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.
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AM I GAY?
* lily i'm gay *
It was a big day store bee Gloria promised Lily she uld ask any qutn she Did you know I'm gay? Well, Le thks 's, Cam, and Mch tried to figure out why Lily thought she was gay. Although Cam thought was possible bee he knew he was gay by his fifth birthday.
MITCHELL: She is not gay. And sce Mch and Cam were gay, then she was. They expla to her beg gay is not a herage.
) The patrons the rtrant asi, Gloria said she need to enjoy the culture of her anctors, but Lily was adamant she was gay.
READ THE 'YEP, I'M GAY' ELLEN DEGENER INTERVIEW FROM 1997
The April 14, 1997, issue of TIME featured a s-down wh the edian, who nfirmed that her s character was gay—and so was she. * lily i'm gay *
MITCHELL: Honey, you're not gay. Hence claimg she was gay; so she uld be more like her dads.
But the fay’s reactn was right out of a handbook, bee beg gay is still related to shame most South Asian South Asian fai the Wt still fd difficult to even talk about sex, and would rather have believe babi are born om holdg hands, let alone discs sexualy outsi of a tradnal heterosexual relatnship. It was around this time she actually found Sgh’s vios and even though they weren’t anythg to do wh beg gay, they were about self-love—exactly what Hunter need at the time. And that’s ually what a lot of LGBTQI South Asians also discs among themselv—how to e out when they’re unsure whether their parents even know what beg gay Nagra, a 34-year-old Canadian wh Punjabi herage, me out to her parents 10 years ago.
The Vanuver illtrator scrib her g out as an “impactful experience”, a nversatn which fished wh her mother givg her the tightt hug of her gay is almost a taboo the subntent—lack of tn, awarens, and the fact that no South Asian public figure, at least no one wh Sgh’s profile, has acknowledged their sexualy. Nagra relled her iend’s g out to his mother, who thought he wanted a sex change when he told her he was Bollywood, which produc hundreds of movi watched by lns around the world, until as recently as this year has never openly clud homosexualy as a part of s ma storyle, but rather only picted facetly through movi like Dostana, starrg the middle of such tightly packed silence, when a world popular role mol like Lilly Sgh forward, she’s almost forcg people to have a much need nversatn.
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A recent high school graduate India, who intifi herself as queer and gay, has been followg Sgh’s vios sce 2013. “If and when I e out, I’ll be able to show my parents that… beg gay don’t stop me om havg all—I n be succsful and have a full life, ” the 18-year-old told, too, thks Sgh’s public acceptance of her bisexualy is “huge” for the muny bee will help give nfince to people tryg to e out to their fai and they n show her as an example of someone livg a pletely normal and succsful life. I didn’t know any other Indian Punjabi gay person then, ” she s ago, Canadian-Indian Director, Deepa Mehta’s movie, Fire, about two women fallg love, was met by vlence and vandalism India.