Quarantine q&a video is up! Link in bio ?A post shared by J.R. Yussuf (@jryussuf) on In a deeply moving personal essay published by Men’s Health, actor and LGBTQ activist J.R.
Yussuf speaks candidly about the struggles he’s faced as an openly bisexual Black man.Yussuf, who came out to his friends at age 10, writes about something many queer men struggled with as children: being ostracized by kids and adults alike.“As a kid, I’d head on over to friends’ houses, and their parents would look at me a certain way, or not want their son or daughter to associate with me,” he recalls.“I was constantly asked why I talked like a girl by other kids, which led me to hate my voice for the longest time.