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Contents:

• MEETG YOUR FIRST GAY FRIEND
• WE WERE GAY UNTIL WE MET EACH OTHER: OUR UNUAL HETEROSEXUAL LOVE STORY
• 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
• GAY ST. LOUIS

MEETG YOUR FIRST GAY FRIEND

It's no secret that growg up gay n be a lonely experience.

At tim, many gay men feel as though they're the only on experiencg certa thoughts and feelgs, on that society still often ems abnormal.

So when a gay man first bonds wh someone else who intifi as gay or queer, 's evably a total lightng bolt moment.

WE WERE GAY UNTIL WE MET EACH OTHER: OUR UNUAL HETEROSEXUAL LOVE STORY

I'm no longer close wh my first gay iend, Jam, bee we're very different people now.

But I still remember clumsily g out to him after a Le Tigre ncert and him sayg, "I thk I'm gay, too. " He was hot—I thk everyone thought so—but I didn't thk he was gay.

'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY

Then we started chattg and he said "I'm gay" the most offhand way. He didn't still a sense of ternalized homophobia me, which was important bee I was a mpy gay guy who'd always been teased for beg mpy. " He gave me the permissn to be myself when I didn't even know who that, on DeanI grew up a small nservative town and didn't know anyone gay at school, so I met my first gay iends through social media.

GAY ST. LOUIS

If you've been lookg for a way to meet other OlrGay members near you, you n now schle a meetup to get everyone together.