me all serns to be her gay bt iend. ” Soon after, he published his study of early Christian mment ceremoni—Same-Sex Unns Premorn Europe—helpg to lay the groundwork for the morn gay-marriage movement and, ultimately, my own marriage.

Boswell died of AIDS 1994—left for ad not by some townie gay bashers but by an entire natn different to the liv of men who have sex wh Simon 1991Raphael SimonI’ve been lled a faggot more than once, ways that no one would nfe wh flattery. The Republin ernor of California, Pete Wilson, had jt vetoed a bill that would have protected gays and lbians om job discrimatn, and I was a graduate stunt at the Universy of California Irve. Though straight, Sam had many gay admirers.

37 WAYS TO SAY I'M GAY

Or around a uch, as I’d heard another gay graduate stunt had done, to my chagr. I stepped between them, as if I were dng for the part of some new gay superhero. Callg myself a faggot orr to protect a straight iend om beg gay-bashed—heroic, right?

I wasn’t takg a big stand for gay visibily, or even actg selflsly to help my iend. Shame that I was a homosexual, other words. “Isn’t one of those the gay si?

AM I GAY, OR BI?

“But you’re not gay! And by the way, I’m gay.

As turns out, while I was whg to my rosé about all the wokens my hoe, reactnary forc were gatherg, ready to send this untry back to a time when racism wasn’t talked about, trans kids suffered silence, and homophobia had yet to be named. If the “Don’t Say Gay” bill prov anythg, ’s that plenty of people still thk gay is a bad word.

AM I GAY? QUIZ – 100% RELIABLE TT

Bass backs a wi variety of mpaigns and anizatns, cludg the Natnal Space Society, uBid For Hurrine Relief, and the Gay, Lbian and Straight Edutn Network. (Larry Bac/Getty Imag)Sger Ricky Mart ma official this summer: he is gay. "But then my lleague, Aisha Sultan, asked a qutn that I uldn't immediately answer: What is the proper rponse when someone tells you "I'm gay"?

Even though I assumed my fay knew, the end I felt important for them to hear me say is a good chance that a fay member will e to you and say "I'm gay". If someone nfis you that they are gay, simply say: "Thanks for tellg me. Perhaps you have realized you are gay and that you have fallen love wh your iend.

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.